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  1. Dreamweaver User Guide
  2. Introduction
    1. Responsive web design basics
    2. What's new in Dreamweaver
    3. Web development using Dreamweaver - An Overview
    4. Dreamweaver / Common Questions
    5. Keyboard shortcuts
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    7. Feature summary
  3. Dreamweaver and Creative Cloud
    1. Synchronize Dreamweaver settings with Creative Cloud
    2. Creative Cloud Libraries in Dreamweaver
    3. Using Photoshop files in Dreamweaver
    4. Work with Adobe Animate and Dreamweaver
    5. Extract web-optimized SVG files from Libraries
  4. Dreamweaver workspaces and views
    1. The Dreamweaver workspace
    2. Optimize Dreamweaver workspace for visual development
    3. Search files based on filename or content | Mac OS
  5. Set up sites
    1. About Dreamweaver sites
    2. Set up a local version of your site
    3. Connect to a publishing server
    4. Set up a testing server
    5. Import and export Dreamweaver site settings
    6. Bring existing websites from a remote server to your local site root
    7. Accessibility features in Dreamweaver
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    9. Set site preferences for transferring files
    10. Specify proxy server settings in Dreamweaver
    11. Synchronize Dreamweaver settings with Creative Cloud
    12. Using Git in Dreamweaver
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    6. Compare files for differences
    7. Cloak files and folders in your Dreamweaver site
    8. Enable Design Notes for Dreamweaver sites
    9. Preventing potential Gatekeeper exploit
  7. Layout and design
    1. Use visual aids for layout
    2. About using CSS to lay out your page
    3. Design responsive websites using Bootstrap
    4. Creating and using media queries in Dreamweaver
    5. Present content with tables
    6. Colors
    7. Responsive design using fluid grid layouts
    8. Extract in Dreamweaver
  8. CSS
    1. Understand Cascading Style Sheets
    2. Laying out pages using CSS Designer
    3. Using CSS preprocessors in Dreamweaver
    4. How to set CSS Style preferences in Dreamweaver
    5. Move CSS rules in Dreamweaver
    6. Convert inline CSS to a CSS rule in Dreamweaver
    7. Work with div tags
    8. Apply gradients to background
    9. Create and edit CSS3 transition effects in Dreamweaver
    10. Format code
  9. Page content and assets
    1. Set page properties
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    3. Work with text
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    5. DOM panel
    6. Edit in Live View
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    9. Set text properties in the Property inspector
    10. Spell check a web page
    11. Using horizontal rules in Dreamweaver
    12. Add and modify font combinations in Dreamweaver
    13. Work with assets
    14. Insert and update dates in Dreamweaver
    15. Create and manage favorite assets in Dreamweaver
    16. Insert and edit images in Dreamweaver
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    18. Adding videos in Dreamweaver
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    22. Insert HTML5 audio in Dreamweaver
    23. Work with library items
    24. Using Arabic and Hebrew text in Dreamweaver
  10. Linking and navigation
    1. About linking and navigation
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  11. jQuery widgets and effects
    1. Use jQuery UI and mobile widgets in Dreamweaver
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  12. Coding websites
    1. About coding in Dreamweaver
    2. Coding environment in Dreamweaver
    3. Set coding preferences
    4. Customize code coloring
    5. Write and edit code
    6. Code hinting and code completion
    7. Collapse and expand code
    8. Reuse code with snippets
    9. Lint code
    10. Optimize code
    11. Edit code in Design view
    12. Work with head content for pages
    13. Insert server-side includes in Dreamweaver
    14. Using tag libraries in Dreamweaver
    15. Importing custom tags into Dreamweaver
    16. Use JavaScript behaviors (general instructions)
    17. Apply built-in JavaScript behaviors
    18. About XML and XSLT
    19. Perform server-side XSL transformations in Dreamweaver
    20. Performing client-side XSL transformations in Dreamweaver
    21. Add character entities for XSLT in Dreamweaver
    22. Format code
  13. Cross-product workflows
    1. Installing and using extensions to Dreamweaver
    2. In-App updates in Dreamweaver
    3. Insert Microsoft Office documents in Dreamweaver (Windows only)
    4. Working with Fireworks and Dreamweaver
    5. Edit content in Dreamweaver sites using Contribute
    6. Dreamweaver-Business Catalyst integration
    7. Create personalized email campaigns
  14. Templates
    1. About Dreamweaver templates
    2. Recognizing templates and template-based documents
    3. Create a Dreamweaver template
    4. Create editable regions in templates
    5. Create repeating regions and tables in Dreamweaver
    6. Use optional regions in templates
    7. Define editable tag attributes in Dreamweaver
    8. How to create nested templates in Dreamweaver
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    10. Export and import xml content in Dreamweaver
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    12. Edit content in Dreamweaver templates
    13. Syntax rules for template tags in Dreamweaver
    14. Set highlighting preferences for template regions
    15. Benefits of using templates in Dreamweaver
  15. Mobile and multiscreen
    1. Create media queries
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    3. Create web apps for mobile devices using Dreamweaver
  16. Dynamic sites, pages and web forms
    1. Understand web applications
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    3. Troubleshoot database connections
    4. Removing connection scripts in Dreamweaver
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    6. Dynamic content sources overview
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    9. Changing dynamic content in Dreamweaver
    10. Display database records
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    12. Add custom server behaviors in Dreamweaver
    13. Building forms using Dreamweaver
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    15. Create and enable ColdFusion forms in Dreamweaver
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    17. Enhanced HTML5 support for form elements
    18. Develop a form using Dreamweaver
  17. Building applications visually
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    2. Build search and results pages
    3. Build a record insert page
    4. Build an update record page in Dreamweaver
    5. Building record delete pages in Dreamweaver
    6. Use ASP commands to modify database in Dreamweaver
    7. Build a registration page
    8. Build a login page
    9. Build a page that only authorized users can access
    10. Securing folders in Coldfusion using Dreamweaver
    11. Using ColdFusion components in Dreamweaver
  18. Test, preview, and publish websites
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    3. Test your Dreamweaver site
  19. Troubleshooting
    1. Fixed issues
    2. Known issues

