SCSS – SASS – LESS Syntax Highlighting On Dreamweaver CS6 – Windows Only

SCSS – SASS – LESS Syntax Highlighting On Dreamweaver CS6 – Windows Only

1. Update to the latest version of Dreamweaver

2. Ensure that ‘Show hidden files’ is enabled in Control Panel > Folder options

3. Open your user folder eg C:\users\Dylan\ replacing with your name

4. Then open AppData/Roaming/Adobe/Dreamweaver CS6/en_US/Configuration/

5. Open the file Extensions.txt

6. Replace the first line with the following:

HTM,HTML,SHTM,SHTML,HTA,HTC,XHTML,STM,SSI,JS,JSON,AS,ASC,ASR,XML,XSL,XSD,DTD,XSLT,RSS,RDF,LBI,DWT,ASP, ASA,ASPX,ASCX,ASMX,CONFIG,CS,CSS,LESS,SCSS,CFM,CFML,CFC,TLD,TXT,PHP,PHP3,PHP4,PHP5,PHP-DIST,PHTML,JSP,WML,TPL, LASSO,JSF,VB,VBS,VTM,VTML,INC,SQL,JAVA,EDML,MASTER,INFO,INSTALL,THEME,CONFIG,MODULE,PROFILE,ENGINE, 
SVG:All Documents

7. Replace the following line:

CSS:Style Sheets

With

CSS,LESS,SCSS:Style Sheets

8. Save and exit the file

9. Go to the folder DocumentTypes

10. Open the file named MMDocumentTypes.xml

11. Replace the line beginning with:

<documenttype id="CSS"

with

<documenttype id="CSS" internaltype="Text" winfileextension="css,less,sass,scss" macfileextension="css"
file="Default.css" writebyteordermark="false" mimetype="text/css" >

12. Save and exit the file, and restart Dreamweaver

13. Syntax highlighting now works

 


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