Source Syntax Highlighting in the New Rich Text Editor
This feature brings syntax highlighting and other smaller updates that improve readability and usability of the source code (HTML) for the answers. These include:
- Syntax Highlighting: Color code to reflect syntactic structure. (Color coded and indented)
- Line Numbers: Display gutters with line numbers
- Search/Replace: Editor specific search/regexp search, and replace functionality (Cmd/Ctrl+F for search; Cmd/Ctrl+G to navigate to next search result; Shift+Cmd/Ctrl+G to go to previous search result; Option/Alt + Cmd/Ctrl + F for search and replace)
- Bracket Closing: Automatically insert closing brackets for a tag while typing
- Auto Closing tags: Closing tags automatically inserted when creating the opening tag
Business Value:
This feature bridges a gap between the existing text editor and the new rich text editor on Browser UI answer editor. It keeps the HTML source code of the answer clean, readable and easily editable.
Steps to Enable
You don't need to do anything to enable this feature.
Tips And Considerations
- While the feature is available with no steps to enable, it is available on the new rich text editor for the Broser UI answer editor (steps the enable which remain the same)
- This feature is part of the 3.24.09.13-b0002 - BUI Oct i release and was pushed on your non-production site(s) on 9/19 and will be pushed to your production site on 10/3.