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Version: 3.4.3

HTML Editor Ribbon Tab

Context-sensitive tab — appears when the HTML Editor context is active.

Commands available on the HTML Editor ribbon tab, grouped by panel.

Most editing happens in the editor's own toolbar

Field guide pages and analysis reports are edited in a WYSIWYG editor whose toolbar sits above the page — that is where you will find fonts, colours, alignment, tables, callouts, quizzes, VRGS links, maps, media and (in a report) figures and PDF export. This ribbon tab carries a handful of the same formatting commands so they can be reached from the ribbon, plus Save.

See the Virtual Field Guide Editor and Analysis Reports guides.

Save​

Save HTML​

Tooltip: Save HTML

Save the current page. Ctrl+S does the same, and so does the 💾 button on the editor's own toolbar. A previous version of the page is kept, so an earlier save can be recovered with Restore Previous Version… in the editor's Guide sidebar.

Editor Font​

The controls in this panel — Increase Size, Decrease Size, Font, Line Numbers, Indenting, Use XHTML and Auto Complete — belong to the older plain-text HTML source editor and do nothing in the WYSIWYG editor. Set fonts and sizes from the editor's own toolbar instead; to work on the markup directly, use the toolbar's </> source toggle.

Formatting​

These commands act on the current selection in the WYSIWYG editor, and are mirrors of the editor's own toolbar buttons.

Prettify​

Reformats raw HTML source. Legacy — it has no effect in the WYSIWYG editor.

Character formatting​

Dropdown items:

  • Button — Bold (ID_HTMLVIEW_FONTBOLD)
  • Button — Italic (ID_HTMLVIEW_FONTITALIC)
  • Button — Underline (ID_HTMLVIEW_FONTUNDERLINE)

Dropdown items:

  • Unordered List — Create a bulleted list from the selection (ID_HTMLVIEW_LISTTAG)
  • Ordered List — Create a numbered list from the selection (ID_HTMLVIEW_ORDEREDLISTTAG)
  • Link — Insert a hyperlink (ID_HTMLVIEW_WEBLINK)
  • image — Insert an image (ID_HTMLVIEW_IMAGE)
  • Remove Formatting — Strip formatting from the selection (ID_HTMLVIEW_CLEARFORMATTING)
tip

For a link that acts on the 3D scene — flying the camera to a viewpoint, or starting a flight path — use the editor toolbar's Insert → VRGS Link rather than this plain hyperlink.

Headings​

Dropdown items:

  • h1 — Heading 1 (ID_HTMLVIEW_HEADER1)
  • h2 — Heading 2 (ID_HTMLVIEW_HEADER2)
  • h3 — Heading 3 (ID_HTMLVIEW_HEADER3)
  • h4 — Heading 4 (ID_HTMLVIEW_HEADER4)
  • h5 — Heading 5 (ID_HTMLVIEW_HEADER5)
  • h6 — Heading 6 (ID_HTMLVIEW_HEADER6)

Headings are also what the editor's This page outline, a page's Table of Contents block and a report's table of contents are built from, so they are worth using rather than large bold text.

Edit​

Find (ID_HTMLVIEW_FIND) and Replace (ID_HTMLVIEW_REPLACE) belong to the plain-text source editor. In the WYSIWYG editor use the WebView's own find (Ctrl+F).

Undo and redo are Ctrl+Z / Ctrl+Y, or the ↩ / ↪ buttons on the editor toolbar.