Creating and editing a browser profile

You can create a browser profile by modifying an existing profile. For example, to create a profile for a future version of Microsoft Internet Explorer, you can open the profile for the most recent version of Internet Explorer that has a profile, add any new tags or attributes introduced in the new version, and save it as a profile for the new version.

To create or edit a browser profile:

1. Open an existing profile for editing.

   If you're creating a new profile, open the profile that most closely resembles the profile you want to create, and save the file under a new filename.

2. If you're creating a new profile, change the name that appears on the first line of text in the file. (Two profiles cannot have the same name.)
3. Add any new tags or attributes that you know are supported by the browser, using the syntax shown in About browser-profile formatting.

   If you don't want to receive error messages about a particular unsupported tag, add it to the list of supported tags. If you do this, save the profile in a separate file with a new filename (such as Browsername x.x limited). Giving this alternate profile a new name preserves the original profile with only the tags that are truly supported.

4. Delete any tags or attributes that are not supported by the browser.

   This step is probably unnecessary if you are creating a profile for a new version of Netscape Navigator or Internet Explorer because browsers rarely drop support for tags.

5. Add any custom error messages according to the syntax shown in About browser-profile formatting.

   The profiles that come with Dreamweaver list all supported tags for the specified browsers. To add a custom error message to a tag, type !msg = "message" after !Error. The following example shows information that appears in the Netscape Navigator 3.0 profile (along with other attributes not shown here):

   <!ELEMENT HR name="Horizontal Rule">
   <!ATTLIST HR
   COLOR !Error
   >
   

   To add a custom error message enter !msg= followed by your error message in quotation marks ("):

   <!ELEMENT HR name="Horizontal Rule">
   <!ATTLIST HR
   COLOR !Error !msg="Internet Explorer 3.0 supports the COLOR tag in
   horizontal rules,but Netscape Navigator 3.0 does not."
   >
   

6. You can use !Error for all error situations, or you can use !Warning or !Info to indicate that a tag will be ignored but will not actually cause an error.

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