Conventions Used In This Guide - MACROMEDIA DREAMWEAVER 8-DREAMWEAVER API Reference

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 book'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
when you are writing code. This manual uses the full
dw.funcname
when defining the function and in the index. Many examples use the
The following naming conventions are used in this guide:
You—the developer who is responsible for writing extensions
The user—the person using Dreamweaver
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) indicates that a long line of code has been broken across two
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dreamweaver.funcname
can be abbreviated to
dreamweaver.
prefix, however.
dw.
prefix