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stephaneb34215240
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July 12, 2018
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Disabling automatic closing of brackets and parenthesis in DW CC 2018?

  • July 12, 2018
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Is there a way to disable the automatic insertion of closing brackets in DW 2018? I appreciate the HTML and PHP code completion but the closing of brackets drives me crazy.

Thanks in advance for your help!

    Correct answer Jon Fritz

    This post is 7 years and several versions out of date.

    In the intervening years, Adobe has added simple checkbox preferences to toggle the auto-completion of braces and quotes. It's in the same location I gave originally (Preferences > Code Hints). Now unchecking them will turn off the functions, making a modification to the same file as the manual instructions I gave previously...

     

     

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    jamesjbarnett
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    December 4, 2020

    Incredibly useful - only thing I'll add here is that typically when updating Dreamweaver CC is that it leaves the older folder in place (i.e. I upgraded from 2020 to 2021 but both folders are still in the directory). I found to get it working properly using this method I needed up update both version's JSON files (not sure why) but it seemed to fix it so I'm happy.

    Jon Fritz
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    Jon FritzCommunity ExpertCorrect answer
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    April 11, 2025

    This post is 7 years and several versions out of date.

    In the intervening years, Adobe has added simple checkbox preferences to toggle the auto-completion of braces and quotes. It's in the same location I gave originally (Preferences > Code Hints). Now unchecking them will turn off the functions, making a modification to the same file as the manual instructions I gave previously...

     

     

      Jon Fritz
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      Jon FritzCommunity Expert
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      July 12, 2018

      Go to Edit > Preferences > Code Hints and select the Never option for Close Tags...

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        stephaneb34215240Author
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        July 12, 2018

        I'm sorry, I meant characters like: { }, " ", ( )

        As soon as I type the opening one, DW inserts the closing one.

        I'm fine with the closing HTML tags.

        Jon Fritz
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        Jon FritzCommunity Expert
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        July 12, 2018

        Ah, that one you have to squish in the brackets.json file...

        1. On a PC, go to C: > Users > your user name >  AppData (make sure hidden files are turned on if you don't see this folder) > Roaming > Adobe > Dreamweaver CC 2018 > your language > Configuration > Brackets > brackets.json

        1a. On a Mac, this "should" be... (I don't have a Mac)

          a. do a search for  ~/Library/Application Support (make sure the ~ is there)

          b. hit Go

          c. next, go to Adobe > Dreamweaver CC 2017 > your language > Configuration > Brackets > brackets.json

        2. (make a back-up first so you can go back if you goof) Open the file in something other than DW

        3. If the option for closeBrackets doesn't already exist, add a comma to the last item on the list, then add the following to the end of the file, before the closing } ...

        "closeBrackets": false,

        (make sure the "b" in Brackets is capitalized)

        3. Save and open DW and that "should" stop the auto closing for you.

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