Editing with the Find and Replace Tool in Java

Creator QR Code ISO/IEC18004 in Java Editing with the Find and Replace Tool

You can t undo these commands, so be sure to perform a backup of your files prior to replacing all, or just be really, really careful that you re replacing what you want to be replacing

Press F3 (Windows) or +G (Mac) to search for the same criteria again without launching the Find and Replace dialog box You can also click the Save Report icon (the disk) on the search results panel and save the results as an XML file, which you can drag into Microsoft Excel and view a nice chart This is handy for showing bosses and clients how many text items were replaced

When searching in code for specific tags, you may find including attributes is helpful as a way to narrow the search Dreamweaver lets you search not only for specific tags, but also for the attributes of those tags and the attribute values, as shown in Figure 2-6

For instance, to ensure all your images have alt attributes for W3 accessibility compliance, you may need to search for all the <img> tags without alt attributes You can set parameters to add the attribute with an empty value (alt= ) by leaving the To field blank To search for text in specific tags, follow Steps 1 through 3 from the previous section and continue with these steps:

1 From the Search drop-down list, select Specific Tag 2 Click the plus (+) button to add a tag modifier (optional):

With Attribute lets you specify the attribute type and attribute value of the tag to be a match Without Attribute lets you specify that a particular attribute is not in the search to be considered a match

Containing lets you specify either text or a tag that must be present in the specific tag to be a match Not Containing lets you specify that certain text or a tag must not be in the first tag to be a match Inside Tag lets you specify that a tag must be found inside the first tag to be a match Not Inside Tag lets you specify that a tag must not be found inside the first tag to be a match Note: When the search does not need any tag modifiers, click the minus ( ) button to remove any pre-existing tag modifiers

3 To further limit the search, repeat Step 2 4 If replacing content, choose an action from the Action menu and input

additional information as prompted: Replace Tag & Contents prompts you to enter Replace With information for the new tag and contents Replace Contents Only prompts you to enter Replace With information for the contents of the specified tag Remove Tag & Contents removes the selected tag and everything in between Strip Tag will completely remove specified tags but not their content Change Tag prompts you to select another tag type from a drop-down list Set Attribute lets you select a tag and specify its attribute, if any Remove Attribute prompts you to select an attribute to be removed from the specified tag Add Before Start Tag lets you enter data to add before the specified start tag Add After End Tag lets you enter data to add after the specified end tag Add After Start Tag lets you enter data to add after the specified start tag Add Before End Tag lets you enter data to add before the specified end tag

5 Search for your text by clicking the appropriate button:

Find All opens the Results panel and displays search results Find Next jumps from each found instance to the next, and if searching in multiple documents, jumps from one document to the next