Linting / Syntax Error Checking

Maybe I'm explaining this wrong.

Live Linting is NOT working in DW CC 2018, the output panel only updates when I save the document (CTL+S) it does NOT update as I type.

Live linting works fine in DW CC 2015

In CC 2018 is this be design or some glitch/bug or a setting I don't know about possibly?

I have NOT edited/touched any of the default linting preference files

I exported the same site from CC 2015 and imported it into CC 2018 to test, so nothing to do with the site settings either

To check HTML code in .php files, use Live Code and run Live Document Validation.  See screenshot.

NOTE:  You will need a local testing server to work with Live Code in PHP files

Energize  wrote I tested Linting in DW CC 2018 it only works when I save the document. If I understand correctly it should work while editing the document by default (Note I have not made any changes to default limiting preferences. Also l note that if I open a document with php extension the language defaults to php in the linting status bar, if I change it to html it still won't report html errors.

LInting in any editor you can name is crap at best, especially when you have html, php, javascript etc in one document. Live linting has not worked in DW since CC2015, you now have to save the document

Whilst linting may help identify some issues it will not identify every issue. The only sure way of checking is running the page via the W3c validator. That is the only validator with any credibility - all the inbulit 'interpretation' validators, in every single editor I've ever used. are mostly rubbish.

We had editors in the past just pushing the open page to the W3c validator with effective results. I have no idea what have happened to current editors save to say they have taken a few setps backwards in a lot of areas.

The workflow I now use is setting my local server up to catch any php errors, the browser console to identify javascript errors and the wc3 to report any html errors after the page has been complied

That's how Linting has worked since 2017.

Nancy