Chapter 11. Under the Hood: HTML
Dreamweaver started life primarily as a visual web page editor, but it also hosts powerful code-editing tools that let you work on your pages’ HTML, CSS, and JavaScript code directly. In fact, in recognition of the ever-multiplying types of files that today’s websites use, Dreamweaver lets you edit all kinds of text-based files, including XML, Java, ActionScript, and just plain text itself.
Dreamweaver’s code editor includes professional features like customizable syntax highlighting, auto indenting, line numbering, and code hints; code collapse, so you can concentrate on just the code you want; and the Code view toolbar, which provides one-click access to frequently used hand-coding commands. Dreamweaver may be the only web-page creation program that even hard-core code junkies ever need. In fact, Adobe aimed many of Dreamweaver CS5’s improvements at those who use Code view to edit pages in HTML, CSS, JavaScript, and the server-side programming language PHP.
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