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Back in August I called TS and had to insist give me an answer. He finally gave me the solution. My mistake I didn’t document the solution. Now I updated to V21 and V20 is gone and I need to redo the fix and can’t remember the solution. I’ve talked to 3 different TS people. The 1st I had to insist there was a solution because it was solved back in August. He sent me to C:\Users\mycomputer\AppData\Roaming\Adobe\Dreamweaver 2021\en_US\Configuration. Couldn’t find what I wanted. The 2nd gave me an article that solved what she though I asked. The next said he couldn’t help because Adobe didn’t give them an answer in their data base.
The problem.
If you go to File > New and select New Document </> HTML you get:
Untitled-1
1 <!doctype html>
2 <html>
3 <head>
4 <meta charset="utf-8">
5 <title>Untitled Document</title>
6 </head>
7
8 <body>
9 </body>
10 </html>
11
I want to edit this file. I believe it is located in C:Program Files > Adobe > Adobe Dreamweaver 2021.
No I’m not looking to save the above as index.htlm, I want to modify the original that Adobe has somewhere on the system.
Hope I’m clear.
The files you are looking for are at...
C > Program Files > Adobe > Adobe Dreamweaver 2021 > configuration > Document Types > NewDocuments
If you only work with .html files, you only need to modify the "Default.html" file. For myself, I edit Default.html and Default.php and that covers any file I might make when I go to File > New.
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The files you are looking for are at...
C > Program Files > Adobe > Adobe Dreamweaver 2021 > configuration > Document Types > NewDocuments
If you only work with .html files, you only need to modify the "Default.html" file. For myself, I edit Default.html and Default.php and that covers any file I might make when I go to File > New.
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Thanks! What I was looking for. Don't know how I missed it. 🙂
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Opened up the default.html and default.php and they were html4 not html5 so while close aren't what Dreamweaver 21 uses. 😞
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they are ... try a small test like putting some text in the body and you'll see
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Ok it worked.
Thanks again. I made a note and saved it so I won't forget. 🙂
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Yep, the default template when you open it has an old doctype in it, that's probably what threw you off...
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In other words, you're looking for the file that generates a default HTML starter document. I honestly don't know where to find that. I never mess with those files.
To keep things simple, I save re-usable code to my Custom Snippets folder which is located in:
C:\Users > [name] > AppData > Roaming > Adobe > Dreamweaver [ver] > [language] > Configuration > Snippets > Custom.
My snippets ported over just fine to ver 21.0. But I kept ver 20 just in case I need it later.
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You want to look here I believe: C:\Program Files\Adobe\Adobe Dreamweaver 2021\configuration\DocumentTypes\NewDocuments\
look for default.html, default.php etc depending on which new file type you want to edit.