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Setting preferences

Dreamweaver has preference settings that control the general appearance of the Dreamweaver user interface as well as options related to specific features such as layers, style sheets, displaying HTML and JavaScript code, external editors, and previewing in browsers. Information about specific preference options is provided throughout this help system in conjunction with the associated feature or topic.

For information about the various preference options, see the following topics:

General preferences
Code Colors preferences
Code Format preferences
Code Rewriting preferences
CSS Styles preferences
Launching an external editor for File Types/Editors preferences
Fonts/Encoding preferences
Setting Highlighting preferences
Invisible Elements preferences
Layers preferences
Setting Layout View preferences
Panels preferences
Preview in Browser preferences
Setting Quick Tag Editor preferences
Site preferences
Status Bar preferences