Adobe Extending Dreamweaver CS4 - Manual (Page 68)

62 EXTENDING DREAMWEAVER CS4
Customizing Code view
This leaves an editable region name that can be as many as 74 characters, which is the maximum of 100 characters
minus 26.
Scheme precedence
Dreamweaver uses the following algorithm to color text syntax in Code view:
1 Dreamweaver determines the initial syntax scheme based on the document type of the current file. The file
document type is matched against the
scheme.documentType attribute. If no match is found, the scheme where
scheme.documentType = "Text" is used.
2 Schemes can be nested if they specify blockStart … blockEnd pairs. All nestable schemes that have the current
file extension listed in one of the blockStart.doctypes attribute are enabled for the current file and all others are
disabled.
Note: All
blockStart/blockEnd combinations should be unique.
Schemes can nest within another scheme only if the scheme.priority is equal to or greater than the outer scheme.
If the priority is equal, the scheme can nest only in the body state of the outer scheme. For example, the
... block can nest only inside the ... block where tags are legal—not inside
a tag, attribute, string, comment, and so on.
Schemes with a higher priority than the outer scheme can nest almost anywhere within the outer scheme. For
example, in addition to nesting in the body state of the
... block, the <%...%> block can also nest
inside a tag, attribute, string, comment, and so on.
The maximum nesting level is 4.
3 When matching blockStart strings, Dreamweaver always uses the longest match.
4 After reaching the blockEnd string for the current scheme, syntax coloring returns to the state where the
blockStart string is detected. For example, if a <%...%> block is found within an HTML string, then coloring
resumes with the HTML string color.