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Last updated 3/28/2012
Chapter 11: Working with page code
General information about coding in Dreamweaver
More Help topics
“Code hints” on page 287
“Setting coding preferences” on page 282
“Customizing keyboard shortcuts” on page 282
“Make pages XHTML-compliant” on page 308
“Search for tags, attributes, or text in code” on page 300
“Save and recall search patterns” on page 301
“Optimizing the workspace for visual development” on page 525
“Displaying database records” on page 555
Supported languages
In addition to text-editing capabilities, Adobe® Dreamweaver® CS5 provides various features, such as code hints, to
help you code in the following languages:
• HTML
• XHTML
• CSS
• JavaScript
• ColdFusion Markup Language (CFML)
• VBScript (for ASP)
• C# and Visual Basic (for ASP.NET)
• JSP
• PHP
Other languages, such as Perl, are not supported by the language-specific coding features in Dreamweaver; for
example, you can create and edit Perl files, but code hints don’t apply to that language.
Invalid markup
If your document contains invalid code, Dreamweaver displays that code in Design view and optionally highlights it
in Code view. If you select the code in either view, the Property inspector displays information about why it’s invalid
and how to fix it.
Note: The option to highlight invalid code in Code view is turned off by default. To turn it on, switch to Code View
(View
> Code) and then select View > Code View Options > Highlight Invalid Code.
You can also specify preferences for automatically rewriting various kinds of invalid code when you open a document.