Building Web Applications with Microsoft® Office SharePoint® Designer 2007 Step by Step

Using Tools in Code View

A lot of times, the only way to get something done is to use Code view. For example, if you want to build a complicated Extensible Stylesheet Language (XSL) section involving choose/when/otherwise logic inside a DataViewWebPart object (Data view), you would need to hand-code that. Other times, you might feel more comfortable typing in the code rather than trying to remember where the UI is to insert the necessary HTML.

To make using Code view as easy as possible, SharePoint Designer includes a number of tools at your disposal. One of the least discoverable and yet universally useful tools is the keyboard shortcut for code selection, which enables you to press three keys on the keyboard to select entire HTML blocks—thereby ...