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Hi, can anyone improve on this? http://www.naltabyte.se/colorsync.htm
I'd like to see a better version, where attributes are colored as well, and it would be even better if it worked for Mozilla as well, and not just IE5x.
Any takers on that challange??

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That's pretty cool!

That would be a nice addition to the GurusNetwork!

Using contentEditable="true" means you'll have a really really hard time getting that to work with any other browser appart from IE. Unless you build the whole thing around DOM node manipulation, I doubt you'd be able to do it. I've tried to do this before with IE5.5 and NN6 but it got way to fustrating so I gave up... Although, I knew a lot less about the DOM back then, but I still think it'd be a job and a half. If you want something like this to be cross browser then I'd highly recommend you do it in somehting like Java, Flash or Shockwave -- you'd save yourself a world of headaches. But if you can live with it being IE only then, well, it's already looking quite good. =)

The main reason I wanted to create something like this was so I could hook it up to a back system to allow for live on the fly site editing.

As for syntax highlighting, it's best to have a reference file/list to check against. As it is now, even the tag <poopy panths> highlights, which would give the wrong impression that it's allowd in HTML. If you have a file that listed each tag element and it's allowd attributes, you could offer a greater ammount of control along with being able to highlight non-supported (incorrect) tags/attributes in their own unique way.

Although, it'd also be nice if you could have a preview button that would render the text as HTML in a frame below it or somehting.

As far as "contentEditable" is concerned and IE only support, I would like to point out that Mozilla starting with version 1.3 does have initial support for "designMode" property and rich text editing. Although designMode is limited to documents only (IFRAMES for example), while contentEditable works with all objects in IE, it's a nice addition to Mozilla...

Oh - and don't paste a bunch of text into that. It falls apart!

..Unless you enter a break that is...
Why do you think that happens????

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