Chapter 2. Customizing Code View

Macromedia Dreamweaver 8 uses two devices in Code view that help you enter code quickly and make your code readable and accurate. These two devices are code hints and code coloring. In addition, Dreamweaver validates your code for the target browsers that you specify and allows you to change default HTML formatting.

You can customize code hints and code coloring by modifying the XML files that implement them. You can add items to the Code Hints menus by adding entries to the CodeHints.xml file. You can modify color schemes by modifying the code coloring style file, Colors.xml, or you can change code coloring schemes or add new ones by modifying one of the code coloring syntax files, such as CodeColoring.xml. You can also modify the cascading style sheet (CSS) profile file for your target browser to affect how Dreamweaver validates CSS properties and values. You can also change Dreamweaver's default HTML formatting through the Preferences dialog box. The following sections describe how to customize these features.