Design View - problems, but does it matter?

Another design view question - I've looked through other
posts but not seen anything that's similar.
(Firstly, can't give a URL as I'm sensibly(?) doing a site
redesign offline...)
I've got a page that consists of three columns - each floated
left, each with nested divs (the nested divs are fixed width).
In design view, everything was fine with this structure - as
was preview in browser, and the page validates with DWCS3's
checker. But adding content to the first of the columns (within a
nested div) made the next two columns drop below the first in
design view - although DWCS3 validation and previewing is still
fine.
Through judicious deleting etc., I've found that it was a
floated element in a nested div within the first column, that
caused the subsequent elements to drop below the first column.
So my main question is - should I be worried by the design
view problems, or is It just an inconvenience?
(And if there's any other obvious problems I'm inviting by
structuring the page this way, please feel free to (gently) point
it out...!).
Thanks, Matt.

> So my main question is - should I be worried by the
design view problems
Yes. I'd say more, but I cannot see your page.
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> Another design view question - I've looked through other
posts but not
> seen
> anything that's similar.
>
> (Firstly, can't give a URL as I'm sensibly(?) doing a
site redesign
> offline...)
>
> I've got a page that consists of three columns - each
floated left, each
> with
> nested divs (the nested divs are fixed width).
>
> In design view, everything was fine with this structure
- as was preview
> in
> browser, and the page validates with DWCS3's checker.
But adding content
> to
> the first of the columns (within a nested div) made the
next two columns
> drop
> below the first in design view - although DWCS3
validation and previewing
> is
> still fine.
>
> Through judicious deleting etc., I've found that it was
a floated element
> in a
> nested div within the first column, that caused the
subsequent elements to
> drop
> below the first column.
>
> So my main question is - should I be worried by the
design view problems,
> or
> is It just an inconvenience?
>
> (And if there's any other obvious problems I'm inviting
by structuring the
> page this way, please feel free to (gently) point it
out...!).
>
> Thanks, Matt.
>

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Design View Problems

Hello,
I have downloaded the Dreamweaver 8 and I’m in the
process of taking some online tutorials to improve my almost
non-existent skills. I must have changed something during my
careless exploration on the application. The problems I am having
all involved the design view.
1. If I create a layer in the lower part of the page it
automatically goes to the top left hand corner but when I view it
in a browser it is still exactly where I placed it in design view.
2. If I change text using a css styles it will show the
changes in the browser view but not in design view.
3. I can change the position of a layer if I change the HTML
code but I do not get a handle when I mouse over the top left
corner of the layer. When I change the layer position in the code
it still does not move from the top left corner in design view but
it does change in browser view.( I have to change the position in
the code because when I click the layer the only layer properties
that are available Class and layer)
4. Last but far from least the only page properties that are
available to me are Appearance, Title/Encoding, and Tracing Image
This is the trial version of Dreamweaver 8 and the same
downloaded trial works great on my laptop. Both machines are XP
home addition with SP2.
I have been working on the issue for about a week. (Please
don’t laugh) I have removed and reinstalled the
application...twice.
Anyhelp would be greatly appreciated

Make sure that CSS Style Rendering did not get turned off:
View > Style Rendering > Display Styles
This is a toggle menu item, so it should have a checkmark
next to it
when ON.
HTH,
Randy
> 2. If I change text using a css styles it will show the
changes in the browser
> view but not in design view.

Design view problems in MX

Hi everyone,
I'm quite new to dreamweaver so I apologise if my question is
a bit stupid. I was using MX on my PC and have recently bought a
mac and got the mac version of MX. I'm now using on my mac the same
site files that I wrote on my PC. Problem is now the design view is
all messed up. When i preview the site in my browser it looks fine
but in the design view it looks completely different with the
headers all over the place. I am still able to work on the website
but i have to keep checking things in my browser rather than
accurately seeing how the page will look using the design view.
Does anyone know the reason for this? I'd really appreciate
some help.
Thanks so much!

