Style Configurator: HTML settings not applied
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It seems not all settings for HTML files are applied to the file text. Also, settings are not _always_ applied. I wonder how to change these, or possibly what other (file types') settings I have to change in order to affect the HTML style.
Problems I found:
COMMENT None of these settings seems to have any effect
NUMBER This setting does affect numbers as attributes values, but:
It does not affect numbers between parentheses, as well as separate numbers, although these both seem to be recorgnized as numbers. They _are_ shown in red. Are these a separate category? There is no other category/Styl in HTML that has a red foreground color...
SINGLESTRING _Underlining_ is done in a default color, not in the foreground color. It is orange-like, as is the white-space color. Changing the default white-space symbol color, does affect the _Underlining_ for SINGLESTRING
SGMLDEFAULT _Underlining_ is done in another foreground color. This is also the same white-space symbol color.
Possibly other styles have their problems as well. I was not able to test them all. I did not find any effect for ENTITY, for example, but I don't know what I should expect. I simply don't know what an ENTITY is.
My main problem was that COMMENTs are not by default in the same font as all other styles. I guess this would be no problem if the COMMENTs' settings would be applied right. The style would follow the general default for fonts, which is Courier New as I like.
Another question related to my playing around with these settings: (HOW) can I simply return to all default values for a certain style or possibly all styles (otherwise than by re-installing)?
[First this: do you see the title? It's longer than allowed when typing it yourself. I could remove a couple of characters, but coulnd't type any new. The original title already had the maximum number of characters.]
It turns out that Javascript inside HTML follows its own settings, that is the settings for the JavaScript language/style. Why is this? I would very much like to have a single set of settings for all items in the same HTML file. Currently, in order to have all the HTML-code look the same, I have to change a number of settings in several languages. I don't think this is very intuitive. Number are numbers, for example, and I really don't want to distinguish JavaScript numbers from HTML-numbers.
I downloaded the .bin.zip package and copied the styles.xml file to my Notepad++ folder. This seems to do the trick. I'll post another question about getting separate files.
The COMMENT settings DO apply to HTML <...> comments including the meta tag(?):
<!-- <meta http-equiv="Page-Enter" content="blendTrans(Duration=0.2)">
<meta http-equiv="Page-Exit" content="blendTrans(Duration=0.2)"> -->
but "code comment"( line)s preceded by // are not affected at all.
They _are_ shown as comments, though: colored green and in the Comic Sans MS font.
I would expect these also to be shown with the HTML COMMENT settings.
Otherwise, there should be a separate category/style for these comments.