Adobe Dreamweaver CC 2014 v.13 - Manual (Page 465)

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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 tag, or immediately before a tag. When you select this option, Dreamweaver does
not write line breaks after a or before a 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, 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.
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