Assorted HTML tips (was: [TxMt] first impressions)

[Allan Odgaard]

On 20/10/2005, at 22.09, Trevor Turk wrote:

> Kevin, thanks for the reply. Sorry if I wasn't clear,
> but a lot of that was just notes. I hope that they
> could be indicative of many users first few questions.
> I noticed that there isn't too much documentation, so
> I started collecting notes as a learned, in the hopes
> that it might be useful for any documentation later.

It is, thanks! :)

Some other tips when working with HTML:

  1) for new tags: type the name of the tag you want and ctrl-cmd  
space, this turns it into <tag></tag> and places caret in the middle.

  2) for wrapping text in a tag: select the text and type ctrl-shift  
W, this wraps the text in a tag pair, and allows you to overtype the  
tag name (and add arguments).

  3) a variant of #2 is when you want to make the text a link, use  
ctrl-shift L instead.

  4) when you want to insert an <img> tag, dropping the image into  
the text area inserts the tag with proper width and height dimensions.

  5) for closing open tags: option-cmd . will insert any </missing>  
tag for the current context.

My own use of HTML is limited to what I put on macromates.com, but  
for that I make frequent use of 1-4, and these can all be edited in  
the bundle editor, e.g. I have a variant of the image drag command  
that scales down the image to 75%, centers it, and makes the image a  
link to the actual image URL (for when I post on my blog) -- I also  
have the ctrl-shift L snippet use the contents of the clipboard for  
the actual href, but this (currently) only works when e.g.  
Quicksilvers clipboard history is enabled (something I'll solve in  
the future).