Dreamweaver CS3 Code Formatting broken

Hello, I am experiencing a huge deal of frustration with the
way Dreamweaver improperly formats code. In particular, the UL / LI
tags do not format correctly. Here is what I am trying to achieve:
<ul>
<li>
TEXT
</li>
</ul>
Now this pattern seems to correspond exactly to the preview
that you see when you go to Preferences > Code Format > Tag
Libraries, select the LI tag and choose Line Breaks: Before,
Inside, After and Contents: Formatted and Indented.
I have done this. I have also manually checked the .vtm file
in username > Application Data > Adobe > Dreamweaver >
Configuration etc.... and it corresponds to what I have set in the
Prefs.
However, when I use Design View to create the unordered list,
OR even if I just TOUCH a properly formatted list in Design View,
everything gets squeezed onto one line. I get this sort of thing:
<ul> <li>TEST</li> <li>MORE
TEST</li> </ul>
Here is what I have tried unsuccessfully to date:
1. Prefs > Code Formatting > Edit Tag Libraries...
2. Prefs > Code Format > UNCHECK Do not include a break
inside TD tag (I know, that's for TD, but I'm just trying
everything(
3. Prefs -> line breaks (tried Unix, Windows)
4. Commands > Apply Source Formatting (messes up my entire
code by putting everything inside the BODY tag on one line - in
other words, my entire page goes on one line now!)
5. Automatic Wrapping After Column 76 - this one is really
stupid, it just does a HARD break on each line so when you turn it
back off you have to go in and manually delete all these hard
breaks now...
There's a bunch of other small things I have tried, but
needless to say, nothing appears to be working.
Has no one else experienced this? Can you get Design View to
properly format UL / LI tags? If so, then something on my computer
is messed. But when I look at code generated by DW on some of my
co-workers' computers, they also have the same problem - I just
guess their tolerance for crappy code is higher than mine.
I'm using DW 9.0 (CS3) build 3481.
Please help! I have no hair left on my head to tear out and I
may have to go further afield.... ouch!
Thanks,
Tom

I just checked on DW CS4 and it's working as expected. If I
change my LI
entry in the Tag Libraries to Line Breaks: Before, Inside,
After and
Contents like you, I get your desired effect. Moreover, it
doesn't revert -
or worse if any changes are made, whether in Design or Code
view. I know
this doesn't help you verify or correct your CS3 issue, but
at least you
know there is an upgradeable light at the end of the tunnel.
Best - Joe
Joseph Lowery
VP of Product Management, WebAssist -
http://www.webassist.com
Author, Dreamweaver CS3 Bible -
http://www.idest.com/dreamweaver/
"tomaugerdotcom" <[email protected]> wrote
in message
news:[email protected]...
> Hello, I am experiencing a huge deal of frustration with
the way
> Dreamweaver
> improperly formats code. In particular, the UL / LI tags
do not format
> correctly. Here is what I am trying to achieve:
>
>
> TEXT
> </li>
>
>
> Now this pattern seems to correspond exactly to the
preview that you see
> when
> you go to Preferences > Code Format > Tag
Libraries, select the LI tag and
> choose Line Breaks: Before, Inside, After and Contents:
Formatted and
> Indented.
>
> I have done this. I have also manually checked the .vtm
file in username >
> Application Data > Adobe > Dreamweaver >
Configuration etc.... and it
> corresponds to what I have set in the Prefs.
>
> However, when I use Design View to create the unordered
list, OR even if I
> just TOUCH a properly formatted list in Design View,
everything gets
> squeezed
> onto one line. I get this sort of thing:
>
TEST</li>
MORE TEST</li>
>
> Here is what I have tried unsuccessfully to date:
>
> 1. Prefs > Code Formatting > Edit Tag Libraries...
> 2. Prefs > Code Format > UNCHECK Do not include a
break inside TD tag (I
> know,
> that's for TD, but I'm just trying everything(
> 3. Prefs -> line breaks (tried Unix, Windows)
> 4. Commands > Apply Source Formatting (messes up my
entire code by putting
> everything inside the BODY tag on one line - in other
words, my entire
> page
> goes on one line now!)
> 5. Automatic Wrapping After Column 76 - this one is
really stupid, it just
> does a HARD break on each line so when you turn it back
off you have to go
> in
> and manually delete all these hard breaks now...
>
> There's a bunch of other small things I have tried, but
needless to say,
> nothing appears to be working.
>
> Has no one else experienced this? Can you get Design
View to properly
> format
> UL / LI tags? If so, then something on my computer is
messed. But when I
> look
> at code generated by DW on some of my co-workers'
computers, they also
> have the
> same problem - I just guess their tolerance for crappy
code is higher than
> mine.
>
> I'm using DW 9.0 (CS3) build 3481.
>
> Please help! I have no hair left on my head to tear out
and I may have to
> go
> further afield.... ouch!
>
> Thanks,
>
> Tom
>

