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Chapter 20: Coding in Dreamweaver
Supported languages
In addition to text-editing capabilities, Dreamweaver provides various features, such as code
hints, to help you code in certain languages. These languages include:
hints, to help you code in certain languages. These languages include:
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HTML
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XHTML
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CSS
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JavaScript
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ColdFusion Markup Language (CFML)
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Visual Basic (for ASP and ASP.NET)
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C# (for ASP.NET)
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JSP
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PHP
Certain other languages, such as Perl, are not supported by the language-specific coding
features in Dreamweaver; you can create and edit Perl files using Dreamweaver, but code hints
(for example) don’t apply to that language.
features in Dreamweaver; you can create and edit Perl files using Dreamweaver, but code hints
(for example) don’t apply to that language.
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About fixing invalid markup
If your document contains invalid code, Dreamweaver displays that code in Design view and
optionally highlights it in Code view. If you select the code in either view, the Property
inspector displays information about why it’s invalid and how to fix it.
optionally highlights it in Code view. If you select the code in either view, the Property
inspector displays information about why it’s invalid and how to fix it.
You can specify preferences in Dreamweaver for automatically rewriting various kinds of
invalid code when you open a document.
invalid code when you open a document.
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