Options dialog

The options dialog allows to set general preferences for application SimplyHTML. All settings are persistently stored for each individual user and reinstated when SimplyHTML is launched.

the options dialog

Look and feel

A feature of the Java[tm] platform is its 'pluggable look and feel' concept. With this setting the user can select a look and feel from those installed on the machine SimplyHTML is running on.

Write HTML files as HTML 3.2

Setting this option causes SimplyHTML to create document files in HTML 3.2. This means that some features from later HTML versions are not available such as certain CSS formats and HTML tags. Setting this option is useful for environments that require HTML 3.2 such as JavaHelp.

Write HTML files as HTML 4

Setting this option causes SimplyHTML to create documents in HTML 4. This enables certain formatting features such as individual table borders or background coloring for individual parts of text.

Link new documents with default style sheet

Usually a reference between a document and a style sheet containing named styles is only created when named styles are added to a document explicitly. In cases where a new document shall use an existing style sheet which was previously created for another document, this option can be used.

Selecting this option causes creation of a style sheet reference in newly created documents linking to the default style sheet (' style.css'). File ' style.css' always is created by SimplyHTML, when named styles are added to a document.

When a new document is created with this option selected, the style sheet reference to ' style.css' is included in the new document upon creation even without named styles being defined for the new document so far. The new document has then to be saved to the directory where respective file ' style.css' is already located for the styles from ' style.css' to be in effect in the new document.