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How custom tags appear in the Design view
How custom tags appear in the Design view of the Document window depends on
the values of the
tag_type
and
render_contents
attributes of the
tagspec
tag. If
the value of
tag_type
is
"empty"
, the icon specified in the
icon
attribute appears.
If the value of
tag_type
is
"nonempty"
but the value of
render_contents
is
"false"
, the icon appears as it would for an empty tag. For example, an instance of
the
happy
tag defined earlier might appear in the HTML like this:
<p>This is a paragraph that includes an instance of the
<code>happy</code>
tag (<happy>Joe</happy>).</p>
That paragraph might appear in the Design view like this:
Note that since
render_contents
is set to
"false"
in the tag specification, the
contents of the
happy
tag (the word
Joe
) are not rendered; instead the start and
end tags and their contents are displayed as a single icon.
For nonempty tags that have a
render_contents
value of
"true"
, the icon does
not appear in the Design view; instead, the contents between the opening and
closing tags (such as the text between the tags in
<mytag>This is the contents
between the opening and closing tags</mytag>
) appears. If View >
Invisible Elements is enabled, the content is highlighted using the third-party tag
color specified in Highlighting preferences. (Note that highlighting applies only to
tags defined in tag database files.)
To change the highlighting color of third-party tags:
1
Choose Edit > Preferences and select the Highlighting category.
2
Click the Third-Party Tags color box to display the color picker.
3
Choose a color, then click OK to close the Preferences dialog box. For
information about choosing a color, see “Working with colors” on page 87.