HOW TO REMOVE ORANGE CODE HIGHLIGHTING

Jon, the css above is when I tried to create a NEW theme.

I also went through the C drive and did a global search for MAIN.LESS and found 10 of them, out of this 5 had the CodeMirror-matchingtag etc which I also changed.

BG == #fff

Color == #000

Still nothing

So I changed the theme and now the orange has changed to a lite blue

Just marvelous...............

Jon

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/*
* Brackets Default Theme
*
* Defines all the variables that one can configure in a theme. This should
* contain all variables / mixins for UI styling that we want to be able to
* change in a theme.
*
* Throughout the rest of the LESS files we should _only_ use color
* variable names that are on the LHS of the list below. So, if we
* need a new color for some UI element, we should add a variable
* in this file.
*/

/*
  This LESS file contains code coloring configuration and the default colors specified
  in this files have been defined globaly. Which means if a selector defined below is
  being used in multiple document modes then all of those tokens will be colored using
  the color value specified here. In order to control the number of unique colors used,
  selectors are grouped together to distribute a limited number of colors across all
  possible tokens in different document modes.

  For example consider the following HTML snippet -
   ----------------------------------
    <div>
        My Sample content
    </div>
   ----------------------------------

  And the following CSS snippet -
   ----------------------------------
    div {
        color: #00f;
    }
   ----------------------------------

  In CC 2017, in both HTML and CSS doc modes 'div' has been assigned '.cm-tag' selector.
  This implies that if in this LESS file the selector group containing '.cm-tag' is assigned
  a color value '#446fbd', the tag name 'div' in HTML and the selector name 'div' in CSS will
  have the same color. For a more detailed understanding of tokens and selectors being used in
  different language modes, please go though the follwoing helpx page section -

  (https://helpx.adobe.com/dreamweaver/using/customize-code-coloring.html#Understandingselectors)

  However it's possible to specify different color values for these selectors targetting
  different language modes. What needs to be done is identify the tokens what's being used
  in a particular doc mode and target the corresponding selectors by nesting them under the
  MODE selector.

  For example let's take the snippets and case described above. If we want to override the
  default color of tag only in HTML mode, we need to append this selector after the "custom" marker
  in this LESS file.

   ----------------------------------------------
   .HTML {
        .cm-tag {
            color: <custom color here>;
        }
   }
   ----------------------------------------------

   This example can be expanded to include individual selectors or certain selectors grouped together.

   These are the list of popular language modes along with the file extensions which they are associated with. Any of these modes can be used as parent selectors and then the individual token color can be
   nested inside to make sure that we change only the targetted modes coloring.

    ->Groovy(groovy,gradle)
    ->Properties(ini,properties)
    ->CSS(css,css.erb)
    ->SCSS(scss,scss.erb)
    ->Stylus(styl)
    ->JavaScript(js,js.erb,jsm,_js)
    ->JSON(json)
    ->VBScript(vbs)
    ->VB(vb)
    ->XML(xml,wxs,wxl,wsdl,rss,atom,rdf,xslt,xsl,xul,xsd,xbl,mathml,config,plist,xaml)
    ->SVG(svg)
    ->HTML                  (html,htm,shtm,shtml,xhtml,cfm,cfml,cfc,dhtml,xht,tpl,twig,kit,jsp,aspx,ascx,asp,master,cshtml,vbhtml)
    ->EJS(ejs,dust)
    ->Embedded Ruby(erb,html.erb,htm.erb)
    ->JSX(jsx)
    ->C(c,h,i)
    ->C++(cc,cp,cpp,c++,cxx,hh,hpp,hxx,h++,ii,ino)
    ->C#(cs,asax,ashx)
    ->Java(java)
    ->Scala(scala,sbt)
    ->Dart(dart)
    ->PHP(php,php3,php4,php5,phtm,phtml,ctp)
    ->CoffeeScript(coffee,cf,cson,_coffee)
    ->Clojure(clj,cljs,cljx)
    ->Perl(pl,pm,t)
    ->Ruby(rb,ru,gemspec,rake)
    ->Python(py,pyw,wsgi,gyp,gypi)
    ->SASS(sass)
    ->Diff(diff,patch)
    ->Lua(lua)
    ->YAML(yaml,yml)
    ->SQL(sql)
    ->Haxe(hx)
    ->Bash(sh,command,bash)
    ->Haskell(hs)
    ->RDF Turtle(ttl)
    ->Markdown(md,markdown,mdown,mkdn)
    ->Markdown (GitHub)()
    ->LESS(less)
    ->Handlebars(hbs,handlebars)
*/