 

 

Set preferences that control the format of your code whenever you create or edit a file.

Format code manually

  1. Open a supported file.

  2. Select Edit > Code > Apply Source Formatting.

    Or, select Apply Source Formatting from Common Toolbar > Format Source Code.

Format selected code in a file manually

  1. Open the code.

  2. Select any part of the code.

  3. Select Edit > Code > Apply Source Formatting To Selection.

    Or, select Apply Source Formatting to selection from Common toolbar-> Format Source Code.

    Note:

    If you select a code in between of any tag and apply source formatting to the selection, then formatting is applied till the parent tag.

Edit default rules for code formatting

You can customize the CSS, JS, and PHP code formatting by adding formatting rules in .jsbeautifyrc file in your site root folder.

To add the .jsbeautifyrc file, follow the steps:

Note:
  • The following instructions are applicable only for CSS, JS, and PHP documents.
  • HTML tags in a PHP document are formatted as per preferences in tag libraries.  You can format the code within PHP blocks with below instructions.
  1. Create a new file in the site root with filename as .jsbeautifyrc

  2. Copy paste below default formatting rules for CSS, JS, and PHP in .jsbeautifyrc and save the file.

    { 
     
        "js": { 
     
            "eol": "\n", 
     
            "preserve_newlines": true, 
     
            "max_preserve_newlines": 3, 
     
            "space_after_anon_function": true, 
     
            "keep_array_indentation": false, 
     
            "space_before_conditional": true, 
     
            "break_chained_methods": false, 
     
            "unescape_strings": false, 
     
            "wrap_line_length": 0, 
     
            "end_with_newline": true, 
     
            "comma_first": false, 
     
            "operator_position": "after-newline" 
     
