Text–>CSS Styles–>Design Time…

The built-in function is simple, does only one file at a time, but there’s a very inexpensive CMX extension that can do the job site-wide.

This solution uses auxiliary _notes files, which seems fragile to me, and requires a bit of maintenance. I am not certain if it can help with embedded style-sheets.

I prefer your solution because it is self-contained within the template — which is one of the fundamental reasons for using a template, yes?

I’m new to all this, and self-taught, but my software engineering experience suggests that there should be a standardized mechanism to make particular markup visible at specified “times”, e.g. design-time.

Your scheme would seem to depend on DW’s processing of .html files into some kind of internal model as you load each such file to edit. I’ve yet to understand what is done — details might not be available publicly– and I’d guess Adobe might change that processing at any time.

Thinking out loud,one might write an extension that uncovers link tags –or anything else– that are put inside plain HTML comments, based on user-defined start- and end-strings. That would give a bit more control to users, I think. If I knew JavaScript….

Thanks,

Henry