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Developing Controls
You can create own content for OpenUI5. To develop controls in JavaScript, you can either
extend existing controls or create new ones.
Note: If you want to contribute to OpenUI5, you have to consider our guidelines and recommendations with
regard to, for example, product standards, file names and encoding.

As a control developer, you create or modify UI libraries and their pieces, i.e. controls and
types. You define the set of properties your control provides as well as events or
aggregations. A major task is the implementation of a control-specific renderer, which
knows how to create suitable HTML markup for a given control instance, taking its current
state into account. A renderer is written in JavaScript and produces HTML output which is
styled by means of CSS. Such style sheets are another important part of a UI library.
Controls can be defined on the fly without a library definition or running generation steps.
These controls are also called notepad controls.
When you want to develop several controls for reuse in different applications, we
recommend creating a control library instead of using these notepad controls. Control
libraries have additional features such as automatic support for theming and right-to-left
languages, but the implementation of the controls is the same as for notepad controls.
Note: This functionality is not restricted to controls. It can also be used to create or extend arbitrary objects, such
as components, that are derived from sap.ui.base.ManagedObject . For more information, see API
Reference: sap.ui.base.ManagedObject.