Hi
I have been looking for a code editor, because I would like to learn to read as well as editing HTML. I have been looking at various code editors and so far the HTML Editor seems to more than fulfill my needs - and I'll guess that I'll purchase it once my trail period expires.
However, there is one issue which I find quite annoying and that is that the HTML Editor don't highlight start- and end-tag ie. <tag>[something goes here]</tag> when you hover the mouse pointer on top of it.
I have seen this in a video demonstration on youtube for another editor called Bluefish (which is not recommended to try and install if you're A) using Windows B) not used to solving problems)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r370JvinLuw
Also, i have found a post (from 2009) in thread for HTML Editor where a user asks for this feature, so there seems to be some desire have this from the userbase.
There is also another feature I would very much like to see when the intellisense is active and that is a small description telling me what a particular parameter can be used for - the video I have linked to is also demonstrating this which looks very nice indeed.
Lastly, I have experienced something odd when copy and pasting a piece of code from w3schools into the HTML Editor
Please try and paste the code from the 'HTML Layouts - Using Div Elements'-section http://www.w3schools.com/html/html_layout.asp into the HTML Editor and look at the bottom where it says:
Copyright © 2011 W3Schools.com
when I copy and paste into HTML Editor I get:
Copyright © 2011 W3Schools.com
Question: where does the  come from ?
The HTML Editor requests
Viking
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david wilson
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Good suggestions, to address your mysterious symbol issue, this is probably related to use of a copyright symbol rather than the preferred © method.
Selecting the characters tab in the editor will bring up a whole host of special characters that you can insert into your html code.
Selecting the characters tab in the editor will bring up a whole host of special characters that you can insert into your html code.
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Jim Cantrell
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If all else fails and you are using iso-8859-1 doctype then you can use © for the copyright symbol.
You could also try using the utf-8 charaset in your heading tags as below.
<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN"
"http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd">
<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" xml:lang="en" lang="en">
<!-- Created on: 15/12/2008 -->
<head>
<title>Page Title</title>
<meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html;charset=utf-8" />
You could also try using the utf-8 charaset in your heading tags as below.
<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN"
"http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd">
<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" xml:lang="en" lang="en">
<!-- Created on: 15/12/2008 -->
<head>
<title>Page Title</title>
<meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html;charset=utf-8" />
Jim
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Viking
Registered User
32 posts
Hi
Thank you for helping out - it turns out that adding <meta charset="utf-8"> between the <head></head> tag was all it took to render the page properly - guess I learned a little here !
@david wilson
I'm glad to see that you liked my suggestions - all I can hope for is that the Coffee-guys too think this would be awesome to have in their product.
Thank you for helping out - it turns out that adding <meta charset="utf-8"> between the <head></head> tag was all it took to render the page properly - guess I learned a little here !
@david wilson
I'm glad to see that you liked my suggestions - all I can hope for is that the Coffee-guys too think this would be awesome to have in their product.
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