Working With Browser Profiles; About Browser-Profile Formatting - MACROMEDIA DREAMWEAVER MX 2004-EXTENDING DREAMWEAVER Manual

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Working with browser profiles

Browser profiles are the files Dreamweaver uses to check your documents when you run a target
browser check (see Dreamweaver Help [Help > Using Dreamweaver]). Each profile contains
information about the HTML tags and attributes that a particular browser supports. A browser
profile can also contain warnings, error messages, and suggestions for tag substitutions.
Browser profiles are stored in the Configuration/BrowserProfiles folder in the Dreamweaver
application folder. You can edit existing profiles or create new ones using Dreamweaver or a text
editor. It is not necessary to quit Dreamweaver before editing or creating browser profiles.

About browser-profile formatting

Browser profiles follow a specific format. To avoid parsing errors during target browser checks,
follow these rules when editing or creating profiles:
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The first line is reserved for the name of the profile. It must be followed by a single carriage
return. The name on this line appears in the Target Browser Check dialog box and in the target
check report. It must be unique.
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The second line is reserved for the designator
Dreamweaver uses this line to determine which documents are browser profiles. Do not change
or move this line.
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Two hyphens (--) at the beginning of a line indicate a comment (that is, the line is ignored
during the target check process). A comment must start at the beginning of a line—you can't
put two hyphens in the middle of a line.
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You must use a space in the following places:
Before the closing angle bracket (>) on the
After the opening parentheses in a list of values for an attribute
Before a closing parentheses in a list of values
Before and after each pipe (|) in a list of values.
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You must include an exclamation point (!) without a space before each of the following words:
,
ELEMENT ATTLIST
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You can include
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messages can contain only plain text.
!msg
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HTML comments (
with parsing. Dreamweaver does not report an error for comments because all browsers
support them.
, , and (
Error msg ELEMENT
, , and
!Error !Warning
) cannot be listed as tags in browser profiles because they interfere
!---->
PROFILE_TYPE=BROWSER_PROFILE
line
!ELEMENT
, ,
!ATTLIST !Error
within the
!Info !ELEMENT
Working with browser profiles
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, ).
!msg
or the area.
!ATTLIST
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