Dreamweaver Killer Tips Page 4 - Finding & Replacing Specific Tags

Finding and Replacing Specific Tags

• Dreamweaver’s Find and Replace allows you to
  Search for Specific Tags
  – Find and replace any tag
  – Find and replace a tag with or without specified
  attributes (optional)
  – Find and replace tags based on if it is inside another
  tag or if it contains another tag or text
• Find any tag, yes any tag
• ColdFusion is tagbased!

Always make a backup of affected files before any Find
and Replace operation just in case

1. Perform the search (Choose Find All)

Use Find and Replace for more than simple
replacing
– Strip tags
– Remove tag contents only
– Change to a different tag
– Remove attributes
– Add or change attributes
– Add code before or after the tag

• Bring back the Find and Replace dialog by
  clicking the green arrow on the left of the
  Results panel
• In the list of search results in the Results panel
  – Ctrl+click (Cmd+click) individual noncontiguous results
  – Shift+click once and then a second time to select all
  results between and including the ones you selected
  using Shift+click
• Choose Replace (I said Replace, not Replace All) in the
  Find and Replace dialog
• The files that are modified get marked by a green dot to
  the left of the filenames in the Results panel