File Tabs and Document Options

File Tabs and Document Options

At the bottom of a document in the HotDog editor you will see file tabs representing the files that you currently have open in HotDog, as well as a range of document options for the currently selected file. Using these file tabs and document option buttons you can:

• navigate between open documents;

• print, save or close a document;

• save or close all open documents;

• re-order the open documents in the editor;

• toggle code-completion on/off;

• toggle overwrite/insert text mode;

• show/hide hidden fields;

• turn word-wrap on/off;

• hide or display the document gutter;

• toggle tag highlighting on/off;

• toggle syntax highlighting on/off.

File Tab Functions

Using File Tabs To Navigate Between Open Documents

You can navigate between open documents in HotDog by clicking on the document's corresponding tab, located at the bottom of the document you are working on. In the example shown above, document3.html is the currently selected document. You could change to document1.html by clicking on its tab. After clicking on document1.html's tab, the contents of document1.html will be displayed in the editor, ready for editing.

Changing the Order of File Tabs

You can change the order that document tabs appear in at the bottom of the document editing screen by clicking on the tab for a document, holding the mouse button down, and moving the mouse to the position in the tabs where you would like the document tab to appear.

Saving, Printing and Closing Files using the File Tabs

You can access options to save, close or print a document by clicking on the document's tab with the right hand mouse button. The context menu that appears will also provide you with options to save or close all of the currently open documents.

Context menu that appears when right-clicking on the document3.html tab.

Document Options

Showing/Hiding Document Options

If the bottom of your document in HotDog looks like this:

... then your document options are currently hidden. You can display document options by clicking on the button on the left hand side of the line above the file tabs at the bottom of the document.

After doing this you should see option buttons similar to the following:

You can hide the document options again by clicking on the button to the left of the document options:

What the Document Option Buttons Do

Syntax Highlighting toggle button. Clicking on this button toggles syntax highlighting in the document editor.

Tag Highlighting toggle button. Clicking on this button turns tag highlighting on or off.

Gutter toggle button. Clicking on this button hides or displays the document gutter (which displays line numbers, and from which you can set and select bookmarks and collapse/expand lines).

Word Wrap toggle button. Clicking on this button turns word-wrap in the document editor on or off.

Show/Hide Hidden Fields toggle button. By clicking on this button you can cause symbols representing hidden fields such as spaces and carriage returns to display in the document editor. Clicking on the button again hides these special characters.

Overwrite/Insert toggle button. Clicking on this button toggles the overwrite/insert cursor modes within the document editor.

Code Completion toggle button. Clicking on this button will toggle the code completion mode on or off. Code completion will be activated with the settings defined under [Edit][Preferences][Editing Window][Code Completion].

End of Line Type. Clicking on this button will toggle between Windows, Macintosh and UNIX icons. The icon displayed represents how the end-of line markers in the document will be formatted. This feature can be used to format files for upload to Windows, Macintosh and UNIX file servers.