/* Define some variables used in multiple places */
/* 1. Background color for the code view */
@background: #FFFEFD;
/* 2. Foreground color for the code view (Regular strings or text) */
@foreground: #333333;

/* Code Styling */

.CodeMirror, .CodeMirror-scroll {
    background-color: #ffffff;
    color: @foreground;
}
/* NA */
.CodeMirror-focused .CodeMirror-activeline-background {
    background: #c3c3c3;
}
/* NA */
.show-line-padding .CodeMirror-focused .CodeMirror-activeline-background {
    box-shadow: inset 15px 0 0 0 #000;
}
/* NA */
.CodeMirror-focused .CodeMirror-activeline {
    .CodeMirror-gutter-elt {
        background: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.2);
        color: #fff;
    }
/* NA */
    .inline-widget .CodeMirror-gutter-elt {
        color: #626262;
    }
}

.cm-atom, .cm-string, .cm-string-2, .cm-hr {color: #1c1ca8;}
.cm-number, .cm-attribute, .cm-plus, .cm-qualifier {color: #ffffff;}
.cm-def, .cm-property {color: #0b8dc6;}
.cm-variable, .cm-variable-2, .cm-variable-3, .cm-operator, .cm-meta, .cm-bracket {color: @foreground;}
.cm-comment {color: #8C8C8C; font-style: italic; }
.cm-error, .cm-minus {color: #7b6546;} /* -------------------- */
.cm-header {color: #87908e;}
.cm-link {color: #1fc6d4; text-decoration: none;}
.cm-rangeinfo {color: #2c9abc;}
.cm-keyword, .cm-builtin, .cm-tag, .cm-quote {color: #8b1a83;}

/* HTML Specific Code Colouring */
.HTML {
  .cm-atom { color: #ffffff; }
  .cm-qualifier { color: #02B173; }
  .cm-property { color: #9b54b8; }
}

/* PHP Specific Code Colouring */
.PHP{
  .cm-meta { color: #e34a4a; }
  .cm-keyword, .cm-operator { color: #009ade; }
  .cm-variable, .cm-property { color: #ffffff; }
  .cm-variable-2, .cm-number { color: #34a553; }
}

/* JavaScript Specific Code Colouring */
.JavaScript {
  .cm-number { color: #02B173; }
  .cm-string { color: #ffffff; }
}

/* CSS, SCSS, LESS Specific Code Colouring */
.CSS, .SCSS, .LESS {
  .cm-atom { color: #ffffff; }
  .cm-def { color: #CE4F4F; }
  .cm-tag, .cm-number  { color: #0b8dc6; }
  .cm-attribute { color: #78A004; }
  .cm-variable-3, .cm-qualifier { color: #02B173; }
  .cm-property { color: #9b54b8; }
}

/* Extra CSS */

.CodeMirror-searching {
    background-color: #ffffff;
    color: #393939 !important;
    &.searching-current-match {
        background-color: #ffffff;
        color: #393939 !important;
    }
}

.CodeMirror-cursor {
    border-left: 1px solid #575757 !important;
}

.CodeMirror-gutters {
    background-color: #ffffff;
    border-right: none;
}
/* sequence numbers */
.CodeMirror-linenumber {
    color: #a7a7a7;
}

/* drag & Select text */
.CodeMirror .CodeMirror-selected {
    background: rgba(199, 199, 199, 0.8);
}

/* drag & Select text, change focus */
.CodeMirror-focused .CodeMirror-selected {
    background: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.7);
}

/* drag & Select text ,change focus */
.CodeMirror .CodeMirror-selected-codefolding {
    background: rgba(199, 199, 199, 0.8);
}

/* drag & Select text*/
.CodeMirror-focused .CodeMirror-selected-codefolding {
    border: solid 1px rgba(48, 72, 144, 0.6) !important;
    background: rgba(177, 177, 177, 0.5);
    color: #2e2e2e !important;
}

.CodeMirror-overwrite .CodeMirror-cursor {
    border-left: none !important;
    border-bottom: 1px solid #626262;
}

/*
    CodeMirror's use of descendant selectors for certain styling causes problems when editors are
    nested because, for items in the inner editor, the left-hand clause in the selector will now
    match either the actual containing CodeMirror instance *OR* the outer "host" CodeMirror instance.

