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• specifies a delimiter that marks the end of a string-delimited tag. This attribute is required if
end_string
is specified.
start_string
•
detect_in_attribute
between opening and closing tags if those strings are not defined) even when those strings appear inside attribute
names or values. You should generally set this to
example, ASP tags sometimes appear inside attribute values, and sometimes contain quotation marks ("). Because
the ASP tag specification specifies
including the internal quotation marks, when they appear inside attribute values.
•
indicates whether to parse the attributes of the tag. If this is set to
parse_attributes
Dreamweaver parses the attributes; if it's set to
angle bracket that appears outside quotation marks. For example, this attribute should be set to
such as (as in
cfif <cfif a is 1>
•
specifies the path and filename of the icon associated with the tag. This attribute is required for empty tags,
icon
and for nonempty tags whose contents do not appear in the Document window's Design view.
• specifies the width of the icon in pixels.
icon_width
• specifies the height of the icon in pixels.
icon_height
•
specifies simple HTML equivalents for certain ColdFusion form-related tags. This is not
equivalent_tag
intended for use with other tags.
• indicates whether the tag has a direct visual effect on the page. For example, the ColdFusion tag
is_visual
doesn't specify a value for
cfgraph
specified as having
is_visual
Elements category of the Preferences dialog box; visibility for visual server markup tags can be set independently
of visibility for nonvisual server markup tags.
• , if specified, indicates that the
server_model
server model. If
server_model
for ASP and JSP tags are the same, but the
Dreamweaver encounters code with the appropriate delimiters on a JSP page, it displays a JSP icon. When it
encounters such code on a non-JSP page, it displays an ASP icon.
Contents
None (empty tag).
Container
None.
Example
<tagspec tag_name="happy" tag_type="nonempty" render_contents="false" content_model=
"marker_model" icon="happy.gif" icon_width="18" icon_height="18"></tagspec>
How custom tags appear in the Design view
The way that custom tags appear in the Design view of the Document window depends on the values of the
and
tag_type render_contents
specified in the attribute appears. If the value of
icon
is , the icon appears as it would for an empty tag. The following example shows how an instance of the
"false"
tag defined earlier might appear in the HTML:
indicates whether to ignore everything between
"true"
detect_in_attribute="true"
"false"
, which Dreamweaver cannot parse as a set of attribute name/value pairs).
(so the value defaults to
is_visual
set to . Visibility for server markup tags is controlled by the Invisible
"false"
tagspec
is not specified, the
tagspec
attributes of the
tagspec
start_string
for string-delimited tags. The default is
, Dreamweaver ignores the ASP tags,
, Dreamweaver ignores everything until the next closing
"true"
tag applies only on pages that belong to the specified
tag applies on all pages. For example, the delimiters
tagspec
tag for JSP specifies a
server_model
tag. If the value of
tag_type
is
tag_type "nonempty"
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and
end_string
"false"
(the default),
"true"
"false"
); the ColdFusion tag
cfset
of , so when
"JSP"
is , the icon
"empty"
but the value of
render_contents
10
(or
. For
for a tag
is
happy