Mastering ArcGIS Server Development with JavaScript

InfoTemplates

InfoTemplates, as we mentioned in Chapter 1, Your First Mapping Application, describe how you want to display data in a popup. The InfoTemplate can be constructed using two strings, the title and the content. The title and content strings represent HTML templates, and you can substitute graphic attributes in the template. For a graphic's infoTemplate, if you wanted to display the graphic's total attribute, you would insert the value in the template with a ${total}, which shows the field name inserted inside the brackets of the substitution string ${}.

If you want to display a popup containing all the name/value pairs in the graphic's attributes, you can use a wildcard ${*} in the content value, as follows:

graphic.infoTemplate = new ...