Dreamweaver - Highlighting background of text for editor

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Highlighting background of text for editor - how?

bablhous

2004-08-10, 11:17 pm

One of the people in our department is used to highlighting the backgrounds of
certain text areas to specify the text for future editing. He is used to doing
this in another product. We have recently moved to Dreamweaver 4.

Having used Dreamweaver for 18 minutes more than the others, I was dragooned
into 'fixing' this for him.

I created a CSS function for him to color the background of selected text.
However, no good deed goes unpunished. He's back with the complaint that the
original highlighting goes OK but when he scrolls away and comes back, the
highlighting appears to have shrunken vertically - that is, if 4 rows of text
were originally highlighted, when he scrolls back the first time, ~3.5 rows
will be highlighted. Next time, ~3 rows. Well, you can see where this is going.

I've spent quite a bit of time looking for a solution to this and it's
becoming a quest!

Is there a better way to do this? I could really use some help.

bablhous

Murray *TMM*

2004-08-10, 11:17 pm

Is he doing this scrolling in DW?

Since the highlighting is determined by the placement of styles around your
text, there is no logical way that scrolling the page could yield a
'contracting' highlight area. Is it perhaps possible that your colleague
sees this effect only after a deeply liquid lunch?

Seriously, could you show me some text before and after the highlight?

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"bablhous" <webforumsuser@macromedia.com> wrote in message
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> One of the people in our department is used to highlighting the
backgrounds of
> certain text areas to specify the text for future editing. He is used to
doing
> this in another product. We have recently moved to Dreamweaver 4.
>
> Having used Dreamweaver for 18 minutes more than the others, I was
dragooned
> into 'fixing' this for him.
>
> I created a CSS function for him to color the background of selected
text.
> However, no good deed goes unpunished. He's back with the complaint that
the
> original highlighting goes OK but when he scrolls away and comes back, the
> highlighting appears to have shrunken vertically - that is, if 4 rows of
text
> were originally highlighted, when he scrolls back the first time, ~3.5
rows
> will be highlighted. Next time, ~3 rows. Well, you can see where this is
going.
>
> I've spent quite a bit of time looking for a solution to this and it's
> becoming a quest!
>
> Is there a better way to do this? I could really use some help.
>
> bablhous
>

Murray *TMM*

2004-08-13, 12:16 pm

So - this is confined to display in Dreamweaver? I really don't have a clue
other than to begin taking a hard look at your graphics subsystem. I have
personally never experienced anything like this.

Could you perhaps email the document to me?

forums at mydomain dot com, and mydomain = great-web-sights

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"bablhous" <webforumsuser@macromedia.com> wrote in message
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> More information.
>
> I've copied the document onto my PC. When I display it in IE6, the
> highlighting is correct and stable. If I am viewing it in DW (as I would
for
> editing), it is quite a different story.
>
> If I scroll the area with the highlighting off the screen and then back,
the
> highlighting contracts vertically, a bit at a time, until all that is
visible
> is one line of highlighting. If I continue to scroll back and forth, the
> highlighting begins to expand again but never as completely as when it was
> first applied. If, at any point in this operation, I <F12> the page, the
> highlighting is present, in place, and apparently intact.
>
> A small but maddening glitch.
>
> Oh yeah, one more thing. My user says it was only three martinis.
>
> Thanks for your time,
> bablhous
>

Murray *TMM*

2004-08-13, 7:16 pm