I'm being told this is a DW problem

Question

I think this is a CSS issue, but because it's happening in
DW, the CSS discussion forum I posted this to just summarily booted
my topic.
http://mdh-test.com/Quiel/index.shtml
http://mdh-test.com/Quiel/quiel.css
I'm recoding this site so my client can work with it in
Contribute CS3. The background art on this has been reconstructed
from little slices and dices and is now in two pieces, with the top
being sliced just above the top of the curve near the bottom. The
fill div contains a 1px-high strip that will fill in the
black-white-black of the bottom part for when the page expands. I
have a flashing gif that is hanging off the left side. Other art is
laying on top of the bakcground art.
One problem I've been running into since the beginning,
pretty much, is that the section of content between the page header
(Welcome) and that animated GIF on the left is uneditable, unless
I'm in the code view of DW CS3. If I click on that section within
design view, it grabs the page header, not what I've clicked on.
Once I go into Contribute into the Edit Page, this area of
the page is uneditable. I'm not talking about the parts put into
SSIs (the left and right sides and footer).
It's not a Contribute issue, per se, because I noticed I was
having problems in the design view of DW as I was building the
site. The CSS-Discuss list kept telling me I couldn't trust the way
DW was rendering the page, and I needed to pay attention to how it
looked on the browser instead. So I did, even though I was having
major issues with laying it out. Worked fine in the browsers. It's
not the JavaScript, because I saved a test-version of the page,
took out the JavaScript, and tried to click on the text in the
content area of the design view. Same thing.
But now the problem I was having in DW has come to bite me in
the butt in Contribute. I can't access the same area for editing,
just the area of content below the nav & flashing sign. Even if
you're not familiar with Contribute, perhaps you could look at the
code and see why I can't access this area in DW. Is it a flow issue
of the divs? Have I put something in the code that is breaking
this?
What do I need to do to fix this? Can anyone help?? My client
won't be happy AT ALL if he can't access this area. What have I
done wrong? I know I've div'ed the heck out of this, but there is
so much going on that needs to be placed *just so* because it has
to essentially match the original site.
My CSS and HTML validates.
Thank you so much in advance for your help.
Theresa

Answer 1

Hi Theresa,
> One problem I've been running into since the beginning,
pretty much, is that
> the section of content between the page header (Welcome)
and that animated GIF
> on the left is uneditable, unless I'm in the code view
of DW CS3. If I click on
> that section within design view, it grabs the page
header, not what I've
> clicked on.
If this is an overflow area, then you need to right-click and
use:
Element View > Full
to edit (shortcut is double-click), and then:
Element View > Hidden
to return to the original state (shortcut is F5).
HTH,
Randy