Hi,

I'm evaluating the latest HTML Editor (Version 12 Build 375). Here are some suggestions:

1. In the Footer snippet include the Copyright symbol character © so that those of us that can never remember the code don't have to hunt for it.

2. The display of the trademark character in the Characters tab (in the Char column) is incorrect. It shows as a Prime rather than a trademark symbol. It inserts the correct code, though.

3. Under the Characters tab, please include the apostrophe character. I know it doesn't have an HTML tag name (it's ') so it doesn't exactly fit, but I keep needing it, and I have a mental block that prevents me from learning it!

4. The dialog that pops up when a New From Quick Start is activated, includes Horizontal Position, Vertical Position and such, yet it seems to have no effect on the ensuing code. No centering style, not even a center tag, or a div block! This "feature", as cool as it potentially is, appears to be useless.

5. The code highlighting engine isn't smart enough to tell the difference between a real HTML comment and block of CSS code placed inside commenting elements for backward compatibility -- though, I just discovered that if you add a carriage return after the closing style tag the CSS highlighting turns on--weird. Also, if you type in the CSS block by hand the code highlighting works correctly. It's only when the New From Quick Start generates the CSS block.

6. Under the Characters tab, the lowercase chi symbol is incorrectly represented in the "Char" column. It inserts the correct code, though.

Hi

After being toying around with HTML Editor 12 I have come up with a few improvements for HTML Editor 13 which I’m quite sure many of you would appreciate:

1. Auto completion: make the cursor place itself between the start and closing tag ie. <tag></tag> if the <>\ button+SHIFT (I don’t know what it is called !) is pressed – by hitting the <>\ button+SHIFT I indicate that I don’t want to specify any further parameter within the tag.

2. Auto completion: make the it so smart that it will assume that it is the <li><li/> tag I want while I’m making a list and already have used the tag in the line above it – if you are confused then please download WebMatrix and see how it does it !

3. Highlight a start and closing tag when the cursor is placed in it.

4. Keyboard shortcut for F5 for previewing in the default browser – IMO, CTRL+F9 is quite cumbersome to use !

5. Collapsible codeblocks – ability to show hide blocks of code would help getting a better overview – see image

6. Vertical lines – a little hard to explain, but they also help ! – see image

7. Make SHIFT+TAB move the cursor five places to the left.

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Hi

After starting a new project I began to make my stylesheet, but the thing is I cannot remember all those hex values for the colors in my head, so I came up with yet another idea for a cool feature for the next version of HTML Editor - please look at the image:

http://img819.imageshack.us/img819/2486/csscolorpick.png

Here is how I would like it to work:

When a user write the # then this will make the colorpicker - if the user write a character more than the # (for example the letter f) then the list will find all the colors starting with the hex value of F and so on.

Now, those of you who are CSS gurus might point out that my idea have a flaw ! - what if for example the user write an # (id tag) then the colorpicker will show up (and potentially ruin your day !).

Well, fear not as I'm sure that the great CoffeeCup guys will make sure that the colorpicker will only show up if the # was made between a pair of curly brackets { # }

couple things I'm missing as I work:

1. Being able to right click and select the full tag.
2. Highlighting text and being able to add a tag around it. (ex. creating a table, I past the entire row of info and select each item to add a td around it) ** DONE **
3. Being able to create/edit my own keyboard shortcuts
4. Having the autocomplete work with out my having to click tab before I type the while thing. When I complete <td>, </td> should be auto-added. ** DONE **
5. Being able to ctrl+dbl click a tag and select the full tag
6. Being able to reverse tab using Shift+Tab
7. Being able to just click the save btn to save instead of choosing from the pull down (I know I can ctrlS, but sometimes I have a coffee in my other hand) ** Can add button to toolbar **
8. Being able to see two folders in the left bar, maybe a My Computer2 tab.

Please let me know if I just missed some of these, I am still kinda new to this - still attached to my woobie (homesite).

