Dreamweaver 8 has got so many little features that make coding easier.
I’m in the process of converting a flat HTML website into something more palatable for the Joomla! CMS I’m using. The old website has something like 1500+ pages of HTML with some articles being MANY pages long… e.g. there’s one article that consists of 34 pages.
Now, Joomla! handles articles differently: One long page of HTML can be pasted into the WYSIWYG editor and then you designate where the page breaks are going to be using the code {mospagebreak}
- To type this out every time is a chore!
- To cut & paste is OK, but what if there’s a ton of other stuff on the clipboard?
- To cut & paste from, say, Notepad or Word is OK, but you have to keep maximising the program to grab the snippet
Dreamweaver 8 has this handy little function for creating, storing and re-using snippets of code in the snippets panel of the interface.
Here’s how to do snippets in Dreamweaver 8:
To insert a code snippet:
- Place the cursor at the insertion point where you want to insert the code snippet, or select code to wrap a snippet around.
- In the Snippets panel (Window > Snippets), double-click the snippet.
You can also right-click (Windows) or Control-click (Macintosh) the snippet, then select Insert from the pop-up menu.To create a code snippet:
- In the Snippets panel, click the New Snippet icon at the bottom of the panel.
- The Snippet dialog box appears.
Complete the dialog box and click OK.
So there you have it. Code Snippets. Quick & handy. Use them on big projects to save valuable time and avoid the tedium 🙂