ColdFusion Builder - HTML Colorization

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In ColdFusion Builder HTML colors can be customized through Preferences->HTML-Editors->HTML->Colors preference page.

HTML colorization affects all HTML tags in a generic way and to set color for individual tags (like Table or Form tags) is not possible.

Here is colorization file to change HTML colors similar to that of Dreamweaver. Since all Dreamweaver colorization option are not exactly mapped to HTML colorization, it tries to match Dreamweaver html colorization as much as possible.

To use this navigate to HTML color preferences and click import button. Point ColdFusion Builder to this .col file and hit apply. That’s it!!

Understanding Default colorization for HTML Tags:

By default angular Braces for HTML tags are colorized differently than tag name. Apart from these most options are straight forward, and should be easy to change through HTML Color Preferences.

Here is how you customize colorization for angular braces around html tags.

1) Select HTML->Editors->HTML->Colors in preferences
2) Expand “Punctuator” node, Select Start Tag.
3) With Start Tag entry selected expand region colorization section below.
4) Change two entries “Tag_part” and “Name_part” to color of your choice.
5) Click apply to notice changes in any currently open file with html code.

Follow similar steps for “Punctuator” End tag entry to colorize html end tag.

Understanding  region colorization:

Regions are used to further break down any known token into number of parts. For eg.  for start tag (”<table>”) you can define 3 different regions as “<” , “table” “>” and colorize them differently.
Any tag with defined region for them have a small bar in front of their entry in token section.
Attached is screen shot which shows start tag with region colorization defined for it.
Also notice small bar in front of start tag to indicate the same.