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Options Auto-Indent option. For more information, see Set the code appearance.
With (Text box and pop-up menu) Specifies how many spaces or tabs Dreamweaver should use to indent code that it
generates. For example, if you type 3 in the box and select Tabs in the pop-up menu, then code generated by Dreamweaver
is indented using three tab characters for every level of indentation.
Tab Size Determines how many characters wide each tab character appears in Code view. For example, if Tab Size is set to
4, then each tab is displayed in Code view as a four-character-wide blank space. If, additionally, Indent With is set to 3 Tabs,
then code generated by Dreamweaver is indented using three tab characters for every level of indentation, which appears in
Code view as a twelve-character-wide blank space.
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.
Set the code rewriting preferences
Use the code rewriting preferences to specify how and whether Dreamweaver modifies your code while opening documents, when copying and
pasting form elements, and when entering attribute values and URLs using tools such as the Property inspector. These preferences have no effect
when you edit HTML or scripts in Code view.
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, <b><i>text</b></i> is rewritten as
<b><i>text</i></b>. 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.
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