Color Coding Help

In Dreamweaver MX 7.0.1 when working in code view on PHP pages, large blocks of
code turn bright red. I've noticed that the code that turns this color is the
same that is identified as "invalid HTML" when the option to "Highlight Invalid
HTML" is turned on, although when I'm working I have this option turned off.
Besides just bright red, sometimes the color changes in parts to a dark blue or
light grey or sometimes a line is one color on the top half and one on the
bottom if you scroll so only half is showing in the edit box and then scroll to
show it all again. I'm not sure what caused the problem to start, as it only
recently began happening, but it's driving me nuts. Any help would be greatly
appreciated.

Please post a snippet of code that is causing this problem so we can
take a look.

Thanks,
Randy

In Dreamweaver MX 7.0.1 when working in code view on PHP pages, large blocks of
code turn bright red...

Thank you for your response. I did finally figure out the problem. A closing
?> tag was missing in some php code that was "include()"ed at the beginning of
all of my pages. I guess that the different colors and the sporatic behavior
was just due to dreamweaver not refreshing the colors immediately. It was a
difficult problem to troubleshoot, though. Thanks again.

That's exactly how code coloring is supposed to work to help you
troubleshoot cases like that.

If the coloring of your page is "messed up", then go backwards until you
find where the coloring starts being "messed up" and you will usually
(DW does not handle all possible syntax) find the place in your code
where there is syntax error.

It's not just to make your code look pretty!

Hope this helps,
Randy

A closing
?> tag was missing in some php code that was "include()"ed at the beginning of
all of my pages. I guess that the different colors and the sporatic behavior
was just due to dreamweaver not refreshing the colors immediately. It was a
difficult problem to troubleshoot, though.