Outline View Contextual Menu Actions in Author Mode

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. For more details about this action, see Attributes View in Author Mode.

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 editing actions

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 and Paste after actions allow you to insert a well-formed element before or after the currently selected element. The Paste as XML action pastes copied content that is considered to be valid XML, preserving its XML structure.

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.

Expands the structure tree of the currently selected element.

Collapse All

Collapses all of the structure tree of the currently selected node.