CS3 Lockup in Design View

I'm having an issue with my webpage locking up Dreamweaver
every time I try to open it in Design View.
I can open it with no problem in Code View, but as soon as I
try to switch to Design, I get the Spinning Beach Ball of Death.
Worked fine until I upgraded to Leopard....Any ideas?
Page can be viewed at www.bobasbounty.net

I have this same issue on Windows XP SP2.
I have narrowed the issue down to when a large amount of CSS
is being used to display content on the page. If I do a simple page
the Desigtn View renders the page quickly without issue. Once I add
a lot of CSS elements it can take up to two minutes to render the
page in design view.

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> Would I expect DW to show what this should look like in
design view ? If
> so
> how do I get this to work ?
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"tonyb61" <[email protected]> wrote in
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>I am evaluating DW CS3 having previously used text
editors to create simple
>php
> based sites.
> I'm having problems understanding if DW can show a
design view of a static
> php
> page,that uses include php files to provide the html
code for the top of
> the
> page and the bottom of the page.
> So something like
> <?php include('includes/top.php'); ?>
> <div id="main">
> <h1>Page under construction</h1>
> <div class="page_link"><a href="hw.php"
title="HW">Hardware</a></div>
> </div>
> <div id="bottom">
> <?php include 'includes/bottom.php'; ?>
> </body>
> </html>
>
> top.php and bottom.php include some standard images/text
I'm using on
> several
> pages. They contain standard html.
>
> Would I expect DW to show what this should look like in
design view ? If
> so
> how do I get this to work ?
>
>

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> I have a big absolutely positioned DIV tag in most of my
pages,
> practically
> the whole page content is inside it.
Nasty. Why?
Do you have an overflow style on this div?
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"harpo_" <[email protected]> wrote in
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> Hi,
>
> I have a big absolutely positioned DIV tag in most of my
pages,
> practically
> the whole page content is inside it.
> In DW CS3 design view very often (maybe 50% of all
times) if I click
> inside it
> to edit the text, DW selects the entire DIV tag. The
cursor becomes like a
> cross with arrows, the DIV border becomes outlined with
a thick blue line,
> and
> I can't edit the text no matter how much times I click.
If I move the
> mouse
> with left button pressed, this moves the DIV and changes
the .css file
> where
> the position is defined. DIV can't be de-selected with
Escape, left or
> right
> clicking.
> The only way to get out of this is to click somewhere in
the code view,
> then
> go back to design view where hopefully text can be
edited. Sometimes I
> have to
> repeat this twice or even 3 times , it's extremely
annoying and time
> consuming.
>
> Is there any workaround?
> Like to disable selection of containers in design view,
or at least a
> quick
> way to deselect the current selection?
>
> This problem does not appear in DW8 when editing the
same files.
>
> thanks
>
>

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To prempt some questions:
1/ Links are correct and complete - apart from the fact that
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crosschecked
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I had this problem before and escargo suggested saving and
rebooting. It worked then but strangely, today, that file is again
showing some of the externally linked images but not all. And on a
new file, created today, none of the externally linked images are
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I'm sure there's a simple solution to the problem... anyone
have any idea what it could be?
Thanks and cheers,
JJ

Nope. Some show - some don't.
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> Bump....
>
> Anyone have a solution to the above problem???

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> What's up with this now?
>
> This is a fresh installation of CS3 on a Mac Pro G5.
Pasting in text from
> Word or Excel won't work in Design View, but it does in
Code View.
>
> I've been doing this for a while now on another machine,
using CS2.
>
> What am I missing? Did I overlook something? I've
checked in the
> Preferences, but besides the usual choices for pasting,
I don't see why
> this
> won't work.
>
> Ideally, I'm trying to improve my process of placing
tabular data from
> Excel.
> It's a pain to paste in information cell by cell.
>
> Why can't I paste-in ANY text of any kind in Design
View?
>
> Thanks!
>

Design view in DreamWeaver CS3 disabled for CSS & Java

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HTML, PHP, ASP and all other files have the Design View and Split View available, but CSS and Java do not.
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