Are you using MX or MX2004? There is a difference. MX2004 was
moderately
stupid about rendering CSS layouts, while MX was completely
imbecilic about
the same.
Maybe a good place to start would be to post a link to the
page.
And by the way, any given page should look exactly the same
in the Design
view of Mac/PC DW.
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> Hi everyone,
>
> I'm quite new to dreamweaver so I apologise if my
question is a bit
> stupid. I
> was using MX on my PC and have recently bought a mac and
got the mac
> version of
> MX. I'm now using on my mac the same site files that I
wrote on my PC.
> Problem
> is now the design view is all messed up. When i preview
the site in my
> browser
> it looks fine but in the design view it looks completely
different with
> the
> headers all over the place. I am still able to work on
the website but i
> have
> to keep checking things in my browser rather than
accurately seeing how
> the
> page will look using the design view.
>
> Does anyone know the reason for this? I'd really
appreciate some help.
>
> Thanks so much!
>

Design View Problems in Dreamweaver CS3

Hello folks,
I've been having design view issues in Dreamweaver CS3 on my
Windows XP 2002 SP2 computer. When placing library items in tables,
the library item will disappear from design view, and sometimes
columns or rows in disappear as well. The code remains unaffected
and the pages appear okay in all browsers, but not having preview
working correctly is definitely a disadvantage. Has anyone else
experienced this problem and, if so, do you know of any fixes?
Many thanks!
Brooke

This is nearly diagnostic for an improperly made Library
item.
Do your Library items contain <html>, <head>, or
<body> tags? Do they
contain CSS rules?
If not, can you show us a page that is doing this for you?
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> Hello folks,
> I've been having design view issues in Dreamweaver CS3
on my Windows XP
> 2002
> SP2 computer. When placing library items in tables, the
library item will
> disappear from design view, and sometimes columns or
rows in disappear as
> well. The code remains unaffected and the pages appear
okay in all
> browsers,
> but not having preview working correctly is definitely a
disadvantage. Has
> anyone else experienced this problem and, if so, do you
know of any fixes?
> Many thanks!
> Brooke
>

Nested div tags "Design View" problem

I have had ongoing problems using nested div tags to layout
my page. The page displays correct in browser but does not display
properly in Dreamweaver Design View. Highlighting the CSS id in
Code View shows the correct groupings. The code also passed the
validator test.
I am fairly new at Dreamweaver so I could be missing
something basic.
Code is displayed at
http://www.mektronix-net.campusbizcenter.com/

I've not see this before, so can't say why it would be happening. Would the pc be low on resources? but then again you say it happened even after a restart of the pc.
Maybe you could try the file cache and the personal configuration folder fix to see if it fixes any issues.
http://forums.adobe.com/thread/417116#cache
PS: While I'm at it, it would be wrong for me to point out that using AP divs is not the optimum way to create a layout.... unless you know the repercussions of using them.
Here's why: (from the Dreamweaver FAQ)
http://forums.adobe.com/thread/477969

DW CS3 Design view problem

Hi all, I have RS elements on a page and the following code
to repeat region, the region does not repeat row after row so I
have modified it, but nothing is shown in design view after adding
<tr> before "><?php } while ($row_poster_a2 =
mysql_fetch_assoc($poster_a2)); ?>"
<table width="229" border="0" cellpadding="0"
cellspacing="0">
<tr>
<td width="70" class="TDHeader" valign="top"><div
align="center">Quantity</div></td>
<td width="73" class="TDHeader" valign="top"><div
align="center">Economy</div></td>
<td width="86" class="TDHeader" > </td>
</tr>
<tr>
<?php do { ?>
<td height="44" class="tableTxt" valign="top"><div
align="center"><?php echo $row_poster_a2['quantity'];
?></div></td>
<td class="tableTxtPrice"
valign="top">£<?php echo $row_poster_a2['price'];
?></td>
<td valign="top"><form target="paypal"
action="https://www.paypal.com/cgi-bin/webscr" method="post">
<input type="hidden" name="cmd" value="_cart" />
<input type="hidden" name="add" value="1" />
<input type="hidden" name="bn"
value="webassist.dreamweaver.4_5_0" />
<input type="hidden" name="business"
value="[email protected]" />
<input type="hidden" name="item_name" value="<?php
echo $row_poster_a2['item_name']; ?>,<?php echo
$row_poster_a2['quantity']; ?>, <?php echo
$row_poster_a2['quality']; ?> " />
<input type="hidden" name="item_number" value="<?php
echo $row_poster_a2['item_id']; ?>" />
<input type="hidden" name="amount" value="<?php echo
$row_poster_a2['price']; ?>" />
<input type="hidden" name="currency_code" value="GBP"
/>
<input type="hidden" name="return" value="
http://www.email.co.uk/accepted.php"
/>
<input type="hidden" name="cancel_return" value="
http://www.printnation.co.uk/cancelled.php"
/>
<input type="hidden" name="receiver_email"
value="[email protected]" />
<input type="hidden" name="mrb"
value="R-3WH47588B4505740X" />
<input type="hidden" name="pal" value="ANNSXSLJLYR2A"
/>
<input type="hidden" name="no_shipping" value="0" />
<input type="hidden" name="no_note" value="0" />
<input type="image" name="submit" src="
http://images.paypal.com/images/x-click-but22.gif"
border="0" alt="Make payments with PayPal - it's fast, free and
secure!" />
</form></td><tr><?php } while
($row_poster_a2 = mysql_fetch_assoc($poster_a2)); ?>
</tr>
</table>

