User Guide

100 Chapter 5: Customizing Code View
To make the process of defining schemes more flexible, Dreamweaver lets you specify wildcard
and escape characters.
Wildcard characters
The following is a list of wildcard characters that Dreamweaver supports, along with the strings to
specify them and descriptions of their usage.
cssProperty X
cssSelector X
cssValue X
character X X
function keyword X
identifier X
number X X
operator X
brackets X X
keywords X X
Wildcard Escape
string
Description
Wildcard
\*
Skip all characters in the rule until the character that follows the
wildcard is found. For example, use
<MMTInstance:Editable
name=”\*”>
to match all tags of this type that have the name attribute
specified.
Wildcard with
escape character
\e*x
Where x is the escape character.
This is the same as the wildcard, except that an escape character
can be specified. The character following any escape character is
ignored. This lets the character following the wildcard appear in the
string without matching the criteria to end wildcard processing.
For example,
/\e*\\/ is used to recognize a JavaScript regular
expression that starts and ends with a forward slash (/) and can
contain forward slashes that are preceded by a backslash (\).
Because the backslash is the code coloring escape character, you
must precede it with a backslash when you specify it in code
coloring XML.
Field CSS Tags Script