Design view in Dreamweaver CC (update Oct. 2014)

Design view in Dreamweaver CC (update Oct. 2014) shows renders fonts and elements as huge making it impossible to work in that view. In live view it goes down to normal. And is there a way to switch of the blue tag inspector wrapping around the elements in focus? It's driving me nuts!
What am I doing wrong, or is there a setting I'm unaware of?

Jon Fritz II wrote:
I have a sneaking suspicion that the "fix" is going to be the complete removal of Design View and a much more robust implementation of a Live View editor. I don't have anything to back that up, it's just the vibe I get from the direction DW seems to be taking.
If there is a single web design/editor/developer application that even comes close to the features and power of Dreamweaver, I have yet to find it. And I test everyone I come across. Dw truly is the last great web design powerhouse. One of the main features that makes it so powerful, is its rich WYSIWYG editor for producing and managing large sites with tons of content - otherwise known as the inappropriately named Design View.
As design surfaces go, apps like Macaw, Webflow, and Reflow nailed it. They're brilliant when it comes to prototyping designs and building & styling structures. Dreamweaver just can't compete with those types of visual workflows. Live View is barely a design surface at all, and its workflows are preposterous. That may change over time. Live View might be useful someday for prototyping designs and building & styling structures, but I would be very surprised if Live View's design surface ever... ever... ever becomes a useful content production and management surface.
If Adobe allows - or forces - the Dw team to remove Design View, leaving us without a decent WYSIWYG editor, then where does that leave web designers like myself who produce and manage corporate sites with lots of content? - It's a rhetorical question.

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I have already tried the two other solutions I've found in this forum.
First I tried Preferences > File Types / Editors, and I deleted all of the file types in the "Open in Code View" menu (pictured below).
I restarted DW, and it didn't work.
Then I tried several steps to re-create the Configuration folder (which it did, but the problem remained) listed here: http://kb2.adobe.com/cps/401/kb401118.html.
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Randy

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Design view in Dreamweaver MX04 messed up

I am using Dreamweaver MX 2004. I have tried to download at
least 5 free CSS templates from various places. All of them have
correct CSS code and they preview correctly in Internet Explorer,
however my "Design View" is all messed up, nothing appears how it
should. The alignment is all off, pieces are all over the place,
nothing is as it should be. I have to modify a line or two, then
preview in IE, the do it again and again after ever little change
to make sure i am not screwing the whole page up. That kind of
illiminates the whole purpose of Design mode. I am a visual person
so staring at lines of code will not work for me, can anyone help.
Serious answers only please.
Please do not post "Learn the code" or any variation of that,
i am slowly learning more about the CSS code, but for now its hard
for me to see how it is applying to the design when the design mode
is messing up so bad.

I'm afraid you are just stuck. DMX2004 was a beginner at
rendering CSS
layouts. Without learning the code, you will be flying blind.
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>I am using Dreamweaver MX 2004. I have tried to download
at least 5 free
>CSS
> templates from various places. All of them have correct
CSS code and they
> preview correctly in Internet Explorer, however my
"Design View" is all
> messed
> up, nothing appears how it should. The alignment is all
off, pieces are
> all
> over the place, nothing is as it should be. I have to
modify a line or
> two,
> then preview in IE, the do it again and again after ever
little change to
> make
> sure i am not screwing the whole page up. That kind of
illiminates the
> whole
> purpose of Design mode. I am a visual person so staring
at lines of code
> will
> not work for me, can anyone help. Serious answers only
please.
>
> Please do not post "Learn the code" or any variation of
that, i am slowly
> learning more about the CSS code, but for now its hard
for me to see how
> it is
> applying to the design when the design mode is messing
up so bad.
>

Sometimes Cannot Select Elements in Design view of Dreamweaver

Hello,
From time to time, i have trouble selecting elements in the design view.
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I originally thought it was a bug, but I expected it to be fixed by now.
This also seems arbitrary, perhaps someone here know why it's happening and how to avoid it.
Thanks
Peter

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The writing's been on the wall for a while regarding Design View. It's eventually going the way of the APDiv, once Live View Editing is up to snuff.

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the complete code is to long to send
the site has been running for years
it is www.christisalive.net
<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd">
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Odd CSS issue in Design View

In either Design View or Split View (in the Design view
section), I cannot mouse select or highlight text in the main
content portion of the page. The cursor remains as the default
arrow and does not switch to the text cursor. As far as I can tell,
this is a CSS based issue (since if the CSS file is not used, the
text can be selected). This occurs in CS2 and CS3. The CSS and
XHTML validate, so I'm really confused.
The troubled area is the central content starting with the H2
heading "About Us." I know Dreamweaver can be a
little on on displaying CSS properly, but this just seemed to be
too much. Any one else seen anything this flakey? Or, does any one
else see an error in the CSS that I am missing?
The big issue with this is that the code
appears fine and displays in browsers ok, but client's will
use the Design view in Dreamweaver to update content. If they
cannot select the text then it is possible they will think the
HTML/CSS is broken. Even though designs can be done in multiple
ways, I like this solution to a 3 column fixed-width design with
header and a footer that moves down depending on body
content.

The first thing is to remove this code from your file:
<style type="text/css">

</style>
The above code isn't doing anything special when you have already defined the style sheet using this:
<link href="styles/styles.css" rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" />
Once you have done it, post back again and tell us what other problems do you actually see.
The page online and your code given here aren't the same. So check this and rectify it.
G/L

Design view in Dreamweaver CC (update Oct. 2014)

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