Get Rid of "Doctype Must Be Declared First" Alert

[Cayce]

I'm working on a body of code that won't ever have a doctype, but this alert is in the way.  How do I disable the "Doctype Must Be Declared First" alert, and any others like it?  I can't find it in my preferences.

[Ben M]

If you want Dreamweaver to validate your code it needs to know the doctype in order to validate.  There's no way to override and tell DW that you are working in a particular type of HTML file without having that information. I would just ignore the error and work as you were.

[Nancy OShea]

And you won't find it in Preferences.  HTML documents must have doc type declaration.

My advice is to use another file type.  Depending on the code you're creating, use JavaScript, JSON, PHP or plain .txt file instead of HTML.

[Jon Fritz]

If you don't want DW to check your code for errors as you go, you can turn that off.

Go to Edit > Preferences > Linting > uncheck the box for Enable Linting > hit Apply

[Nancy OShea]

Keep in mind that DW can choke on bad syntax even when Linting is disabled.