Dreamweaver color scheme for Netbeans editor

Last Updated on Saturday, 2 April 2011 05:26pm Written by spunky Saturday, 2 April 2011 01:55pm

If you’ve stepped up your game and ditched Dreamweaver in favour of using a real PHP IDE like Netbeans then this Dreamweaver-style theme will help make the transition that much easier.

Being unable to find a Dreamweaver color scheme for Netbeans code editor anywhere, this one was built from scratch today using exact color codes from Dreamweaver.

The Netbeans theme also takes a slight influence from Visual Studio’s default colors.

Mmmmm now that’s easy on the eyes.

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12 Comments

  1. jose   |  Tuesday, 12 April 2011 at 2:58 am

    how i use it??

  2. zachary   |  Thursday, 14 April 2011 at 5:19 am

    Thanks a lot for this! first google result… css selectors must be in pink. i am willing to adapt but Some wires like that can be very difficult to overcome after staring at something for so many combined hours.

  3. spunky   |  Thursday, 14 April 2011 at 9:46 am

    @jose, download the ZIP file. In netbeans select Tools > Options > Fonts & Colours. Click on Import and select the ZIP file you downloaded.

    @zachary, no problem. it’s hard to use anything else but the Dreamweaver colour scheme! Separating the CSS selectors from .CSS and .php/.htm files does not seem possible. Glad you enjoyed it.

  4. jose   |  Thursday, 05 May 2011 at 3:08 am

    thanks.

  5. Martijn   |  Friday, 27 May 2011 at 11:25 pm

    Thanks for the efforts, but there’s something wrong with your theme. The cursor stops blinking once you haven’t placed it on an element. Try it for yourself.

  6. joncys   |  Thursday, 09 June 2011 at 7:34 am

    Hi, I’m having problems with caret. It flashes one time for me, then it disappears. This is theme specific, because everything works normally on the default themes (the caret stays flashing, when you place it all around in the document). Any chance the theme doesn’t work with NetBeans 7.0? Thanks!

  7. Murdock   |  Friday, 17 June 2011 at 9:51 am

    Thank you for sharing! It’s nice to have a familiar face on a new platform. It works a treat on 7.0.

    The caret issue is a quick fix for those that have it. Under Tools > Options > Highlighting set the Caret Color and Caret Color (Overwrite mode) to black. Problem solved.

  8. Chad   |  Wednesday, 06 July 2011 at 8:32 am

    doesn’t seem that it formats html nicely. It appears all blue. Though its been a while since I’ve used dreamweaver I thought the html was styled in a specific way any chance that can be updated to support that?

  9. Marcin   |  Sunday, 18 September 2011 at 8:40 pm

    Great thing! Thank you!

  10. Dave D   |  Monday, 14 November 2011 at 9:42 pm

    You saved me a bunch of time by sharing this theme. Thank you!

  11. Marc   |  Friday, 30 December 2011 at 4:09 am

    Did anyone ever find a solution to the cursor/caret being completely blank?

  12. Marc   |  Friday, 30 December 2011 at 4:12 am

    Got it. Just go to Tools > Options > Fonts & Colors -> Highlighting and change ‘caret color’ and ‘caret color (Ovewrite mode)’ mode from inherited to black or whatever color you prefer.

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