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<title>Setting source highlighting styles</title>
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<searchtitle>Setting source highlighting styles</searchtitle>
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<shortdesc>If desired, you can change various aspects of how the XML source
code is displayed in the Source view of the XML editor, such as the colors
the tags will be displayed in.</shortdesc>
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<keywords><indexterm>XML editor<indexterm>setting source highlighting styles</indexterm></indexterm>
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<context><p>To set highlighting styles for the XML code, complete the following
steps:</p></context>
<steps>
<step><cmd>Click <menucascade><uicontrol>Window</uicontrol><uicontrol>Preferences</uicontrol>
</menucascade> and select <menucascade><uicontrol>XML</uicontrol><uicontrol>XML
Files</uicontrol><uicontrol> Syntax Coloring</uicontrol></menucascade>.</cmd>
</step>
<step><cmd>In the <uicontrol>Syntax Element</uicontrol> list, select the source
tag type that you wish to set a highlighting style for. You can also click
text in the <uicontrol>Sample text</uicontrol> box to specify the source tag
type that you wish to set a highlighting style for.</cmd></step>
<step><cmd>Click the <uicontrol>Foreground</uicontrol> box, select the color
that you want the text of the tag to appear in, and click <uicontrol>OK</uicontrol>.</cmd>
</step>
<step><cmd>Click the <uicontrol>Background</uicontrol> box, select the color
that you want to appear behind the tag, and click <uicontrol>OK</uicontrol>.</cmd>
</step>
<step><cmd>Select the <uicontrol>Bold</uicontrol> check box if you want to
make the type bold.</cmd></step>
<step><cmd> </cmd></step>
<step><cmd>Click <uicontrol>OK</uicontrol> to save your changes.</cmd></step>
</steps>
<result>To set the highlight<?Pub Caret?>ing styles back to their default
values, click <uicontrol>Restore Default</uicontrol>. If you only want to
reset the value for a particular content type, select it in the <uicontrol>Syntax
Element</uicontrol> field, then click the <uicontrol>Restore Default</uicontrol> button.</result>
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