Document colors don't show

Neal · Post by **Neal** » Wed Aug 20, 2003 6:55 pm

I'm trying out Textpad 4.7, running it on a Win98 machine. I edit HTML documents with it, but I cannot get colors for the various document classes to show up in HTML files. I've fiddled with the Preference settings to no avail. Any suggestions on how to make the colors show up?

bartlett22183 · Post by **bartlett22183** » Wed Aug 20, 2003 7:34 pm

Do you have a syntax file for HTML and do you have it specified correctly under Preferences for an HTML document class? Or maybe I'm not understanding your question correctly.

Neal · Post by **Neal** » Wed Aug 20, 2003 7:50 pm

I should be more clear. I open an HTML file, and all the text, regardless of the tag, is in black. In Configure-->Preferences-->document class-->HTML-->Colors, various colors are given to different items but none show up in the HTML doc when it is open in TextPad.

webmasta · Post by **webmasta** » Thu Aug 21, 2003 1:56 am

Did you "enable syntax highlighting" and chose the html definition file??

Try preferences /document classes /html /syntax.

Put a check mark in "enable syntax highlighting" and choose html.syn file from the drop down selectoor.

Post by **bbadmin** » Thu Aug 21, 2003 7:25 am

Another thing to check is that the file extension of your files is included in the list of members of the HTML document class, and not any other class. Note that "*.html" (or whatever) is required, not just ".html" or "html". Without wildcards, the member is assumed to be an exact file name.

Keith MacDonald
Helios Software Solutions

Neal · Post by **Neal** » Thu Aug 21, 2003 3:53 pm

Thanks Webmasta--you hit the nail on the head. BINGO!
Neal