Basic formatting styles

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Formatting of the source code is done through named CSS styles. For example, the default style name for block comments is "block-comment". This means that when a block comment appears, the software will format it as follows:

<div class="block-comment">
/* The block
* comment goes
* here
*/
</div>

Code2Web will use either divs or spans, depending on the situation. If you are using the provided skins, they already use the default names. In general, you should not need to change the default names of the CSS styles, except in the following two situations:

You want a specific item (be it keywords, comments, identifiers, etc...) not to have any special format. In this case, setting the style to null will make code2web skip any div or span generation, resulting in a more compact html output.
The result of the conversion will be embedded into an existing HTML which uses styles with conflicting names. In this case, you must either change the existing style names or instruct code2web to generate the result with different names.

Source Code

All of the generated HTML conversion of the source code is enclosed in a top-level div tag. The sourceStyle property specifies the CSS class name applied to that div, and hence to all nested elements which do not override its settings. By default the style name is "source". .

Eclipse	Netbeans	Monochrome	Citylights
source	source	source	source

HTMLConverter		String getSourceStyle() void setSourceStyle( String style )
Code2Web		code2web ... --sourceStyle = xxxxx ...
<c2w:convert>		<c2w:convert ... sourceStyle="style" ... >