[Riyad Kalla]

Let me prefix this report by saying: I can definately understand why this would not have as high a priority as the other web development tools.

However the editor does need some work. Highlighting isn’t entirely correct, doesn’t seem to have a sense of context and doesn’t update correctly (comments for example).

Since this plugin is so much in its infancy, would this plugin be a better one to integrate:
http://csseditor.sourceforge.net/

The CSS editor in MyEclipse is a promising start (especially with the autocomplete). It just feels unfinished, like the loose ends need to be tied up. The ones I see alot are:

1) Autocomplete is not aware of context. It is not aware of that tag it is being executed in, it is not aware of what you have typed already, it is not aware of case or letter change as you type.

2) Syntax coloring gets wonky when you are entering numbers, for example hex colors #323232; for example.

3) It would be GREAT if there was autocomplete for available HTML tags that you might want to setup CSS for. For example, say you want to enter:

body
{
    background: #3F3F3F;
}

it would be nice if your cursor was outside of braces, if autocomplete would give you a list of HTML tags (like “body”) that you could enter to start a CSS block like this.

[support-michael]

We agree completely. We are looking at the csseditor as a replacement. As you have identified there has been little interest in css editing.

[Sean Dynan]

@support-michael wrote:

We agree completely. We are looking at the csseditor as a replacement. As you have identified there has been little interest in css editing.

Any more info about this Michael? I use the MyEclipse CSS editor all the time and it’s syntax highlighting bugs can make it a little irritating to use. There must be lots of developers out there who have to design the pages as well as code the JSP. I feel so alone… 🙁

[support-michael]

A new CSS editor will be part of ME 2.8. We hope to have a beta available the in early May.

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