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August 27, 2008
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Matching tags highlighting

  • August 27, 2008
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I've been waiting for years for Dreamweaver to have this option, does anyone knows if there's an option or an extension to activate this very helpful option? When you click on a <div> it will highlights it as well as its closing </div>, same thing for all tags.
I'm using PSPad (freeware) just because of this functionality that is so helpful. I can't believe Adobe never thought of it, even in CS4 I couldn't find it.

Please let me know if you are aware of such a function.

Thanks a lot.
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    tcnguyenvu
    tcnguyenvu
    Participant
    March 26, 2015

    In Dreamweaver CC 2014, go to Edit > Preferences > Code Coloring - Check the Enable tag highlighting box. Boom!

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      nuclimedia
      Participant
      April 28, 2013

      Same there!

      Its a shame. We could make a chance.org petiton. Maybe it will help? Adobe please can put the tags highlighter? Your competitors put it.

      Nancy OShea
      Community Expert
      Nancy OSheaCommunity Expert
      Community Expert
      April 28, 2013

      Gosh, such an old discussion from 2008 no less!

      In Code view, Select Parent Tag. See Screenshot.

      Nancy O.

      Nancy O'Shea— Product User & Community Expert
      John Waller
      Community Expert
      John WallerCommunity Expert
      Community Expert
      April 28, 2013

      Select Parent Tag has been discussed further up in the thread but what's being requested is automatic highlighting of the closing tag when you click on any opening tag.

      Homesite and Notepad++ have it. Would be a useful addition to Dreamweaver.

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      sergey_s1
      Participant
      March 25, 2013

      I am very surprised that this is not in new CS6...

      Matching tags/brackets highlighting on click very necessary thing in manual hard code.

      Stay on pspad and do not buy dream, sorry adobe. Not make functions that are in the other editors for past year's - not good.

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      Anonymous
      November 22, 2012

      I have to necro bump this...

      Where is dynamic tag highlighting in CS6??  It's been four years...

      sethwb
      sethwb
      Inspiring
      February 17, 2011

      Thank you fizz for the thoughtful response!  I've been using CTRL + [ since I read your post and it was the only thing keeping me from using dreamweaver at the time.

      Honestly I still find this a disadvantage and would prefer to see the closing and opening tags highlighted automatically when you click on them or when your insertion mark is on the tag.  It saves a lot of time in the long run and I also can't believe adobe did not think of it earlier. Let's go Adobe!

      Also I'd like to add that in some documents, such as XSL's in CS4 - the option to click the tag name at the bottom of the window is not available.  The only consistent solution I have found so far is the CTRL + [ method.

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      fizz351
      Participant
      February 18, 2011

      I've moved onto Notepad++ now as my primary HTML editor. Funnily

      enough, even that didn't have the jump-to matching tag feature without

      installing a plugin. It has highlightling as Dreaweaver does, but not

      jumping to the matching tag. Luckily, the plugin was easily

      available, can install from within Notepad++ and now to jump to the

      matching tag I just press CTRL-T, which is what you want!

      Just to clarify all this, the OP only wanted highlighting of matching

      tag, which Dreamweaver does, so case closed on that. But my point was

      that jumping to the matching tag in even better, done in one step with

      a shortcut key is very useful. Often, for example, you want your

      cursor at the point where the current div ends and the next one

      starts. Hence finding and jumping to the matching tag in one step is

      so useful as you edit. It's amazing that most HTML editors don't do

      this. Homesite did it. Notepad++ does it after you install the plugin

      called "HTML Tag".

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      Newsgroup_User
      Inspiring
      August 28, 2008
      On Wed, 27 Aug 2008 23:54:43 +0000 (UTC), "MReaction"
      <webforumsuser@macromedia.com> wrote:

      >I've been waiting for years for Dreamweaver to have this option, does anyone
      >knows if there's an option or an extension to activate this very helpful
      >option? When you click on a <div> it will highlights it as well as its closing
      ></div>, same thing for all tags.
      > I'm using PSPad (freeware) just because of this functionality that is so
      >helpful. I can't believe Adobe never thought of it, even in CS4 I couldn't find
      >it.
      >
      > Please let me know if you are aware of such a function.
      >
      > Thanks a lot.

      In the bar just below the code window, click on an opening tag and its
      matching closing tag and everything in between will be selected.

      Win
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      MReactionAuthor
      Participant
      August 28, 2008
      Thanks, I didn't know that, it's better than nothing but is there an option that does this automatically, no need to click anywhere and that highlights only the tag not the entire page and it turns red when there's no closing matching tag?
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