Is it possible to turn off highlighted text

[roberts33286217]

When I click within a tag, the text up to the closing tag becomes highlighted:

I do not find this helpful at all, it's very distracting and I loose all of my code highlighting, is there anyway to disable the feature?

[BenPleysier · Accepted solution]

Use the Token Inspector and change the value in the Less file as per Learn how you can customize the colors of your code elements in Dreamweaver.

Edit:

Also have a look at Re: Enable code coloring in Dreamweaver CC 2017

[osgood_]

Meanwhile in other paid-for vendor applications you just go into a user interface, select the coding, change the color to suit and you're done. Pretty poorly thought through.

[roberts33286217]

So I have added the following to the bottom of my less file. I can now change the background colour but changing colour has no affect the text is always white.

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

.CodeMirror-matchingtag {

  color: #F93033;

  background: green;

}

This is a truly terrible feature of Dreamweaver, those of you who agree should vote here:

Highlighting Tag Removes Code Coloring in DW 2017 - Why? – Adobe Dreamweaver CC: Feature Ideas

[roberts33286217]

Using important enables the change of the text colour, I have amended the new solarized light theme as follows. It's not perfect but a lot less intrusive:

.CodeMirror-matchingbracket, .CodeMirror-matchingtag {

    background-color: #FAF8F5;

    color: #009688!important;

}

[osgood_]

roberts33286217 wrote:

This is a truly terrible feature of Dreamweaver, those of you who agree should vote here:

Highlighting Tag Removes Code Coloring in DW 2017 - Why? – Adobe Dreamweaver CC: Feature Ideas

We know.

[Nancy OShea]

Adobe are pushing out 2 new code color Themes for CC 2017.0.1 -- Raven & Solarized which should address this issue.

In the meantime, you can customize your code colors by editing the LESS file. See link below for details.

Solution: White on Mint Green Code Color.

Nancy

[osgood_]

Nancy OShea wrote:

Adobe are pushing out 2 new code color Themes for CC 2017.0.1 -- Raven & Solarized which should address this issue.

Wooooah 2! Meanwhile back in the unpaid world Brackets has about 152 themes. Not good enough me thinks. Start working on re-instating an optional user inteface where users can easily update their own colors, not some half assed solution - open up a json file and dig around in that. Its not going to happen but hey I can do a shout out for all those that want it to happen and for a top of the range paid-for product it should happen.

One may think I'm being negative about DW but come on guys, you charge money for this program so give the users the options that other paid for products have. Personally in hindsight I don't believe the Brackets editor has bought that much to the table in DW. Take away the 3rd party plugins  and youre left with a quick css editor which is neither here or there and a couple of poor color schemes.....humm.

[Nancy OShea]

If you can edit a LESS file, you can easily create your own custom code colors in any combination of ways.  No limits.  Sadly, most people can't be bothered.  

osgood_ wrote:

Brackets has about 152 themes.

Indeed it does.  And if you want, you can get them from GitHub and use them in Dreamweaver.  Your choice.

Brackets Themes

[osgood_]

Nancy OShea wrote:

Indeed it does. And if you want, you can get them from GitHub and use them in Dreamweaver. Your choice.

Brackets Themes

Of course you can but think of the vast majority of DW users as not that code savy or tech savy. Its not right to ask them to resort to such measures just to color the code in the way they require.

If we think of it your way you could just tell DW users to go out to the Bootstrap website and grab the components from there - take it or leave it attitude.

[Jon Fritz]

They don't have to be tech, or code savvy, not in the least.

People are making this waaaaaay harder than it needs to be, especially Adobe's "how to change the theme colors" knowledge base article. It's just silly information overload for information overload's sake.

There are 5 steps to getting a good brackets theme into DW...

1. Copy the code from the brackets theme_name.css file at the link Nancy gave (or one of the many many others on GitHub)
2. Make a duplicate of a default theme in DW under Edit > Preferences > Interface

3. Click the new duplicate theme and hit edit
4. Paste the brackets theme code over the DW duplicate theme code

5. Save and apply the theme

Done and done.

Obviously, having the old code color preferences back, where it was easy to change them from the GUI of the program, would be ideal, but getting a decent theme isn't rocket surgery.

[osgood_]

Jon Fritz II wrote:

but getting a decent theme isn't rocket surgery.

Depends what you call a decent color theme. I must have gone though dozens  and there was something I didnt like about it and the only way to change it was to open the themes css file and rake around in that to find the correct selector. Now if I could have done that via a user UI.............

If anyone is looking for a half decent dark theme with subtle color then Spacegray Dark I think it is, is pretty good.

[Nancy OShea]

As you well know, I did not design the software.  But unlike you, I'm actually a product user.  So I am able to offer solutions based on genuine experience with the current product.  You cannot make the same claim because by your own words you have never even tried it.  And yet you are one of DW's harshest & most ardent critics.    What does that say about you?

