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Ian Highland
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August 24, 2020
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Make CC2019 look like CC 2015

  • August 24, 2020
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I have been using Dreamweaver CC 2015 for many years now as I much prefer the Code View interface to newer versions. It's stopped working now so am using CC 2019. I wonder if anyone knows how I can make the code and it's colours look the same as it did in the defualt options for CC 2015? Obviously I can no longer open 2015 to ee what it looked like but was a lot less confusing. I work moslty on HTML code for emails so am not proficient in all that dreamweaver offers.

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    Paul-M
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    August 25, 2020

    Whats the default code theme in Dreamweaver CC 2015 - is it the one called 'Classic' ?

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    Ian HighlandAuthor
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    August 25, 2020

    I'm not sure Paul as I can no longer open CC 2015 but yes I suspect that's it. The Classic in 2019 doesn't resemble it at all apart from being on light background.

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    Paul-M
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    August 25, 2020

    I have Dreeamweaver 2020 installed and the classic theme does have different colour semi-colons in CSS code, which I think is what you're referring to? I couldn't tell you honestly how different the rest of the colouring is to the classic theme in CC 2015. Code colouring customisation via Dreamweaver preferences is in the pipeline and should be available in a future version. If you can't wait you'll need to create your own theme based on the classic theme  and then edit the main.less file.

     

     

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    Nancy OShea
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    Nancy OSheaCommunity Expert
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    August 24, 2020

    As Ben_M said, find a Brackets theme you can live with and use that as your starting point.  I got mine from GitHub.

    https://brackets-themes.github.io/

     

    Dreamweaver was completely rebuilt in 2017 with a new code engine based on Brackets.  For this reason, code colors will never be exactly the same as in pre-2017 versions. 

     

     

     

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    Ian HighlandAuthor
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    August 25, 2020

    Ok thanks. Any idea what brackets theme most closely resembles CC 2015 at all then? I've looked through but can't see anything, surely someone must have written one? The main thing I want to change are the colons and semicolons ':' ';' within the code as they are currently the same colour as the code for say 'font-style' 'font-weight' etc (No idea what these are called in the main.less file so don't know what to change. Any ideas?

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    Ben MCommunity Expert
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    August 24, 2020

    You can customize Dreamweaver to use any color scheme that you want ( https://helpx.adobe.com/dreamweaver/using/customize-code-coloring.html ).  Personally speaking, I wish DW had a better way to find themes so what I have done is download Brackets (  http://brackets.io ) and use it's Extension finder to browse for themes.  There is a web version, but it's not as easily searchable via the web ( https://registry.brackets.io ).  

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