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Code collapse for selection in code view is back with the latest release DW CC 2015.1 Nov Release.

For more details read the post below

Dreamweaver CC 2015 update (2015.1) is now live!

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Participating Frequently
March 2, 2016

Selected code collapsing is back - yeahhh - I just started Dreamweaver 2015.1 to use it from now on.....

Thanks Adobe for listening!

Regards

Participant
January 7, 2016

Thanks, I'll start using CC 2015 again

CelsoPecuraro
Participating Frequently
January 7, 2016

Thanks Adobe, to hear us. You are again in the top of mind.

Thanks Preran to conduct this issue to Adobe.

Best regards for all.

chrixtopher
Participating Frequently
December 2, 2015

finally! welcome back selection collapse!

Participating Frequently
November 11, 2015

This has been driving me nuts ever since the feature was removed.  It was so helpful.  Now I have to scroll up and down constantly.  I can't believe more people are not complaining.

Participating Frequently
December 2, 2015

YAY!  For those that don't know yet, the latest release of Dreamweaver now has the collapsing code feature again!!!  Made my day!  The color coding of the code is also a welcome improvement.  Makes it really easy to identify different parts of the code.

lnayalCorrect answer
Participating Frequently
December 2, 2015

Code collapse for selection in code view is back with the latest release DW CC 2015.1 Nov Release.

For more details read the post below

Dreamweaver CC 2015 update (2015.1) is now live!

paulg50633122
Participant
November 10, 2015

Finally, as a user, I can see the value of Adobe's monthly charge for using Dreamweaver -- I get to cancel my subscription when they make terrible product development decisions and I'm not out a small fortune. I've been using Dreamweaver since the Macromedia days and this isn't the first time they just lopped off useful features in the name of progress. But this is the first time I've seen the decisions defended with a questionable user survey. I think these poor decisions help explain this terrible Google Treads graph regarding Dreamweaver (below - Google Trends). So hey, DW team, please bring back variable collapsible code.

Gary Sprung
Known Participant
October 24, 2015

With my vote just now, vote count is up to 647. This is part of the current movement in design to hide things or remove features in the name of "simplicity". The primary culprit is Johnny Ive at Apple. He is behind the fact that in Apple Mail, you cannot even see the buttons for reply, forward, and attachment unless you hover over them. "Simplicity" is not so simple when it makes things hard to use. The code collapse/expand was self-evident. Now it's "unobtrusive" but confusing. Just bringing back the ability to collapse a custom selection won't cure this problem.

Nancy OShea
Community Expert
Community Expert
October 24, 2015

As I understand it, this will be addressed in an upcoming release.

With more improvements coming in 2016.

Next Generation of Dreamweaver : Adobe Dreamweaver Team Blog

Nancy O.

Nancy O'Shea— Product User & Community Expert
Herbert2001
Inspiring
September 7, 2015

A combo of PineGrow and Sublime Text gets you a brilliant design view, round-trip editing, lightning-fast editing, and code folding based on tags and selections (just like DW 2014 and before). And SublimeText has a great plugin ecosystem as well.

Code editing | Pinegrow Web Editor

Participating Frequently
September 7, 2015

I just downgraded from CC 2015 to CC 2014. For the collapsing code reason as well as the constant crashing I get with 2015 (Dreamweaver CC Crashes Constantly). Crashes on close for me 8 times out of 10 and freezes on open 5 times out of 10. Not having that problem with CC 2014.

And it annoys me that the Tech Dept Reps come across like these are limited problems - or individual ones with piece by piece attempts at fixes when it is a software flaw. Whoever Adobe hires to beta-tests these programs needs to be fired. Unless...we are the beta testers.

CelsoPecuraro
Participating Frequently
September 7, 2015

I'm using my laptop to work, in there I have DreamWeaver CC 2014.

In my first PC I can´t use the new folding tool. I´m in a revision work of scripts what have more than 3.000 lines each,  and the old collapse tool speeds up my work. With old tool I can collapse parts and parts of code to make revision in functions, classes what is impossible in new tool.

I'm thinking in downgrade to DW 2014 in my main PC but is very boring think this, because new version have many bootstrap functions, all the best. But for me (and I think for all people who is complaining) the old collapse tool is more necessary to acellerate the jobs.

Well, I´m posting to Mr. Rick Lee, a senior product marketing manager for Creative Cloud web products. http://blogs.adobe.com/dreamweaver/2015/07/update-available-dreamweaver-cc-2015-16-0-1.html#comment-10805

Sorry my ugly english, thanks.

CelsoPecuraro
Participating Frequently
September 7, 2015

Why i´m leaving dreamweaver?

Dreamweaver CC 2015 Edition For Email Development • Code and Send

Collapse Full Tag was removed in DW 2015

Yes, you read it correctly. Adobe removed the Collapse Full Tag function — the second most important and unique feature in Dreamweaver (first one being the Design View). The replacement is Code Folding — by magnitude an inferior way to collapse the code.

Fig.6. The Code Folding relies on you clicking the triangles and the (false) premise that each opening tag will be on a separate row on the screen.

Triangle-based code folding in inferior because:

  • It relies on using a mouse to click the triangle. It is an inefficient way to work with the code. It should be triggered by a strategically-placed keyboard key press.
  • It assumes that the code is clean, and there is only one opening tag on each line. When there are multiple opening tags on the same line, Dreamweaver assigns the triangle only to the first opening tag. Then it is not possible to collapse other tags on the same line. In contrast, Collapse Full Tag can be easily used anywhere, even on the minified code.
  • It assumes that you will always want to collapse tags starting from the opening tag. It is not possible to collapse the tag clicking on its closing tag. From practice, there is 5050 probability that I will collapse the tag starting with the closing tag. Actually, one of the uses of Collapse Full Tag was to find the opening tag.
Participating Frequently
September 8, 2015

Thanks CelsoPecuraro! Well stated. There is another important feature to add to your list, and that is the ability to collapse ANY selection of code, not just a particular tag. Ctrl+Shift+C allows you to collapse whatever selected you've made. And of course, Ctrl+Shift+J collapses the current tag you're in, no matter where in the tag you are, beginning, middle or end. It's sooo valuable. For that reason I've reverted back to CC 2014.

Reverting back to CC 2014 brings me back to another super annoying issue. I work in ColdFusion, an Adobe language, yet when I trying to save my .CFM files Dreameaver tries to be helpful and changes the file to .CFM.HTM. It will NOT let me save new or existing docs as .CFM. It's just CRAZY to me. I'm the last hold out on my team still using Dreamweaver (Sublime, Eclipse and Komodo being the other faves)  and I'm getting tired of fighting with Dreamweaver. I may be on my way out. Is Adobe trying to push us out?