---
title: "registerViewElementClass(_:elementName:)"
framework: tvmlkit
role: symbol
role_heading: Type Method
path: "tvmlkit/tvelementfactory/registerviewelementclass(_:elementname:)"
---

# registerViewElementClass(_:elementName:)

Registers a view element for the specified element name.

## Declaration

```swift
class func registerViewElementClass(_ elementClass: AnyClass, elementName: String)
```

## Parameters

- `elementClass`: The class of the element.
- `elementName`: The element name used when referencing this element within TVML.

## Mentioned in

Creating TVML Elements

## Discussion

Discussion The TVViewElement class represents a read-only DOM node along with its attributes and aggregated style. This model object is traversed by the interface factory to construct views and view controllers, and to render templates. You must call this method for each element you register.