Inheritance of attribute values

The series of notes in this section of aTbRef describe how inheritance of attribute values works in Tinderbox as this can be confusing for those beginning to use Tinderbox.

Gaining a working understanding of the process is a solid step towards deeper use of the program.

• Attribute value inheritance flows downwards
• Inheritance for Intrinsic or Read-only attributes
• Inheritance is not based on the actual outline of your data
• The Inheritance Cascade
• Inheritance and prototypes

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See also—notes linking to here:

• Setting or resetting an attribute's document-level default value
• What are Displayed Attributes?
• Prototypes
• Parentheses: attribute 'offset' references (offset addressing)