The Grid preferences panel is opened from menu .
The following preferences are available for Grid mode of the XML editor:
- Compact representation - If checked a child element is displayed at
the same height level with the parent element. If unchecked a child elements is presented
nested with one level in the parent container, that is lower than the parent with one
row.
- Format and indent when passing from grid to text or on save - The
content of the document is formatted by applying the Format and Indent action on
every switch from the grid editor to the text editor of the same document.
- Default column width (characters) - The default width in characters
of a table column of the grid. A column can hold an element name and its text content, an
attribute name and its value. If the total width of the grid structure is too large you can
resize any column with the mouse but the change is not persistent. To make it persistent set
the new column width in this user option.
- Current selection color - Background color used in the focused
selected cell of the grid to make it different in the set of selected cells. For example
when an entire row is selected only one cell of the row is the focused selected one.
- Selection color - Background color used in the selected cells of
the grid except the focused selected cell which uses a different background color.
- Border color - The color used for the lines that separate the grid
cells.
- Background color - The background color of grid cells that are not
selected.
- Foreground color - The color of the text used for the element
names, text content of elements, attribute names and attribute values.
- Row header colors - Background color - The background color of row
headers that are not selected.
- Row header colors - Current selection color - The background color
of the row header that is currently selected and has the focus.
- Row header colors - Selection color - The background color of the
row header that is currently selected and does not have the focus.
- Column header colors - Background color - The background color of
column headers that are not selected.
- Column header colors - Current selection color - The background
color of the column header that is currently selected and has the focus.
- Column header colors - Selection color - The background color of
the column header that is currently selected and does not have the focus.
The column headers are painted with two color gradients, one for the upper 1/3 part of the
header and the other for the lower 2/3 part. The start and end colors of the first gradient
are set with the first two color buttons. The start and end colors of the second gradient are
set with the last two color buttons.