Code Coloring; Code Coloring Files - MACROMEDIA DREAMWEAVER MX 2004-EXTENDING DREAMWEAVER Manual

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Code coloring

Dreamweaver lets you customize or extend the code coloring schemes that you see in Code view
so that you can add new keywords to a scheme or add code coloring schemes for new document
types. If you develop JavaScript functions to use in your client-side script, for example, you can
add the names of these functions to the keywords section so that they display in the color that is
specified in Preferences. Likewise, if you develop a new programming language for an application
server and you want to distribute a new document type to help Dreamweaver users build pages
with it, you could add a code coloring scheme for the document type.
Dreamweaver provides the JavaScript function
enables you to reload code coloring XML files that might have been edited manually. For more
information on this function, see the Dreamweaver API Reference.
To update a code coloring scheme or add a new scheme, you must modify the code coloring
definition files.

Code coloring files

Dreamweaver defines code coloring styles and schemes in XML files that reside in the
Configuration/CodeColoring folder. A code coloring style file defines styles for fields that are
defined in syntax definitions. It has a root node of
defines code coloring syntax and has a root node of
The code coloring style file that Dreamweaver provides is Colors.xml. The code coloring syntax
files that Dreamweaver provides are CodeColoring.xml, ASP JavaScript.xml, ASP VBScript.xml,
ASP.NET CSharp.xml, and ASP.NET VB.xml.
Note: The code coloring in the following examples does not appear on a black and white printed
page. To see the code coloring in these examples, see Dreamweaver Help > Extensions > Extending
Dreamweaver or see the PDF file for Extending Dreamweaver in the Documentation folder on your
installation CD.
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. A code coloring scheme file
<codeColors>
<codeColoring>
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