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USING DREAMWEAVER

Working with page code

Last updated 3/28/2012

Note: Dreamweaver indents using either spaces or tabs; it doesn’t convert a run of spaces to a tab when inserting code.

Line Break Type Specifies the type of remote server (Windows, Macintosh, or UNIX) that hosts your remote site.

Choosing the correct type of line break characters ensures that your HTML source code appears correctly when viewed

on the remote server. This setting is also useful when you are working with an external text editor that recognizes only

certain kinds of line breaks. For example, use CR LF (Windows) if Notepad is your external editor, and use CR

(Macintosh) if SimpleText is your external editor.

Note: For servers that you connect to using FTP, this option applies only to binary transfer mode; the ASCII transfer mode

in Dreamweaver ignores this option. If you download files using ASCII mode, Dreamweaver sets line breaks based on the

operating system of your computer; if you upload files using ASCII mode, the line breaks are all set to CR LF.

Default Tag Case and Default Attribute Case Control the capitalization of tag and attribute names. These options are

applied to tags and attributes that you insert or edit in Design view, but they are not applied to the tags and attributes

that you enter directly in Code view, or to the tags and attributes already in a document when you open it (unless you

also select one or both of the Override Case Of options).

Note: These preferences apply only to HTML pages. Dreamweaver ignores them for XHTML pages because uppercase tags

and attributes are invalid XHTML.

Override Case Of: Tags and Attributes Specifies whether to enforce your specified case options at all times, including

when you open an existing HTML document. When you select one of these options and click OK to dismiss the dialog

box, all tags or attributes in the current document are immediately converted to the specified case, as are all tags or

attributes in each document you open from then on (until you deselect this option again). Tags or attributes you type

in Code view and in the Quick Tag Editor are also converted to the specified case, as are tags or attributes you insert

using the Insert panel. For example, if you want tag names always to be converted to lowercase, specify lowercase in

the Default Tag Case option, and then select the Override Case Of: Tags option. Then when you open a document that

contains uppercase tag names, Dreamweaver converts them all to lowercase.

Note: Older versions of HTML allowed either uppercase or lowercase tag and attribute names, but XHTML requires

lowercase for tag and attribute names. The web is moving toward XHTML, so it’s generally best to use lowercase tag and

attribute names.

TD Tag: Do Not Include A Break Inside The TD Tag Addresses a rendering problem that occurs in some older browsers

when white space or line breaks exist immediately after a <td> tag, or immediately before a </td> tag. When you select

this option, Dreamweaver does not write line breaks after a <td> or before a </td> tag, even if the formatting in the

Tag Library indicates that the line break should be there.

Advanced Formatting Lets you set formatting options for Cascading Style Sheets(CSS) code and for individual tags

and attributes in the Tag Library Editor.

White Space Character (Japanese version only) Lets you select either   or Zenkaku space for HTML code. The

white space selected in this option will be used for empty tags when creating a table and when the “Allow Multiple

Consecutive Spaces” option is enabled in Japanese Encoding pages.