DW8 Find & Replace \n

I just found out something really cool in DreamWeaver 8's Find & Replace, here's the crack...

I had a compressed & optimised CSS file, with no line breaks. Thing is that I needed a version WITH line breaks so that it can be worked on a bit easier THEN optimised and compressed.

Trouble is that DreamWeaver doesn't appear to have the option I wanted... I wanted to replace every brace character } with a brace } and a new line/ carriage return/ line feed. I checked DreamWeaver's Help and it didn't enlighten me.

So I just went ahead and did what I thought might work, taking the CRLF knowledge from PHP into DreamWeaver, making sure, because this was a test, to only apply the Find & Replace to the current document ;)

Find: }

Replace: }\n

Replace All

It worked!

Obviously if your CSS is fully compressed you can give every single selector a line break with find & replace on opening braces { and replace with {\n and replace every semicolon ; with ;\n

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