Setting Your Code Preferences

There are a number of preferences you can set for HTML. The three categories in Dreamweaver preferences that apply to HTML—Code Colors, Code Format, and Code Rewriting—help control the way Dreamweaver creates and displays the code in your Web pages.

Don't change a setting in preferences if you aren't sure what it does. Many of Dreamweaver's default settings reflect the standard way of creating Web pages. Change them if you need to, but know that you could inadvertently cause a problem if you change them blindly.

Setting the Code Colors Preferences

The tags in Code view display color that is coded according to the settings ...

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