Nancy, I attached a screenshot that illustrates the issue. Regarding, your advice to edit the LESS file, there are several issues: -First, even the notion that users now have to learn how to edit some cryptic text files is absolutely disturbing. We already had perfect GUI for code coloring in DW 2015. Thanks to implementation of Brackets in DW 2017, users lost some essential functionality and lost the ability to edit code coloring in human oriented way - while gaining absolutely nothing. -There's indeed a method, suggested by another user, how to change tag highlighting color for some acceptable results - but only for the light color schemes. There's no known way to change it for the dark color scheme like in my screenshot - and which I (and many other users) were using for years. If you know of such method, please let us know - it will be greatly appreciated. -There's still no way to disable this tag highlighting - which, even when it preserves code coloring, is an annoying and unnecessary feature for many users. -And as a cherry on top: editing LESS files doesn't even work in DW 2018 - I filed a bug for this. I have to use DW 2017 to change code appearance to at least something acceptable. Like I mentioned, the loss of time and productivity thanks to downgrading Dreamweaver's code coloring has been significant. For self-employed people like me it translates directly in loss of money. And all this is funded by our subscription payments. I'd like to emphasize again that I'm referring strictly to Dreamweaver development team, not Adobe in general. Dreamweaver team let their users down. This frustration accumulated during more than a year of us, users, asking the team to restore basic essential functionality we had in earlier versions. ... View more

thanks Nancy, but this is only partially correct, unfortunately. there's no way to disable the disastrous tag highlighting. and we had this option in Preferences in DW 2015. isn't it astonishing that: -in the year 2017 we have to edit a text file instead of using the GUI - like we could in previous versions -important features are being REMOVED from DW, resulting in significant loss of time and productivity (which my experience confirms, as well as of other users on this and other forums). I'm referring to tag highlighting and the ability to easily edit the code coloring schemes via GUI - like we could in DW 2015 all of this is supported by our subscription payments. while other Adobe teams, such as InDesign, Illustrator and Photoshop, are working hard to make their products better with each new release, the situation with Dreamweaver appears to be exactly the opposite, sadly. ... View more

With some delay: thanks Preran! I'm the original poster - and yes this "feature" is sure causing me distress and sorrow. Like another poster mentioned, it's extremely distracting when editing the code. I'm sure there are some uses for this feature, but it's beyond comprehension why Adobe would suddenly introduce it without an option to disable it. Just looking - fruitlessly - for such essential option caused me some serious waste of time. For example, Text Wrangler (a free text editor) has a similar feature - naturally with an option to disable it in the Preferences (see screenshot). This issue alone will cause me to switch back to DW 2015. In any case, thanks again for your attention to this post. I'll submit the feature request as you suggested. Leo ... View more