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Changing Look Of Expand / Collapse Boxes and Lines

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mike turn
2015-03-09
2015-03-12

  • mike turn

    mike turn - 2015-03-09

    Hello Everyone,

    I was wondering if anyone knows of a way to change the look of the Expand / Collapse boxes and lines.

    For example currently when you place your cursor within a xml or html tag, Notepad++ will turn the expand/collapse box and the lines connecting them to a thin red line.

    If possible I would like to achieve some of the following....

    1. Thicken up this red line and make it very bold so it stands out.

    2. Maybe an option to change what the expand/collapse boxes look like
      (not that important but would be nice to have the option)

    3. Way to have Notepad++ highlight the background of the entire tag selected with a user definable color. This would really help even more to make tags stand out.

    If anyone has anything information they can share on the subject it would be greatly appreciated.

    Thank You

     

  • Justin Dailey

    Justin Dailey - 2015-03-10

    Settings->Preferences...->Editing under Folder Margin Styles gives you a few options of what it looks like.

    Settings->Style Configurator... and select Global Styles under Language and Fold Active under Style lets you pick the color of it, not sure you can make a thicker line. You may also look under those options or see if there is something else under the HTML Language option to change the background of the selected tag.

     

  • mike turn

    mike turn - 2015-03-12

    Thank You for your response.
    I had messed around with these options in the past but never really found what I was looking for.

    Notepad++ seems to allow you to only change the color of the vertical fold line but no option to thicken them up unfortunately.

    I was playing around with these settings again earlier today and I was able to come up with decent idea which I will share if anyone should ever search for this someday.

    The best thing I found was to.....
    turn the color of the fold margin to white
    turn the color of the unselected vertical lines to very light grey
    turn the background of the fold icons to a dark grey
    keep the color of the select vertical lines red

    This way when you select a tag the red vertical lines stand out more.
    Hopefully this will help others out in the future.

    Thank You Again For Your Response.

     
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