Element Quick View:

• Review the markup in your document using the new Element Quick View, which renders an interactive HTML tree for both static and dynamic content.

New editing capabilities in Live View:

• Inspect and change any of the HTML element's properties right in Live View and see how they look without refreshing anything.
• Quick Property Inspector
• Live View now displays Quick Property Inspector for HTML elements in your pages. Based on the HTML element that you select, the Quick Property Inspector lets you edit attributes or text directly in Live View.
• Element Display
• With the new Element Display, you can now associate HTML elements with classes and IDs directly in Live View. The Element Display hints you with the available classes and IDs to help you quickly view and choose the required option.
• Live text editing
• You can now edit text directly in Live View and preview the changes without having to switch between different views.
• Live View Property Inspector
• The Property Inspector is now made available in Live View so that you can quickly make edits to your page without switching to Design or Code view.
• Live Insert
• In this release, you can insert HTML elements directly into the Live View using the Insert panel. The elements are inserted in real-time without any need to switch modes. You can also preview your changes right away.

CSS Designer enhancements:

• A tabbed control that helps you set all the four border properties in an easy and intuitive way.
• Tabbed control to avoid seeing all values at once reducing confusion.
• Intuitive and friendly icons that any beginner can follow.
• Two sets of icons to indicate unset/deleted and disabled states.
• A one-stop “All sides” tab to set all border properties at once.
• Computed row that directs you to the most appropriate tab while inspecting.
• Copy-paste styles
• You can now copy styles from one selector and paste into another. You can copy all styles or copy only specific category of styles such as Layout, Text, and Border.
• Quick edit text boxes
• Dreamweaver now includes quick-edit text boxes in which you can specify the shorthand code for properties such as margin, padding, border, and border-radius.
• Enhancements to custom properties workflow
• A set of text boxes - property name and value - are made readily available at the end of the Properties list. These text boxes let you directly type in the property name and its value without having to click +.
• Keyboard shortcuts
• You can now add or delete CSS selectors and properties using keyboard shortcuts. You can also navigate between the property groups in the Properties pane.
• More Specific/Less Specific Selectors
• With this release, Dreamweaver provides upto three (or fewer) rule hints while you add a selector. You can make it more specific or less specific using up/down arrow key.
• Scroll to category
• Earlier, when you clicked Background or Other category at the top of the Properties pane in CSS Designer, these categories were made ‘visible’ in the pane. The categories were not actually displayed at the top of the pane.

Support for SFTP connections using Identity File:

• You can connect to your publishing servers over SFTP using private-public key pairs and identity keys (with or without passphrase). With this enhancement to Dreamweaver, your choice of web hosting service providers has become wider - you can subscribe to any service provider that requires you to use private-public key pairs for authentication.

Undo/Redo enhancements:

• New enhancements to the undo/redo feature, you can undo/redo an operation directly from the Live View of a document or form the CSS Designer panel. These changes then get automatically reflected in the associated CSS file. To let you know that the related file has changed, the affected file’s tab is highlighted for a while (around 8 seconds).
• When you undo/redo an action from the CSS Designer panel, the Live View is automatically refreshed.
• When you edit the document using the source code, and undo the changes from Live View, the display changes to Split view and the related source code is brought into focus.
• All undo/redo actions are recorded at the HTML file-level.

Changes to Business Catalyst and PhoneGap Build workflows:

• Business Catalyst and PhoneGap Build are now made available as add-ons to Dreamweaver. You need to first install Business Catalyst and PhoneGap Build as extensions and then continue to use these services as before.
• Changes in accessing extensions for Dreamweaver:
• You can now view and install Dreamweaver extensions using Adobe Creative Cloud. The extensions are now referred to as 'Add-ons'.

Changes to sync settings:

• The sync settings feature in Dreamweaver allows you to keep your settings synchronized with Dreamweaver instances on your computers and Creative Cloud. Dreamweaver CC 2014 automatically detects if you had enabled sync settings in the earlier version of Dreamweaver and lets you import those settings from Creative Cloud.

Submit bug/feature request directly from Dreamweaver:

• You can now directly access the Wishlist form and bug report form from within Dreamweaver - Help > Submit Bug/Feature Request.

Help Center:

• Learn how to use new features and how to tackle common tasks from within Dreamweaver with the new Help Center.
• New Feature walkthrough
• Dreamweaver now includes a mini tour of new features that are shipped with the latest release.
• In addition to introducing the new features, the tour also leads you to a video gallery where you can see the new features in action.
• Video gallery
• At the end of the new feature walkthrough, the video gallery is displayed with videos
• related to the new features. When you hover your mouse over the thumbnails, a brief
• description about the video is displayed.
• In-app messages
• Dreamweaver now prompts you with productivity-boosting tips while you are working
• on your projects. These tips are aimed at helping you accomplish the current task that you are doing in a more efficient way.
• In-product messages
• Dreamweaver integrates seamlessly with many other applications on Creative Cloud
• and in-product messages introduce such integration workflows to you.

Changes to Help menu:

• Help menu is now reorganized to provide quick access to new feature walkthrough, video gallery, help and learn resources, and submit bug/feature request form.