The contextual menu of the
Outline view in
Author mode contains the following actions:
- Edit
Attributes
- Allows you to edit the attributes of a selected node. You can find more details
about this action in the Attributes View in Author Mode
topic.
- Edit Profiling Attributes
- Allows you to change the profiling
attributes defined on all selected elements.
- Append Child
- Invokes a content completion list with the names of all the elements that are allowed
by the associated schema and inserts your selection as a child of the current
element.
- Insert Before
- Invokes a content completion list with the names of all the elements that are allowed
by the associated schema and inserts your selection immediately before the current
element, as a sibling.
- Insert After
- Invokes a content completion list with the names of all the elements that are allowed
by the associated schema and inserts your selection immediately after the current
element, as a sibling.
- Cut,
Copy, Paste, Delete
- Executes the typical editing actions on the currently selected elements. The
Cut and Copy operations preserve the
styles of the copied content. The Paste before, Paste
after, and Paste as Child actions allow you to
insert a well-formed element before, after, or as a child of the currently selected
element.
- Toggle
Comment
- Encloses the currently selected element in an XML comment, if the element is not
already commented. If it is already commented, this action will remove the comment.
- Rename
Element
- Invokes a Rename dialog box that allows you to rename the
currently selected element, siblings with the same name, or all elements with the same
name.
- Expand More
- Expands the structure tree of the currently selected element.
- Collapse
All
- Collapses all of the structure tree of the currently selected node.
Tip: You can copy, cut or delete multiple nodes in the
Outline by using the contextual menu after selecting multiple nodes
in the tree.