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USING DREAMWEAVER

Working with page code

Last updated 3/28/2012

Optimizing and debugging code

Clean up code

You can automatically remove empty tags, combine nested font tags, and otherwise improve messy or unreadable

HTML or XHTML code.

For information on how to clean up HTML generated from a Microsoft Word document, see “Open and edit existing

documents” on page 65.

1 Open a document:

• If the document is in HTML, select Commands > Clean Up HTML.

• If the document is in XHTML, select Commands > Clean Up XHTML.

For an XHTML document, the Clean Up XHTML command fixes XHTML syntax errors, sets the case of tag attributes

to lowercase, and adds or reports the missing required attributes for a tag in addition to performing the HTML cleanup

operations.

2 In the dialog box that appears, select any of the options, and click OK.

Note: Depending on the size of your document and the number of options selected, it may take several seconds to complete

the cleanup.

Remove Empty Container Tags Removes any tags that have no content between them. For example, and

<font

color="#FF0000"> are empty tags, but the tag in some text is not.

Remove Redundant Nested Tags Removes all redundant instances of a tag. For example, in the code This is

what I really

wanted to say, the b tags surrounding the word really are redundant and would be removed.

Remove Non-Dreamweaver HTML Comments Removes all comments that were not inserted by Dreamweaver. For

example,

would be removed, but

wouldn’t, because it’s a Dreamweaver comment that marks the beginning of an editable region in a template.

Remove Dreamweaver Special Markup Removes comments that Dreamweaver adds to code to allow documents to be

automatically updated when templates and library items are updated. If you select this option when cleaning up code

in a template-based document, the document is detached from the template. For more information, see

“Detach a

document from a template” on page 392.

Remove Specific Tag(s) Removes the tags specified in the adjacent text box. Use this option to remove custom tags

inserted by other visual editors and other tags that you don’t want to appear on your site (for example,

blink). Separate

multiple tags with commas (for example,

font,blink).

Combine Nested Tags When Possible Consolidates two or more font tags when they control the same range of

text. For example,

<font

size="7">big red would be changed to <font size="7"

color="#FF0000">big red.

Show Log On Completion Displays an alert box with details about the changes made to the document as soon as the

cleanup is finished.