Item properties and OnItemLoad

- [Instructor] Repeaters are my favorite tool in Axure…because they're so flexible.…They can be used to prototype just about anything.…They work really well for building interactive data tables…and product listings and things like that.…Those are some of the common cases…where you'll want to use repeaters.…But you can also use repeaters to build reusable components,…like drop-downs and side-bars,…and things like that.…As well as incredibly realistic components…like predictive search…and drag-and-drop interfaces that really work.…The key to being able to use repeaters to prototype anything…you want is to really understand how the repeaters'…item properties work.…

Specifically, how they work inside the on-item-load event.…So that's what we'll be digging into now…because it's the foundation of everything else…we'll want to do with repeaters.…The basic idea of a repeater is that there's a set…of widgets that acts like a template,…and that set of widgets…gets paired up with a data set.…When the repeater loads up, Axure creates copies of all…