Aptana Tips+Tricks

This page describes how you can use Aptana, even if you are developing with ASP, PHP or other languages not yet supported by Aptana.

With this scriptdoc-file, you can add Code Assist for jQuery to the Aptana webeditor. The changes to jquery.js are only to link it to the scriptdoc-file, there are no functional changes.

This page provides links to help you use Aptana's FTP tool to transfer your files between your hard drive and a remote site:

• About the Aptana FTP tool
• Adding an FTP site
• Adding a site connection
• Synchronizing your files
• Editing a file from a remote site
• Uploading or downloading a file or folder
• Cloaking files or folders

You can turn off tag completion in your preferences:
1. From the Windowmenu, select Preferences...
2. On the tree on the left side of the Preferenceswindow, expand Aptana > Editors > HTML Editor.
3. Under Auto-insert matching characters, choose the Don't auto-insert option.

You can also wrap a block of text with a tag set:
1. In the Actions View, expand the HTML folder.
2. In your HTML Editor, select the block of text that you want to wrap.
3. In the Actions View, double-click the Wrap with action.

This page describes how to add a new project wizard for your (Java)Script library.

Loads of Aptana Screencasts.

This page describes how to use Aptana with an external web server such as IIS or Apache for previewing files.

Just a list of HTML-Entities.