    TODO (issue #324): We'll still have problems if editors can be nested more than one level deep,
    or if any other descendant-selector-driven CM styles can differ between inner & outer editors
    (potential problem areas include line wrap and coloring theme: basically, anything in codemirror.css
    that uses a descandant selector where the CSS class name to the left of the space is something
    other than a vanilla .CodeMirror)
*/
.CodeMirror {
    .CodeMirror {
        background: transparent;
    }

    .CodeMirror .CodeMirror-gutters {
        background: transparent;
        border-right: none;
    }

    .CodeMirror .CodeMirror-activeline-background {
        background: transparent;
    }

    .CodeMirror .CodeMirror-activeline .CodeMirror-gutter-elt {
        background: transparent;
        color: #767676;
    }

    .CodeMirror-focused .CodeMirror-activeline-background {
        background: #2f2f2f;
    }

    .CodeMirror-focused .CodeMirror-activeline {
        .CodeMirror-gutter-elt {
            background: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.2);
            color: #fff;
        }
    }
}
/* dropdown icon - normal */
.CodeMirror-foldgutter-open:after {
    color: #a7a7a7;
}
/* dropdown icon - when closed */
.CodeMirror-foldgutter-folded:after {
    color: #727272;
}
/* dropdown icon - hover */
.CodeMirror.over-gutter, .CodeMirror-activeline {
    .CodeMirror-foldgutter-open:after {
        color: #8e8e8e;
    }
}
/* three dotted line box */
.CodeMirror-foldmarker {
    border-color: #ffffff;
    color: #7a7a7a;
    background-color: #ffffff;
    box-shadow:  inset 0px 0px 1px 0px #7a7a7a;
}

/* Non-editor styling */

.image-view,
.not-editor {
    background-color: #ffffff;
}

.view-pane .image-view {
    color: @foreground;
}

.CodeMirror-matchingbracket, .CodeMirror-matchingtag {
    /* Ensure visibility against gray inline editor background */
    background-color: #ffffff; !important
    color: #000000; !important;
}

/* Custom code colors or overrides should start after this line */

Ben, I already did that

It does NOT work

.CodeMirror-matchingbracket, .CodeMirror-matchingtag {

    /* Ensure visibility against gray inline editor background */

    background-color: #ffffff;

    color: #000;

}

Jon, I do not understand. I do not want to change the "theme" and recode every css.

I just want to get rid of this one annoying Agent Orange feature.

I have spent almost 18 hours learning many of the new features (a complete waste of my time which has resulted in an angry client)

This is what I have done, I have tried both the white "theme" and the light gray theme and (Please read this) when I click the </td> tag or ANY OTHER tag, they ALL highlight with the same insipid orange color.

As per the attached image in my previous post.

I do not want to include any external CSS because google "Now" penalizes me for forcing them to do another "loop" to pick up the css before building the page.

I have gone through EVERY Hex code on the MAIN.LESS page and checked it against this color picker and anything orange, I have changed to white

Color Picker by WebpageFX

Yet the Orange BG problem persists.

BTW Ben, did you actually TRY and see if what you were sending me to actually specifically applied to the problem I and many others are having ?
Or was this just a post to get points?

Because NOTHING on that page or its linked pages seems to work  and I have also checked ALL of the CSS files in the adobe folder for this orange hex code.

Perhaps you should TRY and see if your suggestion works before you say something demeaning.

At the risk of being called a moron, have a look at Learn how you can customize the colors of your code elements in Dreamweaver.

Lucky you have this on your side No such thing as a stupid question - Wikipedia