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20050816 Tuesday August 16, 2005

Drag-and-Drop JSP and HTML Code Snippets in NetBeans IDE

Check out the cool palette that makes my JSP and HTML life so much easier. I found it in a NetBeans IDE Dev build yesterday, (i.e., it is not in NetBeans IDE 4.1, but in a development build for the next release, which you can download and try out here). The palette opens automatically when you open a JSP file or an HTML file in the Source Editor. Then you drag the code snippet of your choice into the page. Next, a dialog box opens and you can define the most common properties. Really good news, I think. This is what it looks like for a button:

Aug 16 2005, 01:31:04 AM PDT Permalink