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<h1 class="topictitle1">Setting preferences for structured text editors</h1>
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<div class="section">You can customize your working environment by specifying preferences
for the structured text editor.</div>
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<li class="stepexpand"><span>In the main menu, click <span class="menucascade"><span class="uicontrol">Window</span>
&gt; <span class="uicontrol">Preferences</span></span>.</span></li>
<li class="stepexpand"><span>Select one of the choices that are shown in the following table:</span>
<table class="choicetableborder" summary="" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="4" rules="rows" frame="hsides" border="1">
<thead><tr><th valign="bottom" id="N1006E-option">Item</th>
<th valign="bottom" id="N1006E-desc">Menu path</th></tr></thead>
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<tr><td valign="top" headers="N1006E-option" id="N10088"><strong>Annotation settings</strong></td>
<td valign="top" headers="N1006E-desc N10088"><span class="menucascade"><span class="uicontrol">Workbench</span>
&gt; <span class="uicontrol">Editors</span> &gt; <span class="uicontrol">Annotations</span></span></td>
</tr>
<tr><td valign="top" headers="N1006E-option" id="N100AB"><strong>Character encoding</strong></td>
<td valign="top" headers="N1006E-desc N100AB"><span class="uicontrol">Web and XML</span>,
then one of the following choices: <span class="uicontrol">CSS Files</span>, <span class="uicontrol">HTML
Files</span>, <span class="uicontrol">JSP Files</span>, <span class="uicontrol">*XML Files
( *not implemented in WTP)</span></td>
</tr>
<tr><td valign="top" headers="N1006E-option" id="N100D6"><strong>Content assist: HTML</strong></td>
<td valign="top" headers="N1006E-desc N100D6"><span class="menucascade"><span class="uicontrol">Web
and XML</span> &gt; <span class="uicontrol">HTML Files</span> &gt; <span class="uicontrol">HTML Source</span>
</span></td>
</tr>
<tr><td valign="top" headers="N1006E-option" id="N100F8"><strong>Content assist: JavaScript</strong></td>
<td valign="top" headers="N1006E-desc N100F8"><span class="menucascade">
<span class="uicontrol">Web and XML</span> &gt; <span class="uicontrol">JavaScript Files</span>
&gt; <span class="uicontrol">JavaScript Source</span></span></td>
</tr>
<tr><td valign="top" headers="N1006E-option" id="N1011B"><strong>Content assist: XML</strong></td>
<td valign="top" headers="N1006E-desc N1011B"><span class="menucascade"><span class="uicontrol">Web
and XML</span> &gt; <span class="uicontrol">*XML Files (*not implemented in WTP)</span>
&gt; <span class="uicontrol">XML Source</span></span></td>
</tr>
<tr><td valign="top" headers="N1006E-option" id="N1013D"><strong>Editor appearance</strong></td>
<td valign="top" headers="N1006E-desc N1013D"><span class="menucascade"><span class="uicontrol">Workbench</span>
&gt; <span class="uicontrol">Editors</span> &gt; <span class="uicontrol">Structured Text Editor</span>
&gt; <span class="uicontrol">Appearance</span></span></td>
</tr>
<tr><td valign="top" headers="N1006E-option" id="N10165"><strong>Editor font</strong></td>
<td valign="top" headers="N1006E-desc N10165"><span class="menucascade"><span class="uicontrol">Workbench</span>
&gt; <span class="uicontrol">Colors and Fonts</span> &gt; <span class="uicontrol">Structured Text Editor</span>
</span></td>
</tr>
<tr><td valign="top" headers="N1006E-option" id="N10188"><strong>Editor navigation</strong></td>
<td valign="top" headers="N1006E-desc N10188"><span class="menucascade"><span class="uicontrol">Workbench</span>
&gt; <span class="uicontrol">Editors</span> &gt; <span class="uicontrol">Structured Text Editor</span>
&gt; <span class="uicontrol">Navigation</span></span></td>
</tr>
<tr><td valign="top" headers="N1006E-option" id="N101B0"><strong>File-type-specific settings</strong></td>
<td valign="top" headers="N1006E-desc N101B0"><span class="uicontrol">Web
and XML</span>, then navigate to the file type and particular setting</td>
</tr>
<tr><td valign="top" headers="N1006E-option" id="N101C5"><strong>Hover help</strong></td>
<td valign="top" headers="N1006E-desc N101C5"><span class="menucascade"><span class="uicontrol">Workbench</span>
&gt; <span class="uicontrol">Editors</span> &gt; <span class="uicontrol">Structured Text Editor</span>
&gt; <span class="uicontrol">Hovers</span></span></td>
</tr>
<tr><td valign="top" headers="N1006E-option" id="N101ED"><strong>Key bindings</strong></td>
<td valign="top" headers="N1006E-desc N101ED"><span class="menucascade"><span class="uicontrol">Workbench</span>
&gt; <span class="uicontrol">Keys</span> &gt; <span class="uicontrol">Keyboard Shortcuts</span></span> then
in the <span class="uicontrol">Category</span> field specify <span class="uicontrol">Source</span></td>
</tr>
<tr><td valign="top" headers="N1006E-option" id="N1021C"><strong>Spell checking</strong></td>
<td valign="top" headers="N1006E-desc N1021C"><span class="uicontrol">Spell Check</span></td>
</tr>
<tr><td valign="top" headers="N1006E-option" id="N10230"><strong>Syntax checking</strong></td>
<td valign="top" headers="N1006E-desc N10230"><span class="menucascade"><span class="uicontrol">Workbench</span>
&gt; <span class="uicontrol">Editors</span> &gt; <span class="uicontrol">Structured Text Editor</span>
&gt; <span class="uicontrol">Appearance</span></span> then check or uncheck the <span class="uicontrol">Analyze
annotations while typing</span> box.</td>
</tr>
</tbody></table>
<div class="note"><span class="notetitle">Note:</span> You cannot set <span class="uicontrol">Web and XML</span> preferences
unless the Core XML Support capability (<span class="menucascade"><span class="uicontrol">Workbench</span>
&gt; <span class="uicontrol">Capabilities</span></span>) is enabled, and you cannot
set preferences for DTD files unless the XML Development capability is enabled.</div>
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<div><div class="relconcepts"><strong>Related concepts</strong><br />
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languages</a></div>
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<div class="reltasks"><strong>Related tasks</strong><br />
<div><a href="tsrcedt001.html" title="This documentation describes how to set annotation preferences for Web and XML files. The annotation preferences include whether to analyze the syntactic validity of your file while you are typing and what colors to use to highlight errors, warnings, tasks, search results, bookmarks, and other text.">Setting annotation preferences for
markup languages</a></div>
<div><a href="tsrcedt010.html" title="This documentation describes how to check spelling in a structured text editor.">Checking spelling</a></div>
<div><a href="tsrcedt000.html" title="You can edit text coded in markup languages with a structured text editor. This is a generic term for several editors that you can use to edit any of several markup languages, such as HTML.">Editing text coded in markup languages
- overview</a></div>
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