# `Surface.AST.Attribute`
[🔗](https://github.com/surface-ui/surface/blob/v0.12.3/lib/surface/ast.ex#L226)

An AST node representing an attribute or property

## Properties
    * `:type` - an atom representing the type of attribute. See Surface.API for the list of supported types
    * `:type_opts` - a keyword list of options for the type
    * `:name` - the name of the attribute (e.g. `:class`)
    * `:root` - true if the attribute was defined using root notation `{ ... }`. Root attributes won't have `name`.
    * `:value` - a list of nodes that can be concatenated to form the value for this attribute. Potentially contains dynamic data
    * `:meta` - compilation meta data

# `t`
[🔗](https://github.com/surface-ui/surface/blob/v0.12.3/lib/surface/ast.ex#L240)

```elixir
@type t() :: %Surface.AST.Attribute{
  meta: Surface.AST.Meta.t(),
  name: atom() | nil,
  root: boolean() | nil,
  type: atom() | nil,
  type_opts: keyword() | nil,
  value: Surface.AST.Literal.t() | Surface.AST.AttributeExpr.t()
}
```

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*Consult [api-reference.md](api-reference.md) for complete listing*