Nancy

[osgood_]

Nancy OShea wrote:

As you well know, I did not design the software. But unlike you, I'm actually a product user. So I am able to offer solutions based on genuine experience with the current product. You cannot make the same claim because by your own words you have never even tried it. And yet you are one of DW's harshest & most ardent critics. What does that say about you?

Nancy

It doesn't take a genious to build up a picture even without using the product. I have enough information from screen shots, the many posts I read daily. It feels as if I am using it at times.

Plus Brackets works in a very similar way so its not as if I'm totally unfamilar with the issues of the colors in the editor.

What is says about me is I'm not biased as a user of the product and I can see where things need to be improved just by listening and observing in this forum. Its a pity Adobe did not take a little bit more notice of logic and honesty, they could improve the product 10 fold.

[Nancy OShea]

Then why don't you download the software and make recommendations to the product engineers based on facts and not myths & assumptions?

DW is not Brackets.

Nancy

[pziecina]

Nancy OShea wrote:

Then why don't you download the software and make recommendations to the product engineers based on facts and not myths & assumptions?

DW is not Brackets.

Nancy

I don't want to point out the obvious, but speaking as someone who has tried this approach ...

That said, I would still like to hear a senior Dw product managers take on the complaints about Dw 2017, (and saying that in various forums, has already upset a lot of people).

[Nancy OShea]

Paula, I already know where you stand.  And your opinions although not always shared come with deep respect and appreciation for the hard work you've done in CAB and Pre-release over the years.  Osgood on the other hand is just bashing DW based on what... a few screenshots, forum noise & personal biases.

Nancy

[pziecina]

I'm not arguing about that Nancy, just that it appears impossible to get anyone senior to answer why, and believe me I have had a lot of, 'should we say feedback' about that request.

Just as a correction to Osgood's post - The MVP, (and CAB member) did say he used CS5 to maintain legacy sites.

[osgood_]

pziecina wrote:

Just as a correction to Osgood's post - The MVP, (and CAB member) did say he used CS5 to maintain legacy sites.

Thats not what was said here in post number 82, the last one:

Enable code coloring in Dreamweaver CC 2017

[pziecina]

We have now gone completely of topic, and in line with my guidelines -

https://forums.adobe.com/thread/2269625

(That's the discussions and rants post)

If we wish to continue we should start a new discussion, and not send the OP of this unwanted info, (so far it is 15 out of 21 posts)

[osgood_]

pziecina wrote:

We have now gone completely of topic, and in line with my guidelines -

https://forums.adobe.com/thread/2269625

(That's the discussions and rants post)

If we wish to continue we should start a new discussion, and not send the OP of this unwanted info, (so far it is 15 out of 21 posts)

OP has the answer, marked it correct and long gone.

[pziecina]

osgood_ wrote:

OP has the answer, marked it correct and long gone.

If users have a discussion marked as 'Following', and emails to be sent to them, then they still get everything that is posted.

Plus, it is not that much of an effort to start a new discussion, I would join in.

[osgood_]

Nancy OShea wrote:

Osgood on the other hand is just bashing DW based on what... a few screenshots, forum noise & personal biases.

So I'm bashing a product for taking away a useful code coloring UI in previous versions and replacing it with a somewhat inferior one, that's not progress in my opinion. I don't much like any of the default or color schemes which are available, each has some areas of the color I would like to change to my own taste. Why does Adobe expect someone to rake through a lot of css to try and detect what css selector colors what tag I ask you?

Ok a FREE product you get what you pay for and expect to do that but a premium rate product at over £200 a year? I'm currently using another product which costs me £69 a year and then the price drops for the second year and then drops again for the third year and guess what it has a UI which allows me to change the color scheme of all languages, and some. Is Adobe pushing up prices based on users ability to code and holding them to ransom by just providing them with inferior solutions, unethical if so - enough said I think.

[osgood_]

pziecina wrote:

That said, I would still like to hear a senior Dw product managers take on the complaints about Dw 2017, (and saying that in various forums, has already upset a lot of people).

I don't much care who I upset, truth needs to be outed. Very often those outside of the 'inner circle' can make better judgement and assessment than those inside the circle, who are in denial.

Most seniors in all company hide behind their Mothers skirts, leaving the lackies to do the dirty work. That's why most people have nothing but contempt for them because of the lack of communication and seemingly dishonesty.

[osgood_]

Nancy OShea wrote:

Then why don't you download the software and make recommendations to the product engineers based on facts and not myths & assumptions?

As I explained in my previous post no myths or assumptions. I read it in Black and White here and see it in here everyday.

You're right Brackets is FREE, offers more plugins and extendability for coders - Dreamweaver is targeted at those that cannot code and therefore can set a price which is proabably too much in return for what it actually has to offer.

Just for laughs an Adobe MVP was on here the other day saying they loved CC 2017 but kept CS5.5 for its server bindings, that says it all about DW users.