###### 3.2.5.1.19 frontmatter

The <frontmatter> element contains the material that precedes the main body of a document. It may include items such as an abstract, a preface, and various types of book lists such as a <toc>, <tablelist>, or <figurelist>.

###### Contains

Doctype | Content model
bookmap | (bookabstract or booklists or colophon or dedication or draftintro or notices or preface or topicref or anchorref or keydef or mapref or topicgroup or topichead or topicset or topicsetref) (any number)
learningBookmap | (bookabstract or booklists or colophon or dedication or draftintro or notices or preface or topicref or anchorref or keydef or mapref or topicgroup or topichead or topicset or topicsetref or learningObject or learningGroup) (any number)

###### Contained by

Doctype | Content model
bookmap, learningBookmap | bookmap

###### Inheritance

- map/topicref bookmap/frontmatter

###### Example

See the example in 3.2.5.1.1 bookmap.

###### Attributes

Name | Description | Data Type | Default Value | Required?
query | This attribute is deprecated. It may be removed in the future. | CDATA | #IMPLIED | No
topicref-atts attribute group (collection-type, processing-role, type, scope, locktitle, format, linking, toc, print, search, chunk) | A set of related attributes. See 3.4.1.8 topicref-atts, topicref-atts-no-toc, and topicref-atts-without-format attribute groups. |  |  |
univ-atts attribute group (includes select-atts, id-atts, and localization-atts groups) | A set of related attributes, described in 3.4.1.3 univ-atts attribute group |  |  |
global-atts attribute group (xtrf, xtrc) | A set of related attributes, described in 3.4.1.2 global-atts attribute group |  |  |
class, outputclass, keyref | Class and outputclass are described in 3.4.1.9 Other common DITA attributes |  |  |

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Parent Topic: 3.2.5.1 Bookmap content elements

Sibling Topics:

3.2.5.1.1 bookmap

3.2.5.1.2 abbrevlist

3.2.5.1.3 amendments

3.2.5.1.4 appendices

3.2.5.1.5 appendix

3.2.5.1.6 backmatter

3.2.5.1.7 bibliolist

3.2.5.1.8 bookabstract

3.2.5.1.9 booklibrary

3.2.5.1.10 booklist

3.2.5.1.11 booklists

3.2.5.1.12 booktitle

3.2.5.1.13 booktitlealt

3.2.5.1.14 chapter

3.2.5.1.15 colophon

3.2.5.1.16 dedication

3.2.5.1.17 draftintro

3.2.5.1.18 figurelist

3.2.5.1.20 glossarylist

3.2.5.1.21 indexlist

3.2.5.1.22 mainbooktitle

3.2.5.1.23 notices

3.2.5.1.24 part

3.2.5.1.25 preface

3.2.5.1.26 tablelist

3.2.5.1.27 toc

3.2.5.1.28 trademarklist