# com.bea.ide.sourceeditor.element
ISourceElementGroup Interface

public interface ISourceElementGroup

An ISourceElementGroup is used to indicate that consecutive similar elements may be collapsed together. This is a parallel option to the method by which individual multi-line elements may be collapsed separately.

This interface contains no members. It only exists to differentiate group objects from the `ISourceElement``` objects that are contained within them. `ISourceViewDriver``` has several pairs of methods that take either standard ISourceElements or ISourceElementGroups as parameters.

Commonly, an ISourceViewDriver class will instantiate a single instance for each type of group by calling
`static final ISourceElementGroup group = new ISourceElmentGroup() {};`

Related Topics

``ISourceViewDriver.getElementGroup``