Taco HTML Edit Help
Basic Topics
Advanced Topics
Installation
After downloading the Taco HTML Edit file, open the disk image file. The Taco HTML Edit application will then appear. You should drag the application to your "Applications" folder. Once Taco HTML Edit appears in your "Applications" folder, you can eject the disk image.
Basic Information about Taco HTML Edit
Taco HTML Edit is a text editor that includes special features to simplify the creation of web pages with HTML. In order to use Taco HTML Edit effectively, a basic understanding of HTML is required. Many good books and websites are available that provide tutorials to teach HTML.
Previewing Documents
While you are editing a document, you may preview it in a web browser. Do this by selecting the "Preview" item for the "View" menu. To preview your document in a certain browser, use the "Preview With Browser" submenu in the "View" menu.
You can choose a default Preview Browser in the "Display" tab in the Preferences Panel.
Searching in Documents
Taco HTML Edit provides two ways to search documents for certain pieces of text. The "Find" item in the "Find" menu provides a panel for finding and replacing text in a single document. The "Batch Find" item in the "Find" menu can find and replace text in all of the open documents. Both Find Panels include options to ignore the case (uppercase vs. lowercase) of text while searching.
Using the Insert Panels
Using the "Insert" menu, you can use wizards to quickly create RGB colors, font tags, image tags, image maps, links, lists, meta tags, and tables. Most of the wizards are straightforward and easy to use.
The image map wizard deserves special attention. When selecting the "Image Map" item from the "Insert" menu, you are first presented with a panel asking for you to select an image and specify some information about it. You should then proceed by clicking the "Design Image Map" button. Another panel will appear that allows you to actually design the layout of the map. You design the map by creating new circles, rectangles, and polygons, and by moving and resizing them. Once you are done designing, click "OK", and then click "Insert Map" on the first panel.
From the "Insert" menu, you can also access an "Advanced Tag Insert" Panel. This panel helps you to create any HTML tag in the 4.01 Transitional HTML specification.
Checking HTML Syntax
Taco HTML Edit provides tools in the "Syntax" menu to help you ensure that your code is compliant with the HTML 4.01 Transitional standard defined by the World Wide Web Consortium. The "Check Tag Syntax/Structure..." item checks your HTML code for compliance. It examines tag names, tag attributes, and the values assigned to certain attributes. It also makes sure that all tags are opened and closed appropriately. You can view a hierarchical diagram of the tags in your document by clicking the "Show/Hide Tree" button.
Additional Questions
If you have additional questions, you can feel free to email Taco Software.
Taco HTML Edit Feature Log
Taco HTML Edit v1.7.0 New Features
- PHP syntax coloring include support for PHP comments.
- Support for spell-checking, with ability to ignore HTML tags.
- Ability to display line numbers for documents.
- Projects detect file system changes.
- Projects now have an "Action" menu to perform various functions.
- New toolbar icons.
- Various bug fixes.
Taco HTML Edit v1.6.0 New Features
- Improvements in Syntax Coloring, including support for PHP.
- PHP Support (requires installation of PHP Command Line Interface)
- Preview and Live Preview of executed PHP code.
- Check PHP syntax.
- Check syntax of HTML from executed PHP code.
- Improved interface for syntax checking.
- Format Tags menu in toolbar for commonly used formatting tags.
- Support for transparent backgrounds.
- Shift Left and Shift Right indenting.
- Bug fixes
Taco HTML Edit v1.5.0 New Features
- Improved Quick Insert Menu that can be customized.
- Live Preview feature added (requires Safari 1.0 and Mac OS X 10.2 or higher).
- Automatically updates preview as document is edited.
- Includes option to block images and/or internet files from preview.
- Includes option to include a horizontal or vertical split between the document text and the preview.
- Go To Line Number feature.
- Save All added to File menu.
- Lets you create multi-document projects.
- No configuration required.
- Allows files to be dragged and dropped to automatically create links and image tags.
- Allows user to automatically exclude files with certain file extensions.
- New files can be created and added to projects.
- Bug fixes and interface adjustments.
Taco HTML Edit v1.2.1 New Features
- Auto-Indent option
- Improved Stability
- User Interface Adjustments
Taco HTML Edit v1.2.0 New Features
- Includes a new coloring scheme in addition to the previous one.
- Batch Find for searching multiple documents.
- Tag Organizer helps make HTML code easier to read.
- New Taco icon.
- Line wrapping can be done by words or characters.
- Improved Unicode handling.
- Fixes bugs related to file opening and saving.
- Many other bug fixes.