ERIC RESSNER SAYS:

I thought this surely was a feature of Projects in HTML Editor. But I couldn't find it in the menus, and search as I might, not here on the forum either.

I want to be able to specify a different default images folder for each Website Project. When I click on the "Image" tool button in Code Editor to add an image to my HTML, it always starts me out in c:\Program Files\CoffeeCup. Now, I admit that *is* the default images folder setting in Preferences. But I need to be able to set a different default for each project.

If that doesn't make sense, could you kindly explain what that's not a good idea?

BTW, using HTML Editor 2010 SE, build 365.

Thanks.

Guys
Am I stupid or does the HTML Split Screen Preview not enable you to highlight or select something in the preview window and move the code screen to that point. I have searched for hours and just cannot make it do that. I cannot believe such a simple and common functionality is missing from this paid for program so I must be missing something. I am using Kompozer to edit pages where I know I have many edits to do because it is soooooooo much easier to just change the text as it shows you the HTML to edit when you highlight in the preview window. Could you tell me how to do this in the HTML Editor PLEASE!
Ian

*** DONE ***

SuperRabbit said:


I second that! -- There was a button in HomeSite (and similarly in DreamWeaver) that would recalculate the width and height if those had changed. Very handy, if an image had been edited, so you didn't wind up with scaled or aspect-ratio squashed/stretched images.
*** DONE *** Double click an image in the file tree and it automatically enters all the code for you

Naturally, there are other times when you might want to scale an image (typically, leaving the aspect ratio intact).

A more specialized case, probably better done with CSS3, is when you might want to clip an image to show only a portion of it.

I *do* like the HTML Editor's handy ability to create a thumbnail automatically, and link to the full-size image. Very useful! However, I have found that it would be nice to do that in batches for a whole folder. Another handy thing would be for the thumbnail creator to keep a desired thumbnail size in mind, so that, for instance, if I have a folder of images, which might vary in dimensions, then I'd want the thumbnails scaled to the closest width and height to fit a desired thumbnail cell, in other words, less than or equal to ideal_x and ideal_y, where the ratio of x to y scales to fit the aspect ratio of each image.

There are two other things I wish CCHE could do:

1. I would like it to offer the easy choice of making a new plain old text file, .txt. I greatly prefer using a text editor like CoffeeCup's HTML Editor instead of Notepad or Word Pad, and there are lots of times when writing notes or editing other plain text files are needed while working on web pages.

2. I sure wish the CCHE would automatically recognize .svg images as, well, both images that can be placed, and source code files that can be opened and edited. Yes, for the latter, a program like Inkscape might be the best choice, but I'm not yet familiar with it. But there are times when it might be handy, once I feel I know my way around SVG, to work with it in the HTML Editor too.

(And I really, really miss Freehand!) (Illustrator and suite = big, big $$$, which is why I was so glad when a friend suggested CoffeeCup and I discovered what a good program it is.)

Hello,
I own your HTML editor for years now, but only started to use it this week.
Reason, Arachnophobia (the very old one) worked well until now.
But Your HTML editor is great. I only found some things that can be better.

When opened several files end replacing something in all open files I like to see how many replacements were made. So I can check whether all changes where made. ** DONE **

The search and replace option needs to be filled in each time I use it. Why not keeping the search and replace phrase for the next search? That's easy when replacing test1 for Tast1, and then test2 for Tast2, and so on. One than only has to change the figure.

The file open option should keep the map in mind while working in the same map. So each time I open another file from the same website I am working on, I do'nt have to open the map each time.

Are there translation on this software? When possible I like to work in Dutch.

Kind regards,
Hans M. Roeper

I am sure breadcrumb navigation is easy to make, but I do not know how to to do it. I see that it is used on coffeecup.com but I do not see it anywhere on the EditorHelp.pdf file and do not see it Snippets nor the Code inside CCHE. Also I do not see it anywhere in the forums either.

My suggestion is to put that in CCHE, somewhere easy to find, and title it breadcrumbs or make your own and call it coffee grinds