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MyEclipse CSS editor for Eclipse

This paper describes the new and improved
editors of MyEclipse for CSS files.

General

Author:

Sascha
Wolski

http://www.laliluna.de/tutorials.html

Date:

April,
28 2005


Software:

Eclipse
3.x

MyEclipse
3.8.x

PDF version

http://www.laliluna.de/assets/tutorials/myeclipse-css-editor-en.pdf

CSS Editor

Content Assist

The CSS Editor of MyEclipse supports content
assistant, which appears when you press STRG + SPACE.




Outline View

The Outline View can be used for easy
navigation through the CSS document. If you select an item of the
Outline View the cursor of the editor jumps to the position of the
item.

You can open a view in the menu ?windows
-> show view?.




Properties tab

The Properties tab displays all properties
and its values for the current selected style sheet element. You can
add, edit or delete values and the property will automatically be
added, edited or deleted within the current element.




Formatting code

The CSS Editor supports Code formatting like
the Java Editor of MyEclipse. You can format the CSS document with
the key shortcut STRG + SHIFT , F (default).

CSS options

You can configure the CSS options on the
Preferences tab of MyEclipse (Window > Preferences > MyEclipse
> Editors > CSS). There are a couple of formatting and style
options.