If you need to find or replace certain text in a folder or even an entire web site, such as copyright info, WebDesign allows you to search entire folders and sub folders instantly. WebDesign can quickly open all documents containing certain text or quickly do a replace all for every document in an entire web site. Other options allow the ability to find and replace text in all documents currently opened in WebDesign.
To search an entire folder or web site, select the 'Multi File Search' option. Then, select a folder to search by pressing the 'Select...' button. Navigate to the correct folder and press OK. WebDesign lets you filter the kind of documents that it will search. If you want it to only search and replace in HTML files enter '.html' into the 'File Types' field or select HTML from the popup menu beside this field. It will enter all the extensions from your settings for that document mode under the 'Edit Modes' tab of the Preferences. You can enter as many extensions as you like as long as they are seperated by a semi-colon (;). For example, if you only want WebDesign to search html and php documents you can put the following text in the File Types field; '.html;,shtml;.htm;.php;.php3;.php4'. The 'Keep Documents Opened' option will keep all documents, even documents who do not contain the search string opened. When replacing all, this option will also keep all documents opened if no search string was replaced in the file.
WebDesign lets you search and replace in entire folders or web sites. You can even define what types of files it should search in.
Searching in all open documents simply finds all, or replaces all, in all documents currently opened by WebDesign.
Almost all of WebDesign's find and replace options can be applied when searching multiple files including matching entire words and case sensitive searching. Regular Expression searching can also be used for multi-file search and replace by selecting the 'Use Grep' option.