Conventions Used In This Guide - MACROMEDIA DREAMWEAVER 8-EXTENDING DREAMWEAVER Manual

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Conventions used in this guide

The following typographical conventions are used in this guide:
font indicates code fragments and API literals, including class names, method
Code
names, function names, type names, scripts, SQL statements, and both HTML and XML
tag and attribute names.
font indicates replaceable items in code.
Italic code
The continuation symbol (
or more lines. Due to margin limits in this guide's format, what is otherwise a continuous
line of code must be split. When copying the lines of code, eliminate the continuation
symbol, and type the lines as one line.
Curly braces ({ }) that surround a function argument indicate that the argument is
optional.
Function names that have the prefix
abbreviated to
dw.funcname
prefix when defining the function and in the index. Many examples use
dreamweaver.
the shorter
prefix, however.
dw.
The following naming conventions are used in this guide:
You—the developer who is responsible for writing extensions
The user—the person using Dreamweaver
The visitor—the person who views the web page that the user created
) indicates that a long line of code has been broken across two
¬
dreamweaver.
when you are writing code. This manual uses the full
as in
dreamweaver.funcname
Conventions used in this guide
, can be
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