Solution: White on Mint Green Code Color.

Which version of DW and OS do you have?

Editing LESS files is no different than editing any other text file.  When done, save your LESS file and close it.  Then Apply your theme in Preferences.

Hi Web_Zest,

I ran into this problem after my recent update and was completely unwilling to accept that I had to edit in Pastel Green with white text. Of course, I've been writing CSS for about 20 years and have long been used to tweaking Dreamweaver in some way to provide functionality that Adobe themselves are very often circumspect to add themselves.

So, without further ado here is a fix that will add a very light blue background AND retain the normal color of text. Note: I have only tested this with HTML files. CSS, PHP, JS files may need their own fixes. I will try to update this post with those fixes if this ends up being the case. This is based on a copy of the light theme, but a similar hack could be used for a copy of the black theme as well. Use the custom code theme technique from above, but add this to the bottom of the main.less file and save.

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

.CodeMirror-matchingtag {

    color: inherit !important; /* Don't know if this is necessary, but whatevs */

    background-color: #ebfefd !important; /* Set your BG color here same as the above post */

}

.CodeMirror-focused .cm-atom, .CodeMirror-focused .cm-string, .CodeMirror-focused .cm-string-2, .CodeMirror-focused .cm-hr {color: #1c1ca8 !important;}

.CodeMirror-focused .cm-number, .CodeMirror-focused .cm-attribute, .CodeMirror-focused .cm-plus, .CodeMirror-focused .cm-qualifier {color: #b16423 !important;}

.CodeMirror-focused .cm-def, .CodeMirror-focused .cm-property {color: #0b8dc6 !important;}

.CodeMirror-focused .cm-variable, .CodeMirror-focused .cm-variable-2, .CodeMirror-focused .cm-variable-3, .CodeMirror-focused .cm-operator, .CodeMirror-focused .cm-meta, .CodeMirror-focused .cm-bracket {color: @foreground;}

.CodeMirror-focused .cm-comment {color: #8C8C8C !important; font-style: italic; }

.CodeMirror-focused .cm-error, .CodeMirror-focused .cm-minus {color: #7b6546 !important;}

.CodeMirror-focused .cm-header {color: #87908e !important;}

.CodeMirror-focused .cm-link {color: #1fc6d4 !important; text-decoration: none;}

.CodeMirror-focused .cm-rangeinfo {color: #2c9abc !important;}

.CodeMirror-focused .cm-keyword, .CodeMirror-focused .cm-builtin, .CodeMirror-focused .cm-tag, .CodeMirror-focused .cm-quote {color: #8b1a83 !important;}

The basic idea here is to copy all the HTML tag CSS definitions and then override them by providing a CSS selector with a higher specificity than whatever it is that Adobe does to force all this text to a single color. Which, in my humblest opinion, whomever decided this was a good idea should be fired, tarred and feathered, in addition to having their mother called to be informed of what a total failure they have become.

HOW TO CUTSOMIZE YOURSELF:

Here is the code block I copied which defines the general code styles:

.cm-atom, .cm-string, .cm-string-2, .cm-hr {color: #1c1ca8;}

.cm-number, .cm-attribute, .cm-plus, .cm-qualifier {color: #b16423;}

.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;}

Note I prepended each CSS definition with .CodeMirror-focused and also added the !important to each definition. In this way one could do pretty much anything they wanted with the highlighted code. Either keeping the original code coloring, or creating their own custom highlight color scheme. For me, just returning the functionality back to "sane" was fine.

Have a good day all!

OhAdobeYouSoCrazy

Glad it worked for you .

If you're referring to the subsequent discussion in your other thread (now locked), you didn't create a hornet's nest.  Some people have nothing better to do than complain for the sake of complaining.

Nancy