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themortalgod01
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January 10, 2017
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Disabling The Auto Bracket Closing In Dreamweaver 2017

  • January 10, 2017
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Hey, I've been using the new DW 2017 for a few weeks and the auto bracket closing is driving me up a wall. (As well as auto quote closing).  I haven't been able to find a setting to turn it off though? I have code hinting and auto completion disabled but brackets still auto close on me. Its frustrating me to a level that I'm considering ditching DW over this.

Any help would be swell.

thanks!

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    Correct answer Yalpi

    This does not work anymore.

    Anytime I type the following

    ( { ' or "

    the system automatically closes and adds on ) } '  and  "

    Which is simply awful. I can not understand why anyone would want that to happen, closing tags like </, ok, sure thats useful, but closing brackets and parenthesis makes the coding process very annoying and hard.

    Please fix this ASAP.


    To disable auto completion of quotes and brackets in Dreamweaver please follow below steps:

    1. Quit Dreamweaver
    2. Open following file in a text editor:
      • Win: %appdata%\Adobe\Dreamweaver CC 2018\en_US\Configuration\Brackets\brackets.json
      • Mac: ~/Library/Application Support/Adobe/Dreamweaver CC 2018/en_US/Configuration/Brackets/brackets.json
    3. Set below 2 flags in the file to false which are set to true by default.
      • "autoCloseQuotes": false,
      • "autoCloseBraces": false,
    4. Save and close the file
    5. Launch Dreamweaver.

    Auto completion of quotes and brackets will be now disabled.

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    C_J__Land
    New Participant
    April 20, 2017

    The best solution is go BACK to a PRIOR VERSION of Dreamweaver.  I have already wasted 2 hours on this POS trying to get things to work.  Been using this product for 15 years now.  If you want to have a BETA than put out a BETA....but not asking REAL USES how they are using this product is an insult.  I HATE THIS VERSION. 

    I feel better now.

      Nancy OShea
      Nancy OShea
      Community Expert
      April 20, 2017

      Did you install the latest update yet?  It came out yesterday (Apr 19th).

      Dreamweaver 2017.1 is now live

      Nancy

      Nancy O'Shea— Product User & Community Expert
      Preran
      Community Manager
      PreranCommunity Manager
      Community Manager
      January 10, 2017

      In the Code Hinting section, did you choose Never for Close Tags?

      Thanks,

      Preran

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      themortalgod01Author
      Participating Frequently
      January 10, 2017

      Yes, it doesn't seem to effect brackets or quotes

      Y
      Community Manager
      YalpiCommunity Manager
      Community Manager
      January 12, 2017

      There doesnt seem to be a Dreamweaver folder in my Library at that path?

      The only bracket.json my search could find was in the configuration folder inside the app folder. Changing it had no effect.


      Hi,

      brackets.json is located in user config folder within user home directory:

      ~/Library/Application Support/Adobe/Dreamweaver CC 2017/en_US/Configuration/Brackets/brackets.json

      or

      /Users/<username>/Library/Application Support/Adobe/Dreamweaver CC 2017/en_US/Configuration/Brackets/brackets.json

      You can add the flag "closeBrackets": false in the bottom and save the file.

      On next launch onwards, brackets are not auto closed on typing { or [ or ( and also quotes are not auto paired on typing ' or ".

      Regards

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