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Post May 6th, 2008, 7:26 pm

I'm not a big user of the Dreamweaver WYSIWYG editor, one reason being that it has <p> as the default for pressing Enter. Is there a way to change that default to put in <br> or <br /> instead?

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Post May 6th, 2008, 7:26 pm

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Post May 6th, 2008, 7:45 pm

Use code view and manually do it?
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Post May 6th, 2008, 7:51 pm

Thanks... That's what I normally do. I like to use the design view to quickly throw a simple table together sometimes, and I find it a big inconvenience to change a lot of <p> tags.

TinyMCE has an option to use <br> instead, I'd be surprised if Dreamweaver doesn't.
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Post May 6th, 2008, 8:04 pm

Doesn't look like it does. I just checked every possible preference. Line breaks are established by default (apparently) in Edit>Preferences (CTRL+U) under "code format>line break type". All three (Windows, Mac and Linux) appear to default to <p>
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Post May 6th, 2008, 8:12 pm

instead of hitting enter use shift+enter to get a <br> tag.
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Post May 6th, 2008, 8:32 pm

That's.. really too bad. Thanks a lot though, I'm glad I didn't have to go through Preferences for hours trying to find it.
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Post May 6th, 2008, 8:32 pm

SpooF wrote:
instead of hitting enter use shift+enter to get a <br> tag.


Ohh, awesome! That solves the problem well enough, thanks so much!
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Post May 6th, 2008, 9:12 pm

lol gotta love keyboard shortcuts. That's one I didnt know
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Post May 6th, 2008, 9:45 pm

Doesn't Dreamweaver has something like search/replace function? I don't really know as I don't have a Dreamweave but every HTML Editor has one... and Dreamweaver is a big program...
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Post May 8th, 2008, 1:32 pm

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Doesn't Dreamweaver has something like search/replace function? I don't really know as I don't have a Dreamweave but every HTML Editor has one... and Dreamweaver is a big program...

Yes it has Bogey.

Great shortcut spoof - thanks!

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Some more shortcuts for Dreamweaver:

http://www.nooti.com/design/dw-shortcuts.php
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Post May 8th, 2008, 8:11 pm

suzie wrote:
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Doesn't Dreamweaver has something like search/replace function? I don't really know as I don't have a Dreamweave but every HTML Editor has one... and Dreamweaver is a big program...

Yes it has Bogey.

Great shortcut spoof - thanks!

:mrgreen: :mrgreen:

Some more shortcuts for Dreamweaver:

http://www.nooti.com/design/dw-shortcuts.php

I misread the question anyway... oh well
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Post April 7th, 2010, 3:48 am

Great find. Good short cut.

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