Operation Manual

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USING DREAMWEAVER
Working with page code
Last updated 3/28/2012
4 Click the Edit Coloring Scheme button.
5 In the Edit Coloring Scheme dialog box, select a code element from the Styles For list, and set its text color,
background color, and (optional) style (bold, italic, or underline). The sample code in the Preview pane changes to
match the new colors and styles.
Click OK to save your changes and close the Edit Coloring Scheme dialog box.
6 Make any other necessary selections in Code Coloring preferences and click OK.
Default background sets the default background color for Code view and the Code inspector.
Hidden characters sets the color for hidden characters.
Live Code background sets the background color for Live Code view. The default color is yellow.
Live Code changes sets the highlighting color of code that changes in Live Code view. The default color is pink.
Read only background sets the background color for read only text.
More Help topics
“Customize code coloring preferences for a template” on page 397
“Edit libraries, tags, and attributes” on page 324
“Preview Live Code” on page 273
“Set code hints preferences” on page 289
Use an external editor
You can specify an external editor to use for editing files with specific filename extensions. For example, you can start
a text editor such as BBEdit, Notepad, or TextEdit from Dreamweaver to edit JavaScript (JS) files.
You can assign different external editors for different filename extensions.
More Help topics
“Open files in Code view by default” on page 282
Set an external editor for a file type
1 Select Edit > Preferences.
2 Select File Types/Editors from the Category list on the left, set the options, and click OK.
Open In Code View Specifies the filename extensions that automatically open in Code view in Dreamweaver.
External Code Editor Specifies the text editor to use.
Reload Modified Files Specifies the behavior when Dreamweaver detects that changes were made externally to a
document that is open in Dreamweaver.
Save On Launch Specifies whether Dreamweaver should always save the current document before starting the editor,
never save the document, or prompt you to ask whether to save or not each time you start the external editor.
Fireworks Specifies editors for various media file types.
Start an external code editor
❖ Select Edit > Edit with External Editor.