This has saved my hours upon hours in the past. Not only can you find and replace within the current page but the entire site. The fun does not stop there, you can also search just within the text of a page, source code or even within specific tags.
Say for example a company changes its name to include the LTD or PLC, without DW you would be sifting through potentially hundreds / thousands of pages. With DW’s find and replace you can do this in a matter of seconds.
A recent one for me personally was updating my JQuery version on a old static site:
Two seconds later 29 pages were updated and ready to be uploaded along with the latest JQuery release.
Now before you go running to Find and Replace, please be careful and double check everything because once it is done, it can`t be undone. Finally, before you go using this for updating file names that have changed, read this next good point about Dreamweaver..
Say for example a company changes its name to include the LTD or PLC, without DW you would be sifting through potentially hundreds / thousands of pages. With DW’s find and replace you can do this in a matter of seconds.
A recent one for me personally was updating my JQuery version on a old static site:
- I hit Ctrl+F to bring up the Find and Replace dialogue box
- in “find” I put “jquery.1.XXXXXXX” and in replace with “jquery.XXXXX”
- Selected “Find in: Entire Current Local Site”
- “Search: Source Code” and clicked [Replace All]
Two seconds later 29 pages were updated and ready to be uploaded along with the latest JQuery release.
Now before you go running to Find and Replace, please be careful and double check everything because once it is done, it can`t be undone. Finally, before you go using this for updating file names that have changed, read this next good point about Dreamweaver..