        }, 
     
        "css": { 
     
            "preserve_newlines": false, 
     
            "selector_separator_newline" : false, 
     
            "end_with_newline": false, 
     
            "newline_between_rules": false, 
     
            "space_around_selector_separator": true 
     
        }, 
     
        "php": { 
     
            "eol": "\n", 
     
            "preserve_newlines": true, 
     
            "max_preserve_newlines": 3, 
     
            "space_after_anon_function": true, 
     
            "brace_style": "collapse", 
     
            "keep_array_indentation": false, 
     
            "space_before_conditional": true, 
     
            "break_chained_methods": false, 
     
            "unescape_strings": false, 
     
            "wrap_line_length": 0, 
     
            "end_with_newline": false, 
     
            "comma_first": false, 
     
            "space_in_paren":true 
     
        } 
     
    }
  3. Edit the default rules to change the default code formatting rules as per below table and save the changes.

  4. Relaunch Dreamweaver and apply code formatting for a CSS, JS, and PHP file.

    Code is formatted as per the updated formatting rules.

Note:

If you want to customize the code formatting for PHP, CSS, and JS files in other Dreamweaver sites then you need to place the customized file .jsbeautifyrc in the site root folder.

Rules for CSS, JS, and PHP formatting:

CSS Rules Default values in Dreamweaver Description
  preserve_newlines false Whether to preserve empty lines.
selector_separator_newline false

Whether to put a newline between comma-separated selectors.

For Example: ".div, .P"

end_with_newline false Whether to end the file with an empty line.
newline_between_rules false Whether to add a new line after every CSS rule.
space_around_selector_separator true

To ensure space around selector separators:  '>', '+', '~'

For Example: "a>b" would become "a > b" on applying source formatting.

JS Rules Default values in Dreamweaver Description
  "eol" "\n" Character used to represent end of line.
preserve_newlines true Whether to preserve empty lines.
max_preserve_newlines 3

For "max_preserve_newlines": N, 

N-1 empty lines are preserved on applying formatting, when more than N-1 empty lines are present in the JS file.

Note: max_preserve_newlines is only applicable if preserve_newlines is set to true.

space_after_anon_function true

Whether to add space before an anonymous function's parenthesis.

For Example:"function()" would become "function ()" on applying source formatting.

keep_array_indentation false Allow or preserve newline inside array body.
space_before_conditional true

Whether to add a space before a conditional statement

For Example:  "if(true)"  would become "if (true)" on applying formatting.

break_chained_methods false

Allow or preserve newline between chained functions.

For Example:

`foobar().baz()`

unescape_strings false

Should printable characters in strings encoded in \xNN notation be unescaped.

For Example:

"\x65\x78\x61\x6d\x70\x6c\x65" would become "example" on applying source formatting.

wrap_line_length 0 Lines should wrap at next opportunity after these number of characters.
end_with_newline true

To ensure a newline is added at the end of file.

comma_first false While breaking a line at comma, this flag is used to ensure comma is the first char of line.
operator_position after-newline

If a long conditional expression is broken into multiple lines then this flag is used to define the position of  operators in the lines.

You can edit the flag with below values:

  • before-newline
  • after-newline
  • preserve-newline
Note:

The rules for PHP formatting are same as for JS formatting (described in above table) with two additional rules given below:

PHP Rules Default values in Dreamweaver Description
  brace_style collapse

You can control curly brackets position with this option:

For Example:

function f() {

// code

}

or 

function f()

{

// Code

}

You can assign below values:

  • "collapse" - put curly brackets on the same line as control statements
  • "expand" - put curly brackets on own line (Allman / ANSI style)
  • "end-expand" - put end curly brackets on own line
  • "none" - attempt to keep them where they are
  • any of the former + ",preserve-inline"- preserve-inline tries to preserve inline blocks of curly brackets
space_in_paren true

Whether to add spaces inside the parenthesis.

For Example:

include('header.php')

would become

include( 'header.php' ) on applying formatting

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