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Convert tags to lowercase

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March 8, 2017
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In previous versions of DW, in code view, you could select all, right click, choose Selection/Convert tags to lowercase. That is not available in DW CC even though the manual gives that as the instruction on page 390. I've reported this to software engineers but does anyone know of a way to convert tags to lowercase besides individually in the tag library? Thanks.

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sjibben

Inspiring

In Windows, these options still exist in the registry. I have used these setting up to DW 2020. Below are settings for DW 2020, change the year for other versions.

[HKEY_CURRENT_USER\SOFTWARE\Adobe\Dreamweaver 2020\Source Format]

"Tags Upper Case"="FALSE"

"Force Tag Case"="TRUE"

"Attrs Upper Case"="FALSE"
"Force Attr Case"="TRUE"

These settings will convert all tags/attributes to lower case when a file is opened. It usually works but I have seen files where not all tags/attributes were converted.

NOTE: This does not save the file with the changed tags/attributes. You have to change the file and save in order for it to be kept.

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jmyers2

Known Participant

Thank you for this! But what file am I looking for to change this? I don't see a file or folder called Source Format.

Nancy OShea

Community Expert

Show hidden files & folders in your OS's File Manager.

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Paul-M

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Post a vote here to have this feature restored:

Missing Edit > Preferences > Code Format > default tag case – Adobe Dreamweaver CC: Feature Ideas

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EASYPAY GROUP

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Voted, thank you for your help.

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Paul-M

Legend

You are welcome ... My approach at the moment is to have both Dreamweaver CC 2015 and Dreamweaver CC 2019 installed together ... and if I need to use the apply source formatting tool I'll quickly open the file(s) in Dreamweaver CC 2015 to do that .....

The next release of Dreamweaver should fix a lot of issues with the apply source formatting tool, hopefully they'll manaage to put the global setting for upper/lowercase tags back in too (fingers crossed)

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Paul-M

Legend

OK ... I tested in the latest pre-release of Dreamweaver and the 'apply source formatting' tool DOES convert tags to lowercase or uppercase depending on your settings in tag libraries, so it seems this has been fixed in the next release

However I still don't see a way to set a global default for upper or lowercase tags? Which presumbaly means you have to set case of each tag individually in tag libraries as the setting 'default' seems to do nothing? The seems a bit tedious.

So unless I'm mistaken you'll have to install CC 2015 to do this for now ....

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Paul-M

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As far as I can see, Dreamweaver CC 2015 Is the last verion to have the convert case of tags feature, since CC 2017 when Brackets was integrated its been lost and also there's no option to select the default case of tags in edit > preferences > code format either from CC 2017 onwards.

Does apply source formatting work and convert tags to lowercase if you have it set in Tag libraries? It does NOT when I tested in CC 2019 (Windows 10).

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Nancy OShea

Community Expert

You're right. It's broken.

Something is missing from the Format Code panel.

If you attempt to make lowercase the default in Tag Library Editor, a warning message pops up directing users back to the Format Code panel. !!!????

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Paul-M

Legend

Yep the Dreamweaver pre release at least fixes the formatting of tags to upper/lowecase but you have set case of EACH tag one by one in tag libraries as they've never restored the global option that used to be there in CC 2015.

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Jon Fritz

Community Expert

It appears the option to convert tags to upper/lower case has been removed from the context menu all together. I can't find any documentation on it though, most other menu changes are documented by Adobe here:

Redesigned menus

Unfortunately, the option Paula points to will affect ALL selected text, not just the tags that may need to be corrected within a large block of code, potentially leading to a huge number of selections being made in a single document.

This would be a good candidate for "a feature returning to the program". I know I'd up vote it at Help > Submit Bug/Feature Request if you start a new thread there.

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ArtistCrystalAuthor

Participating Frequently

Yes, I've already reported it as a bug and I really need it available in the contextual menu again. The DW CC manual still has the instructions to do it like I've always done it but it is not listed in the menu.