Netbeans for PHP

Code completion for Colors in CSS

Posted by Petr Pisl on Feb, 02:51:55 PM CET

Another improvements that's based on your comments are code completion for colors in CSS rules. The code completion for color and background property offers now is at first position a item that opens color chooser.

There is a standard Java color chooser and if you select a color in the Chooser, the color is completed. The chooser remembered last selected color and also the item in code completion have an icon (small square) with the last S elected color.

The color chooser above is from Linux platform. On Mac and Windows machine, the Color Chooser looks like on the picture below and it looks better. If There'll is time, the standard Java Color Chooser component'll be replaced with a custom component, which should be Better for web Developer purpose.

If you look at the first picture, there is black and gray color code completion items. The black color items is used in the edited file and the gray color items is colors that is used in other CSS files in The project.

In the same to works code completion for color and background property of a style in HTML and PHP files.

Reference: http://blogs.sun.com/netbeansphp/

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