Change this -
</tr>
<tr>
<?php do { ?>
to this -
</tr>
<?php do { ?>
<tr>
and this -
</form></td><tr><?php } while
($row_poster_a2 =
mysql_fetch_assoc($poster_a2)); ?>
</tr>
to this -
</form></td></tr><?php } while
($row_poster_a2 =
mysql_fetch_assoc($poster_a2)); ?>
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"The_FedEx_Guy" <[email protected]> wrote in
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> Hi all, I have RS elements on a page and the following
code to repeat
> region,
> the region does not repeat row after row so I have
modified it, but
> nothing is
> shown in design view after adding <tr> before
"><?php } while
> ($row_poster_a2 =
> mysql_fetch_assoc($poster_a2)); ?>"
>
> <table width="229" border="0" cellpadding="0"
cellspacing="0">
> <tr>
> <td width="70" class="TDHeader"
valign="top"><div
> align="center">Quantity</div></td>
> <td width="73" class="TDHeader"
valign="top"><div
> align="center">Economy</div></td>
> <td width="86" class="TDHeader"
> </td>
> </tr>
> <tr>
> <?php do { ?>
> <td height="44" class="tableTxt"
valign="top"><div
> align="center"><?php echo
$row_poster_a2['quantity']; ?></div></td>
> <td class="tableTxtPrice"
valign="top">£<?php
> echo
> $row_poster_a2['price']; ?></td>
> <td valign="top"><form target="paypal"
> action="https://www.paypal.com/cgi-bin/webscr"
method="post">
> <input type="hidden" name="cmd" value="_cart" />
> <input type="hidden" name="add" value="1" />
> <input type="hidden" name="bn"
> value="webassist.dreamweaver.4_5_0" />
> <input type="hidden" name="business"
> value="[email protected]" />
> <input type="hidden" name="item_name"
> value="<?php
> echo $row_poster_a2['item_name']; ?>,<?php echo
> $row_poster_a2['quantity']; ?>,
> <?php echo $row_poster_a2['quality']; ?> " />
> <input type="hidden" name="item_number"
> value="<?php
> echo $row_poster_a2['item_id']; ?>" />
> <input type="hidden" name="amount" value="<?php
> echo
> $row_poster_a2['price']; ?>" />
> <input type="hidden" name="currency_code"
> value="GBP" />
> <input type="hidden" name="return"
> value="
http://www.email.co.uk/accepted.php"
/>
> <input type="hidden" name="cancel_return"
> value="
http://www.printnation.co.uk/cancelled.php"
/>
> <input type="hidden" name="receiver_email"
> value="[email protected]" />
> <input type="hidden" name="mrb"
> value="R-3WH47588B4505740X" />
> <input type="hidden" name="pal"
> value="ANNSXSLJLYR2A" />
> <input type="hidden" name="no_shipping"
> value="0" />
> <input type="hidden" name="no_note" value="0" />
> <input type="image" name="submit"
> src="
http://images.paypal.com/images/x-click-but22.gif"
border="0"
> alt="Make
> payments with PayPal - it's fast, free and secure!"
/>
> </form></td><tr><?php } while
($row_poster_a2 =
> mysql_fetch_assoc($poster_a2)); ?>
> </tr>
> </table>
>

Dreamweaver CS3 Design View Problem

I am trying to edit a Dreamweaver site using Dreamweaver CS3 on a Windows XP workstation at work. The site structure was developed by an outside vendor and has been designed using CSS for positioning -- no tables. It is my responsibility to finish the site using template pages provided. When viewing the site in several browsers -- both Mac and PC, everything is fine. When I open the site in Dreamweaver CS3 Windows, all of the positioning is off -- the menus that should be flush left of the text colum, instead, appear at the top of the text column. This issue is repeated throughout the site. Since I am using existing pages as templates for new ones, I'm forced to make edits in code view, upload and then view in my browser. My outside vendor, so far, does not have an answer to this.
This weekend at home, I've installed an old Dreamweaver 8 trial version on my Macintosh. I downloaded the site and everything looks fine in Design View. Any ideas? Is this a settings issue on my Windows version of Dreamweaver? I do have the Style Rendering setting set to Screen Media type.

