Quick Edit view
The Quick Edit view lets you add short scripts to your HTML and JSP files. For example, if you select a button tag on a JSP page, you can then associate a click event with that button and add a script to it.
If the Quick Edit view is not already open, you can open it by selecting the item and then selecting
Edit Events from the pop-up menu.
Note: This function is available only for JSP pages. The left pane displays a list of possible events associated with the selected tag. The right pane is a script editor. After selecting an event in the left pane, you can add a script for that event in one of the following ways:
- Enter the script directly into the script editor.
- Insert
snippets by selecting from a list in the pop-up menu or in the
view (
)
drop-down menu.
- Drag and drop a snippet from the Snippets view.
Tip: Before you drag and drop items or text from the Snippets view onto the Quick Edit view, make sure that the Quick Edit view is cleared of the
Insert a code snippet instruction. You can clear the instructions by clicking in the script editor pane. The view menu lets you perform the following additional actions:
- Filter
the list of events in the events list.
- Insert a snippet for a script by selecting from a list. In some cases, a dialog box opens so you can enter variables related to the snippet.
The following icons are used in the Quick Edit view
| Icon | Name | Description |
|---|---|---|
| Unscripted client-side event (no code currently exists) | Code that will be executed on the client side (the Web browser), for example onclick, or onmouseover JavaScript™ |
| Scripted client-side event (code already exists) | Code that will be executed on the client side, for example onclick, or onmouseover JavaScript |
| Unscripted server-side event (no code currently exists) | Code that will be executed on the server side (the host server), for example JSP scriptlets, JSF commands, value changed events |
| Scripted server-side event (code already exists) | Code that will be executed on the server side (the host server), for example JSP scriptlets, JSF commands, value changed events |
For client-side events, these events are written in the page you are editing. For server-side JSF events, the events are written to the Page Code file.
As you add or change scripts in the Quick Edit view, the HTML or JSP file is updated immediately, except that if you edit a JSF server-side code script and then close the JSP file, the changes may not be saved. To ensure that JSF server-side code changes are saved, have the file containing the JSF server code opened when editing the script. To open the script, select
Edit Page Code from the item's pop-up menu.
Besides scripting events, you can use the Quick Edit view to modify SCRIPT, jsp:scriptlet, jsp:expression, and jsp:declaration scripts.
Related concepts
Related tasks
Adding scripted events to Web pages
Adding snippets in the Quick Edit view
Adding snippets from the Snippets view
Adding scripts, controls, and effects to Web pages