Escape characters

The following is a list of escape characters that Adobe Dreamweaver supports, along with the strings to specify them and descriptions of their usage.

Escape character	Escape string	Description
Backslash	`\\`	The backslash character (\) is the code coloring escape character, so it must be escaped to be specified in a code coloring rule.
White space	`\s`	This escape character matches any non-visible characters, except those listed that match the Newline escape character, such as space and tab characters. The optional white space and required white space wildcards match both the white space and newline characters.
Newline	`\n`	This escape character matches the newline (also known as linefeed) and carriage-return characters.

Escape character

Escape string

Description

Backslash

\\

The backslash character (\) is the code coloring escape character, so it must be escaped to be specified in a code coloring rule.

White space

\s

This escape character matches any non-visible characters, except those listed that match the Newline escape character, such as space and tab characters.

The optional white space and required white space wildcards match both the white space and newline characters.

Newline

\n

This escape character matches the newline (also known as linefeed) and carriage-return characters.