Hi,
I found this thread after searching and searching for an answer as to why my Design View in DW CS3 started disappearing (even in split view). It will show a partial view, but never the entire view all at once, even after restarting my PC. I have been using CS3 for a few years now and it just started having this issue. When this issue started, nothing had changed on my computer. There has to be a fix for this. Why did it work fine all these years and now, no design view????

CS5.5 design view problem

For some reason all but two elements have disappeared in the design view, leaving just the background.
In truth I work using the code though there are times it helps having it.
I've closed and re-opened the programme but nothing changes.
Many thanks for any advice on what to do.
Paul

indvik wrote:
...However it still seems odd to me that the difference is about 350 px.
That could be caused by a code error, generally DV won't be that far off.
Run your page through the validator at http://validator.w3.org to see if there aren't some issues in your html that could be causing the oddity in Design View.
If your code is clean and it's still off by that amount, something to check would be the use of both css and html attributes to control the sizing of tables and other elements. The program can get a little confused and start displaying things all over the place when you do that. I'm not sure if DW5.5 does this (I skipped that version) but DWCS4 certainly did, pretty inconsistently. One way to fix it, even though the code may validate, is to give all control to the css of the page rather than splitting some with the html.

Design view problem, live view fine

I'm having a design view issue in Dreamweaver CS4. If you look at the images here:
http://www.honestcontractors.net/temp/index.html
You can see that design view (top image) cuts off the bottom CSS and the right area. But everything looks just fine in live view (lower image). Anyone have any ideas why this is going on?
Thanks!

Me too! I also have upgraded from DW8 to CS5 and have this problem and it is driving me crazy. I have run my pages through the W3C validator and they passed, so I know there is nothing wrong with my code. But the XHTML pages are all displaying flush left in Design View, and intermittently so are some of the HTML pages. They display fine in Live View, but of course, you can't do any editing in Live View. This to me disables one of the key features of Dreamweaver since it was launched by Macromedia years ago -- the ability to switch seamlessly back and forth between Code View and Design View! I've been working with it like this for several years and this has thrown a monkey wrench into my workflow and I'm really depressed. The Adobe phone tech in India was trying to tell me it was my fault! I showed him that the pages passed the W3C validator test and displays just fine in Firefox and Safari when uploaded to the server.
Meanwhile, there are other bugs the Adobe phone tech basically threw up his hands about: browser preview works with Safari but not Firefox (it just doesn't open at all, nothing happens). Also, sometimes after interacting with the server, the dialog box doesn't close on its own, so you go to open a file a minute or two later, and you are told that "Dreamweaver is currently interacting with a server." Since the dialog box is hidden, this has also been driving me nuts for the past week until I realized what the cause was.
I am SO frustrated right now. This is a very, very expensive program, and it should be working better than DW8 not lacking key features. Any other suggestions? And what's with Adobe's current phone techs? I've talked with 3 of them about this issue. The first one spoke fractured English, the second one seemed competent to a point, the third one had decent language skills but I felt as if I had better reasoning skills and knew more than he did -- and he was the one who punted and said "Must be the fault of your design," even though he could see my screens and I showed him that the design passed validation.
By the way Tech # 2 had me delete the configuration files and preferences and uninstall and reinstall DW CS5 to no avail. And I'm running the latest update of Snow Leopard on a Mac Mini purchased in November 2009.
--Helen

FB3 - Flex 4 (Gumbo) SDK - Design View Problem

Hi.
I have just downloaded and installed the nightly build of
Flex 4 SDK (Build 4.0.0.4005) for use with my Flex Builder
3.0.194161. When I create the simplest of flex applications as
shown below and set the Flex compiler to use the Flex 4 SDK. When I
try to switch to design view I get the following error:
' This component is based on Application, which is not a
visual component. Switch to source mode to edit it. '
If i change the flex comiler settings to use Flex 3 SDK it
works fine. I would like to start developing for the Flex 4 SDK.
Does anyone know of a solution to this problem?
Thanks
Barry.

close all project and then close the FB and restart FB.

