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:



