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Customizing Code view
Container
The
menugroup tag.
Example
Description
This tag describes a single pop-up menu. Dreamweaver opens the menu whenever the user types the last character of
the string of the pattern attribute. For example, the menu that shows the contents of a Session variable could have a
pattern attribute that is equal to "
Session. ".
Attributes
pattern , doctypes , casesensitive , classpattern , displayrestriction
• The pattern attribute specifies the pattern of typed characters that cause Dreamweaver to open the code hints
menu. If the first character of the pattern is a letter, number, or underscore, Dreamweaver displays the menu only
if the character that precedes the pattern in the document is not a letter, number, or underscore. For example, if the
pattern is "
Session. ", Dreamweaver does not display the menu if the user types " my_Session. ".
• The doctypes attribute specifies that the menu is active only for the specified document types. This attribute lets
you specify different lists of function names for ASP-JavaScript (ASP-JS), Java Server Pages (JSP), Adobe
ColdFusion, and so on. You can specify the
doctypes attribute as a comma-separated list of document type IDs.
See the Dreamweaver Configuration/Documenttypes/MMDocumentTypes.xml file for a list of Dreamweaver
document types.
• The casesensitive attribute specifies whether the pattern is case-sensitive. The possible values for the
casesensitive attribute are true , false , or a subset of the comma-separated list that you specify for the
doctypes attribute. The list of document types lets you specify that the pattern is case-sensitive for some document
types, but not for others. The value defaults to false if you omit this attribute. If the casesensitive attribute is a
value of true , the code hints menu opens only if the text that the user types exactly match the pattern that the
pattern attribute specifies. If the casesensitive attribute is a value of false , the menu appears even if the pattern
is lowercase and the text is uppercase.
• The classpattern attribute associates the class member list with the class.
• The displayrestriction attribute is used to restrict the code hinting menu to a specific programming language
syntax block based on color coding schemes defined in CodeColoring.xml. For example, if displayrestriction =
"JavaScript" , then the code hinting menu is restricted to JavaScript syntax block.
Contents
The
menuitem tag.
Container
The
menugroup tag.
Example