D8 Design view problem or setting

Hi, I think I may have unknowingly adjusted a setting or
preference for the display of design view. The thing is that while
I was working on a form page the design view display changed from
readable to some sort of garbled rendition of the page. I
understand this could be a problem with my code except that I have
the design view issue on lots of pages now…the included Page
Designs(CSS) templates don’t view properly in design view.
Attached is a screen capture, and the code used, of a basic new
html document to which I add a layer…the layer views as a
long narrow rectangular box and supposedly I should be able to
click on it and resize the layer box…but I can’t. In
these situations design view is unusable.
Please help educate me.
Thanks,
Greg
Code is attached for screen capture...btw, not my code all
autogenerated by Dreamweaver.
Screen Capture of
Design View display

VIEW | Style Rendering > Display Styles & Screen Media
Type - are both of
those enabled?
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"gpederson" <[email protected]> wrote in
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> Hi, I think I may have unknowingly adjusted a setting or
preference for
> the
> display of design view. The thing is that while I was
working on a form
> page
> the design view display changed from readable to some
sort of garbled
> rendition
> of the page. I understand this could be a problem with
my code except
> that I
> have the design view issue on lots of pages now?the
included Page
> Designs(CSS)
> templates don?t view properly in design view. Attached
is a screen
> capture,
> and the code used, of a basic new html document to which
I add a layer?the
> layer views as a long narrow rectangular box and
supposedly I should be
> able to
> click on it and resize the layer box?but I can?t. In
these situations
> design
> view is unusable.
> Please help educate me.
> Thanks,
> Greg
>
> Code is attached for screen capture...btw, not my code
all autogenerated
> by
> Dreamweaver.
http://nsight.us/development/dreamweaver/
>
> <!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0
Transitional//EN"
> "
http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd">
> <html xmlns="
http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml">
> <head>
> <meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html;
charset=iso-8859-1" />
> <title>Untitled Document</title>
> <style type="text/css">
> 
> </style>
> <script type="text/javascript">
> 
> </script>
> </head>
>
> <body>
> <div id="Layer1"></div>
> </body>
> </html>
>

JDev 11g JSF design view problem

Hi everyone
I have a problem with JDev 11g
whenever I'm trying to edit a jsf page the design view only shows the tag names like the image below
[http://www.imgplace.com/viewimg134/241/9511g.png]
this is only happens when editing jsf pages and everything is ok while editing jsp
so why is this happening and how to fix it?
thanks
Edited by: user13266332 on Jul 23, 2010 10:09 PM

Thanks for the link Shay Shmeltzer.
but unfortunately that didn't help much
i tried running jdev.exe with the console open and also enabled "Show Design Time Messages in Log" but i didn't get any error message
also tried adding different libraries to project but the design view still doesn't render the tags.
any other solution?

Design view problem after upgrade to CS4

I just upgraded from DW 8 to CS4. When I open up (using design view) any page created in DW 8, only the top portion is shown in CS4. All pages in my website seem to have the same problem being displayed in CS4 using design view.
Does anyone know what the problem could be? I would greatly appreciate some help! I am attaching a screen shot from CS4. A page example is available here: http://www.studentguideusa.com/Sports.php
Thanks!

That page uses includes, and has more than one head, body, etc.
Include files should contain only the code for that section of the page, so that when everything is put together you end up with one DOCTYPE, one pair of <html> tags, one <head>, and one <body>.
Earlier versions of Dreamweaver ignored the invalid code. Dreamweaver CS4 does not.

Design View Problem

I am having an issue in Design View for DW 8.
http://www.sports-cals.com    is the live site.
When I am working locally in design view it looks like this (index page):
No background at all.   Im sure its a simple setting but i cant find it for the life of me. Any thoughts?

Hi Murray, Thanks for your response!
Yes....missing everyhting. I did not make this site, no. We had a friend do it.
Question I have now is I had been working on this at my work PC, same DW version, but just got laid off so I pulled it down here at home and saw this.   As it was fine on my work, i thought it was a simple setting here.
I had another friend look at it and his response was: "It’s a code thing. Because the path is listed as “/sportscals.css” it doesn’t connect the dots properly in the structure. Delete the “/” and it will pull locally, but then wouldn’t work on the live site. Coding issue."
So sounds like you guys agree. Is it an easy fix for someone with some knowledge of this?

Design View Problem - MZ 2004

I have upgraded to version 7.0.1 and when viewing a file, I
can see the code elements without any problem; however, I cannot
see the design view.
Anyone know if I have an incorrect setting?
[email protected]

What is the filename?
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>I have upgraded to version 7.0.1 and when viewing a file,
I can see the
>code
> elements without any problem; however, I cannot see the
design view.
>
> Anyone know if I have an incorrect setting?
> [email protected]
>

Design View - problems, but does it matter?

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