[Webuilder2010] fill asp areas with single background color

[habakuck]

Hi,
I was trying, but failing to get a single (non-white) background color to all asp areas, to make them stand out better from the surrounding html.
I tried to set all ASP elements to a grey background, but then all whitespace remains white. What I want is a complete fill with one backgroiund color, from the "<%" to the "%>", with no interuption. Homesite did that.

Please, don't tell me I can do it myself by studying your color scripting language for the next month, because I don't have the time to try and maybe find out that this can't be done at all. Is it possible? Did anyone ever do this? Is there an alternate coloring script that does that? Or is there a simple method that I just didn't figure out yet?

Btw, I am refering to Webuilder 2010.

Thanks in advance!

PS: I found a post from March 2008 dealing with this problem... have you gotten around to fix the highlighter script yet ?

[Karlis]

Well, then this can not be done from the user interface (Only by modifying syntax script). If you are a paying customer using the current version of the software, I will spend some time and modify the code to accomodate this need.

[habakuck]

Hi Karlis,

yes I am a paying customer, and I run the latest version. Do you mean you will incorporate this in the next version, or do you create an alternative script?
Anyway, big thank you!

[Karlis]

We will include it in the next version but you can do this sooner.

In aspparser.dat locate line starting with:
shtmlASP #32*

Rewrite it to be
//white space
shtmlASP #32* shtmlASP taspsymbol

This means that inside of ASP code (shtmlASP) one or more space characters (#32*) should be painted same color as asp

alternatively you can replace #32* with [#32#9]* to cover spaces and tabs.

[x3po]

We will include it in the next version [...]

This is a great news.

[habakuck]

Thanks! I'll try it out.