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The Editor for Visualforce or Apex
When editing Visualforce or Apex, either in the Visualforce development mode footer or from Setup, an editor is available.
Required Editions
| Available in: Salesforce Classic |
| Apex is available in: Enterprise, Performance, Unlimited, Developer, and Database.com Editions |
| Available in: Salesforce Classic |
| Visualforce is available in: Contact Manager, Group, Professional, Enterprise, Performance, Unlimited, and Developer Editions |
| User Permissions Needed | |
|---|---|
| To edit Visualforce markup: | Customize Application |
| To edit custom Visualforce controllers or Apex | Author Apex |
The Apex and Visualforce editor has the following functionality:
Syntax Highlighting
The editor automatically applies syntax highlighting for keywords and all functions and operators.
Search ()
Search 
enables you to search for text within the current page,
class, or trigger. To use search, enter a string in the Search
textbox and click Find Next
- To replace a found search string with another string, enter the new string in the Replace textbox and click replace to replace just that instance, or Replace All to replace that instance and all other instances of the search string that occur in the page, class, or trigger.
- To make the search operation case sensitive, select the Match Case option.
- To use a regular expression as your search string, select the Regular
Expressions option. The regular expressions follow JavaScript's
regular expression rules. A search using regular expressions can find strings
that wrap over more than one line.
If you use the replace operation with a string found by a regular expression, the replace operation can also bind regular expression group variables (
$1,$2, and so on) from the found search string. For example, to replace an<h1>tag with an<h2>tag and keep all the attributes on the original<h1>intact, search for<h1(\s+)(.*)>and replace it with<h2$1$2>.
Go to line ()
The Go to line 
button allows you to highlight a specified line number. If
the line is not currently visible, the editor scrolls to that line.
Undo and Redo
Use undo 
to
reverse an editing action and redo 
to recreate an editing action
that was undone.
Font Size
Select a font size from the drop-down list to control the size of the characters displayed in the editor.
Line and Column Position
The line and column position of the cursor is displayed in the status bar at the
bottom of the editor. This can be used with go to line () to quickly navigate
through the editor.
Line and Character Count
The total number of lines and characters is displayed in the status bar at the bottom of the editor.
Editor Keyboard Shortcuts
- Tab: Adds a tab at the cursor
- SHIFT+Tab: Removes a tab
- CTRL+f: Opens the search dialog or searches for the next occurrence of the current search
- CTRL+r: Opens the search dialog or replaces the next occurrence of the current search with the specified replacement string
- CTRL+g: Opens the go to line dialog
- CTRL+s: Performs a quick save.
- CTRL+z: Reverses the last editing action
- CTRL+y: Recreates the last editing action that was undone
