Dreamweaver: Sort Lists
Until Dreamweaver comes up with a sort list function, there has to be a workaround and here’s mine for really long lists – although there are numerous ways, including copying the text out to something like Excel, this one only involves using a simple text editor. The Workaround Begin by removing the list formatting, if any, then copy the list to the clipboard. Open a new file in a text editor – Notepad on the pc and TextEdit on the Mac (if you’re using the latter and you can se a formatting bar at the top of your document, switch to plain text mode using shift-cmd-T before you paste). Paste in your list, then save the file as a .csv file; quit the text editor. Back in Dreamweaver, it might be a good idea … Read entire article »
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Random Tip 33
This week a really basic random tip is how to make quick duplicates in your Adobe Design Premium apps. I am often surprised to find so many people are completely unaware of this basic skill so here it is presented in video, and in five apps! … Read entire article »
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Random Tip 31
Dreamweaver can give you information about the specificity of a CSS rule when you turn on rules view in the CSS panel, then if you hover over a selector you’ll get specificity information in a comma-delimited format like this 0,2,0,2. To calculate specificity you count within each selector the number of inline styles, id’s, classes and element names – so in the pictured example the selector is #wrap #sidebar ul li which contains no inline styles … Read entire article »
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Random Tip 27
The magic of the bracket keys knows no boundary – yes, they even work in Dreamweaver! If you’re used to using the Select Parent Tag button in the Code View Toolbar then you’ll be even faster if you use your system key (command on the Mac, ctrl on PC – it’s how I refer to them at work and also how I’m going to start referring to them here, I think) and the left bracket key. In design view you can move up to parent tags with the system key and left bracket and back down using system key and the right bracket. … Read entire article »
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Random Tip 24
If your code gets a bit messy in Dreamweaver don’t forget that you’ve got the Format Source Code command which can be found in the Commands menu or in the coding toolbar (it’s the last icon at the very bottom) – one click and you’re done. You can edit the formatting settings in the Dreamweaver preferences dialog if they don’t meet your requirements by default (which can also be accessed via the button in the … Read entire article »
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