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Preferences Dialog



Colors & Layout

This figure shows IDE artifacts added to the Preferences dialog. The color preferences on this main preferences page should be self-explanatory. When Use soft tab is checked, HTML, XML, JSP and CSS editors put space of specified number by Soft tab width instead of tab charactor. The Editor Type preferences control whether, while editing an HTML or JSP page, the source and preview panes are displayed as tabs, as split panes, or don't display.



Code Assist

Code Assist preferences allow you to control some aspects of code completion.



CSS Editor

CSS Editor preferences allow to you to configure the CSS editor colors.



DTD / XML Schema

DTD preferences allow you to manage the DTDs with which you work.

Usually when an XML document with a DTD declaration is opened in the XML Editor, the editor uses the DTD at the URI to provide validation and code-completion. However, if you want to use an alternate, local, DTD for a declaration referring to one at a remote URI, the Add Local DTD section let's you do just that: click the Add button, and enter the URI and the path to the local copy of the DTD you want to use.

Note: in a DTD declaration such as:

	<!DOCTYPE faces-config PUBLIC 
		"-//Sun Microsystems, Inc.//DTD JavaServer Faces Config 1.1//EN" 
		"http://java.sun.com/dtd/web-facesconfig_1_1.dtd">
faces-config is the name of the DTD's root element, "-//Sun ..." is its ID, and the "http:// ..." part is its URI.

The checkbox for Cache remote DTD to local directory lets you avoid repeatedly fetching a remote DTD. When checked, DTDs whose URI is not already specified in the Add Local DTD section are cached to a local file the first time they are accessed, then read from that file thereafter.

Note: once a DTD is cached locally, the remote DTD is no longer consulted and the cached copy is not updated even if the remote one changes.



JSF

JSF preferences allow you to manage JSP templates. You can choose these templates in the JSP creation wizard.



JSP

JSP Editor preferences allow to you to configure the JSP editor colors.



TLD

TLD preferences allow you to manage the TLDs.

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