Changing the default dreamweaver templates

I'm not sure if this is programming-related enough for stack overflow, but anyways...

I want to change the code that is created in dreamweaver when you create a new HTML file or PHP file.

For example, I want to replace the default doctype and HTML tag:

<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd">
<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml">

with this:

<!DOCTYPE html>
<html>

How can I do this?

Solution

On Mac OS X, you'll find Dreamweaver's Document Type Declaration configurations at:

/Applications/Adobe Dreamweaver/Configuration/DocumentTypes

To add a new template for HTML5 documents, open the file MMDocumentTypeDeclarations.xml and add a new element:

<documenttypedeclaration id="mm_html_5">
    <title>
        <MMString:loadString id="mmdocumenttypedeclarations/mm_html_5" />
    </title>

    <doctypedecl>
        <![CDATA[<!DOCTYPE HTML>]]>
    </doctypedecl>

    <rootelement>
        <![CDATA[<html></html>]]>
    </rootelement>

    <dtdcontext>html</dtdcontext>
    <dtdcontext>html5</dtdcontext>
    <dtdcontext>frameset_frame</dtdcontext>
    <dtdcontext>xslt</dtdcontext>
</documenttypedeclaration>

When creating new documents, Dreamweaver references MMDocumentTypeDeclarations.xml and matches the <dtdcontext> against the Page Type you selected in the New Document dialog box.

By modifying this XML file, you don't have to edit any of the templates in:

/Applications/Adobe Dreamweaver/Configuration/DocumentTypes/NewDocuments

If you're running Dreamweaver CS5+ (version 11), Adobe already includes updated DTDs for HTML5:

Dreamweaver New Document Dialog Box

Which creates the following blank document:

<!DOCTYPE HTML>
<html>
<head>
    <meta charset="UTF-8">
    <title>Untitled Document</title>
</head>

<body>
</body>

</html>

You can change which DOCTYPE is used by default when creating new documents by going into Dreamweaver's preferences:

Dreamweaver New Document Preferences