Dreamweaver 8

momuncoderlife · #1 4th Nov 2007

Ok, I'm new at this program. How do I set dreamweaver so that while I'm inputting html codes into the program, it'll automatically ask me if this is the code I want.

Example, I type: <htm

It should ask me if I want <html> </html>

Like, it should ask me if this is the code I'm wanting. Because right now, it isn't bringing up anything, and I do not know all the codes by memory. Thanks a lot.

**SirStukings** · #2 5th Nov 2007

I've used this program a while, and I don't think it can do that.
Can't you do it by hand?

Here's a website for codes:

http://www.web-source.net/html_codes_chart.htm

**dr john** · #3 8th Nov 2007

It should do this when you stop typing, or complete the code enough for it to be recognised.

For example, I just typed <p and it offered options to autocomplete the code, and I've got an old MX (2002) version.

Have a look at Edit >Preferences >Code hints (found by looking in the Help section, which you could have tried yourself I think) and choose Enable Auto Tag Completion or Enable Code Hints

On the other hand, when you start a new page, it automatically adds
<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01 Transitional//EN">
<html>
<head>
<title>Untitled Document</title>
<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=iso-8859-1">
</head>
<body>
</body>
</html>
to the page (Or similar, depending on the version you have), so why are you entering <html></html> manually?

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