By default DW will "fix" missing tags and such often breaking your code.
If you go to Edit >> Preferences, click on the Code Rewrite section and uncheck the top two Rewrite boxes this will not happen and everything will work fine. If you still want it to fix your code in regular .html docs but not .php or whatever, leave those top two boxes checked and just below those boxes there is a Never Rewrite Code option and you can set it only to leave certain extensions alone (like .php .asp etc.) and it will only leave those file types alone. ;)

Agreed. Been using it for over 5 years now. :)

I'll third UltraEdit!

Deamweaver? A $400.00 text editor? To edit a php file? Ya got me on that one!

You could also give Programmers Notepad a try. It's free :)

http://www.flos-freeware.ch/notepad2.html :)

Notpad is OUT | Notepad2 is IN

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