If there are multiple HotJava windows open because windows have been cloned, only the current window is closed. If this is the only HotJava window, Close quits the HotJava Browser application.
Quit
Exits the HotJava Browser, quitting all cloned windows started in the current session.
Edit Menu
Copy
Copies selected text to the system clipboard. This menu item is only active when text is selected on a page displayed by the HotJava Browser. You cannot use this menu item to select text from an applet or a type-in field.
Find in Document
Displays the Find In Document window, in which you type the text you want to search for in the current page. If the text is found, it is highlighted, and the page scrolls if necessary to display the highlighted text.

The default search operation is not case sensitive, which means the HotJava Browser does not distinguish between upper- or lower-case text while searching. For example, a request to find the word HotJava will find hotjava, HOTJAVA, HoTjAvA, or any other combination of upper- and lower-case letters.

You can also choose to do a case sensitive search, which means the HotJava Browser does distinguish between upper- and lower-case text, and only finds text that matches exactly. Thus a case sensitive request to find HotJava will only find the string HotJava; it will not find hotjava, HOTJAVA, and so on.

Use the Find button in the Find In Document window to initiate each search. The search either begins from the currently highlighted text or from the top of the current page if no text is highlighted.
Use the Clear button to quickly empty out the Find type-in field.
Use the Dismiss button to dismiss the Find In Document window.
The Find in Document menu item is equivalent to the Find in Document button .

Preferences=>
Use the Preferences menu to display the preferences pages.

Each preferences page has Apply, Reset, and Help buttons on the bottom of the page. Click on Apply to activate any changes you've made. Click on Reset to reset the settings to their last saved state. Click on Help to see the documentation about that particular page. This is displayed in another HotJava window. Use the Back navigation button to return to the current page.

Follow these links for information about each of the Preferences pages:

View Menu
Reload Page
Reloads the current page. This is useful if changes have been made to the current HTML source, if a page doesn't load correctly the first time, or to restart an applet that stopped running during a low memory condition. If you're reloading a page that has cached images, you may need to empty the cache before you can pick up changes to those images. See the information on Clear Cached Images, below.
Reload Page is equivalent to the Reload button .
Stop Loading
Stops all loading of the current page. This menu item is available only while a page is being loaded. Only the loading of a page is stopped; if an applet has been loaded and is running, this will not stop the applet. If the HotJava Browser is making a connection when you choose Stop Loading, HotJava still completes the connection attempt.
Stop Loading is equivalent to the Stop button .
Clear Cached Images
Clears images and document backgrounds cached by HotJava. The cache is a location in memory where images that have been loaded are temporarily stored. This increases performance, because it is then quicker to revisit pages since the images don't have to be reloaded over the network. When you use the Reload button or the Reload Page menu item, HotJava looks to the image cache before loading images on a remote page. You'll therefore need to clear the cache (empty it) if you want to force HotJava to reload the images over the network, thereby picking up recent changes.
HTML Source
Opens a page in which the HTML source for the current page is displayed.

The HTML displayed has been parsed and formatted by HotJava. If you'd like to see the original, unformatted HTML source file, follow the link to the original source at the top of the displayed page.

You can save the HTML text to a file using the File menu's Save item.

HTML Errors
HotJava verifies HTML pages, which is useful if you're developing your own page or having troubles displaying a page. When there are HTML errors in the currently displayed page, the HTML Errors menu item is activated.

Choose HTML Errors from the View menu to display the errors. Alternatively, if you are displaying the HTML Errors button (described below), click on the button when it is active to display the errors.

The HotJava verifier is very thorough. Some HTML errors listed may be benign errors that don't adversely affect the display of the page in HotJava or other browsers. However, because the verification is so thorough, it's an excellent way to make sure your HTML pages are correct.

When the HotJava Browser encounters HTML errors, it tries to recover from the errors in an attempt to display the page as the author intended. If you would like to turn off this error recovery so that HotJava displays the page exactly as the HTML is written, even when errors occur, set your hotjava.parser.strict property to TRUE. (It is FALSE by default.) See Customizing the HotJava Browser for information about the HotJava properties and properties files.

If you use the HTML Errors feature often to debug HTML pages, you can add add a button that becomes active whenever a page is displayed with HTML errors, but which is inactive otherwise. You can then click on this button when it's active to see the errors.

To add this button, choose Show HTML Errors Button on the Edit->Preferences->Display page, then click Apply.

If you add the HTML Errors button, it looks like this:

HTML Errors button when current page has HTML errors
HTML Errors button when current page does not have HTML errors

Character Set
The HotJava Browser supports the Unicode 2.0 character set, and can display both Latin and non-Latin Unicode characters from regions all over the globe.

To view HTML pages that use an alternate character set, choose that charcter set from the Character Set menus. Only one alternate character set can be specified at any one time. You can see which character set is currently selected by finding the character set in the submenus with a selected check box.

If the http server sends information with a page telling the HotJava Browser what character set the page uses, HotJava will automatically choose that character set to display the page.

In the Japanese character set submenu, you can choose Auto Detect. If you do, the HotJava Browser tries to analyze the page to figure out which of the Japanese character sets it should use.

To successfully view a page with an alternate character set, you must have the appropriate system fonts available on