DREAMWEAVER CS3
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Entire Current Local Site
Expands the search to all the HTML documents, library files, and text documents in the
current site.
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Use the Search pop-up menu to specify the kind of search you want to perform:
Source Code
Searches for specific text strings in the HTML source code. You can search for specific tags using this
option, but the Specific Tag search provides a more flexible approach to searching for tags.
Text
Searches for specific text strings in the text of the document. A text search ignores any HTML that interrupts the
string. For example, a search for
the black dog
would match both
the black dog
and
the <i>black</i> dog
.
Text (Advanced)
Searches for specific text strings that are either within or not within a tag or tags. For example, in a
document that contains the following HTML, searching for
tries
and specifying Not Inside Tag and the
i
tag would
find only the second instance of the word
tries
:
John <i>tries</i> to get his work done on time, but
he doesn’t always succeed. He tries very hard.
.
Specific Tag
Searches for specific tags, attributes, and attribute values, such as all
td
tags with
valign
set to
top
.
Note:
Pressing Enter or Shift+Enter (Windows), or Return, Shift+Return, or Return
(Macintosh), adds line breaks within the text search fields, allowing you to search for a Return character. When
performing such a search, deselect the Ignore Whitespace Differences option if you’re not using regular expressions. This
search finds a Return character in particular, not simply the occurrence of a line break; for instance, it doesn’t find a
<br>
tag or a
<p>
tag. Return characters appear as spaces in the Design view, not as line breaks.
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Use the following options to expand or limit the search:
Match Case
Limits the search to text that exactly matches the case of the text you want to find. For example, if you
search for
the brown derby
, you will not find
The Brown Derby
.
Ignore Whitespace
Treats all whitespace as a single space for the purposes of matching. For example, with this
option selected,
this text
would match
this text
and
this
text
but not
thistext
. This option is not
available when the Use Regular Expressions option is selected; you must explicitly write your regular expression to
ignore whitespace. Note that
<p>
and
<br>
tags do not count as whitespace.
Match Whole Word
Limits the search to text that matches one or more complete words.
Note:
Using this option is equivalent to doing a regular-expression search for a search string that starts and ends with
\b, the word-boundary regular expression.
Use Regular Expressions
Causes certain characters and short strings (such as ?, *, \w, and \b) in your search string
to be interpreted as regular expression operators. For example, a search for
the b\w*\b dog
will match both
the
black dog
and
the barking dog
.
Note:
If you are working in Code view and make changes to your document, and try to find and replace anything other
than source code, a dialog box appears letting you know that Dreamweaver is synchronizing the two views before doing
the search.
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To search without replacing, click Find Next or Find All:
Find Next
Jumps to and selects the next occurrence of the search text or tags in the current document. If there are
no more instances of the tag in the current document, Dreamweaver proceeds to the next document, if you are
searching in more than one document.
Find All
Opens the Search panel in the Results panel group. If you are searching a single document, Find All displays
all occurrences of the search text or tags, with some surrounding context. If you are searching a directory or site, Find
All displays a list of documents that contain the tag.
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To replace found text or tags, click Replace or Replace All.
September 4, 2007
