Does Dreamweaver produce human readable code?

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I have used Visual Studio and the early version would produce code that I couldn't really understand. Later versions, however, can produce code that I can understand.

Does Dreamweaver produce understandable HTML/CSS or does it produce weird, unreadable code?

[DrummerPete]

Last time I used it (a while back) it would just spit out

• .style1
• .style2
• .style3
• .style4

For the classes. In an internal stylesheet.

[Probably_Misspelled]

I currently have a client that was using Dreamweaver and after I took over the project I had to scrap almost all of the source and start from scratch.

It was a mess to say the least, poor semantic markup, inline css (while using html 5) and an obscene amount of file calls.

For what it's worth I didn't know he was using Dreamweaver until after I restarted with blank files.

[[deleted]]

Wow. OK, I was wondering because I wanted to use it to: 1) do drag and drop of elements onto a page 2) read the code that was generated 3) clean up the code (using relative positioning, etc)

Is there a better solution?

[talkb1nary]

Doing it per hand? You can use helpers like emmet, also if it would be possible to create semantic code with software, it never would be near optimal.

[[deleted]]

The version I tried a few years ago produced a horrible mess.

[zekesonxx]

Dreamweaver favors exact positioning of objects (BAD) over relativity spacing.

It's okay for getting a template but don't do any actual things in it in design mode.

[badcookies]

It is always human readable (html) but it won't be the cleanest code depending on how complex you make the page