Dreamweaver syntax color identify

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March 6, 2021
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I'm just new to Dreamweaver. It would help to have a list of what each syntax color identifies. For example, it looks all the html tags are blue. What does the green, orange, white, purple and gray identify? thank you.

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Ben M

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Coloring coding in the syntax depends on your theme that you are using for code. This can be customized in so many ways it is hard to say which you are looking at. If you want to share a screenshot of some of your code, we can try to help decipher some of your theme.

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sanhllmAuthor

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Here is a sceen shot. The code theme in Preferences is Dark. I'm using Dreamweaver 19.2.1. I wouldn't even know how to customize anything. I'm not only new to Dreamweaver but also just learning basic HTML. Thank you!

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sanhllmAuthor

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Syntax highlighting isn't a language per se. It's merely a way to beautify code to make it a bit more visually-friendly. It's less fatiguing to look at for hours at a time than monotonous dark text on light background or vice versa.

I have a Brackets theme from GitHub called Ruby Blue:

HTML tags are green.
Attributes are blue.
Values are orange.
Content is white.

Depending on the theme you use, JavaScript, CSS and PHP code may be highlighted differently.

Hope that helps.

Yes thank you, that helps a lot. I think that what I'm seeing is the default syntax colors. The only difference that I see from your example is my HTML tags are blue and Attributes are green. As a beginner, it helps to at least be able to see at a glance what is the HTML tag and what is the content. thank you.

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