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USING DREAMWEAVER

Working with page code

Last updated 3/28/2012

If you disable the rewriting options, invalid-markup items are displayed in the Document window for HTML that it

would have rewritten.

1 Select Edit > Preferences (Windows) or Dreamweaver > Preferences (Macintosh).

2 Select Code Rewriting from the Category list on the left.

3 Set any of the following options:

Fix Invalidly Nested and Unclosed Tags Rewrites overlapping tags. For example, text is rewritten as

text. This option also inserts closing quotation marks and closing brackets if they are missing.

Rename Form Items When Pasting Ensures you don’t have duplicate names for form objects. This option is enabled by

default.

Note: Unlike the other options in this preferences dialog box, this option does not apply when you open a document, only

when you copy and paste a form element.

Remove Extra Closing Tags Deletes closing tags that have no corresponding opening tag.

Warn When Fixing Or Removing Tags Displays a summary of technically invalid HTML that Dreamweaver attempted

to correct. The summary notes the location of the problem (using line and column numbers) so that you can find the

correction and ensure that it’s rendering as intended.

Never Rewrite Code: In Files With Extensions Allows you to prevent Dreamweaver from rewriting code in files with

the specified filename extensions. This option is particularly useful for files that contain third-party tags.

Encode <, >, &, And " In Attribute Values Using & Ensures that attribute values that you enter or edit using

Dreamweaver tools such as the Property inspector contain only legal characters. This option is enabled by default.

Note: This option and the following options do not apply to URLs that you type in Code view. Also, they do not cause

existing code already in a file to change.

Do Not Encode Special Characters Prevents Dreamweaver from changing URLs to use only legal characters. This

option is enabled by default.

Encode Special Characters In URL Using &# Ensures that when you enter or edit URLs using Dreamweaver tools such

as the Property inspector, those URLs contain only legal characters.

Encode Special Characters In URL Using % Operates the same way as the preceding option, but uses a different method

of encoding special characters. This encoding method (using the percent sign) may be more compatible with older

browsers, but doesn’t work as well with characters from some languages.