how to in DWMX.

sijis

I'm sure its an easy answer, but i dunno it.

While in code view when you start to code in HTML or php, you get this drop down menu with possible options as to which tag you are trying to hand code, from there you can select the tag and as you continue to code it keeps popping up. (i believe it called "code hints").

either way, if you click on something else then go back to coding that line, it never comes up again, unless you start a new HTML tag (eg: <ta 'for <table>'.
What key do i press or how can i manually get that back? It just makes life easier 🙂

thanks.

ohh yeah, its the first image on this site:
http://www.macromedia.com/software/dreamweaver/productinfo/features/mx/03code_editing_support.html

jstarkey

Most editors are the same way, AFAIK. I usually just delete the last char I typed and retype it and the drop down will come up again.

I'm not in Windows right now, so I can't test it.

sijis

i understand i can do that, but what if i finish the tag and its attributes, then i want to go back and insert another one?
sometimes it comes up again, other times it doesnt.

there isn't a 'hot key' of sorts like F4 or something that will make it pop up on demand?

thanks.

mzanimephp

Hi, you are talking about the Code Hints popup box.

I don't think there is a hotkey to make it popup at anytime, but I'm not sure. I know for a fact that it is supposed to give you a list of tags which will work with whatever element you are working with in design view ONLY.

As long as you've got your mouse inside the element you want to work with, it should popup, if it doesn't just hit your space bar - so it'll know you want to add a new attribute.

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The "hints" that it shows you are most likely taken from Dreamweavers tag library... (Preferences > Code Hints > Tag Library Editor) Persoanally I would not screw with this, but if you are using some custom tags which you use often, which the code hints popup isn't showing - you can always add them to DWMX yourself 🙂

Also too, DWMX doesn't recognise the ".php3" extension by default, but you can make Dreamweaver read this as a PHP file as well, if you know how to get to the XML files.

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It'd be nice if we had this little code hints box in WYSIWIG view too, but oh well. Maybe next version.