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Apply Source Formatting deletes code

Forum|Forum|1 year ago
August 13, 2024
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After typing a line of CSS and choosing Edit > Code > Apply Source Formatting, the entire line is deleted.

Undo also does not work in this case (does not undo the deletion, or bring back the line of code), so it is just gone.

(Screen capture attached.)

I use the auto formatting constantly, so this is a critical bug for me.

dreamweaver-apply-source-formatting-deletes-code.zip

Nancy OShea

Community Expert

OK. Unusual behavior usually means your Preferences File is corrupted. Restore it and that should fix the problems.

https://helpx.adobe.com/dreamweaver/kb/restore-preferences-dreamweaver.html

Nancy O'Shea— Product User & Community Expert

platypusmanAuthor

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Thanks Nancy.

Unfortunately that workaround didn't help.

When trying that, it also did something odd that didn't happen previously, which was to leave a stray period in place of the class it removed. I don't know what's causing this.

(Screen recording: https://app.screencast.com/UXpQ3eDYUTYXP )

Nancy OShea

Community Expert

Try saving your document first to commit changes to hard disk -- File > Save (Ctrl/Cmd + S).

Then Apply Source Formatting.

Nancy O'Shea— Product User & Community Expert

platypusmanAuthor

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p.s.:

Dreamweaver version 21.4
15620 Build

macOS Sonoma 14.5 on M2 MacBook Air

(Couldn't figure out how to edit my post to add this)

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