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part of a template,
> and
> I don't want to modify that. All I want is an easy way
to add
> align="center" to
> the H1 tag only. This goes the same, say for something
that I want bolded.
> In
> CS3, I just highlight my text in design view, high the B
bold button, and
> it
> adds
tags around the text. Now, it wants to modify a CSS element. How
> do I
> change it back to how it did it in CS3?
>

Can someone with Dreamweaver cs3 open a cs5 file?

Hi:
Work just upgraded me to DreamWeaver CS5 but I work on files that I share with another web author and they have DreamWeaver CS3. If I edit a file and save it in DreamWeaver 5, will the other author be able to open the file in DreamWeaver CS3? I have not loaded my new software at work yet because I was afraid there might be a problem. This is our work intranet so I need to be careful I don't screw the site up. We save our files with the extension .shtml.
Thanks
Jeff

Yes, provided you use DW's Check In/Check Out feature so that you don't overwrite each other's work.
There are no proprietary file formats like Microsoft Office.
HTML code is HTML code and can be read by any human being or text editor.
The only caveats are if you use emerging technologies such as HTML5. CS5 can handle that but CS3 will struggle.

Dreamweaver CS3 under Mavericks

I just upgraded my Mac OS from 10.6.8 (Snow Leopard) to 10.9.4 (Mavericks). My copy of Dreamweaver CS3 no longer works. The error message reads: "You can't open the application Dreamweaver because Power PC applications are no longer supported." The Adobe website says that there should be no problem with CS3 CS4 and CS5 under Mavericks. Any idea how to solve this problem?
Thanks

Just a quick additional comment:
If you are going the Freeware route, I can recommend Kompozer as an alternative that runs well on Macintosh. If you are looking for a plain text editor for Macintosh, Bare Bones software makes Text Wrangler, which does provide strong code-hinting. I have used BBEdit, which is $50 (and they'll let you try before you buy) along with Dreamweaver to compare differences in code as well as doing the kinds of search and replace stuff that Dreamweaver just won't do (like grep type searches for patterns in text). BBEdit totally rocks and I purchased it after one use.
If I'm working with BBEdit and not Dreamweaver, I will set up a browser (usually Firefox with Firebug) to help me look at what I'm doing and BBEdit on the other side. With a large monitor, you can see what you are doing while you are doing it.
What you don't get (and things I still rely on a lot) are Dreamweaver's handy tools for inserting an image and Dreamweaver's ability to template a website so that you build a master page and any changes to that master page (as in navigation, a new header, changes to the footer and so on) are updated globally. Also, if you have bulleted text but it's not formatted correctly, Dreamweaver lets you do ordered and unordered lists very quickly from a series of paragraphs. So it's a better visual tool for me.
I used Kompozer a number of years ago after I got sick of how N|vu wasn't being updated often. It's easier to use than a TextWrangler/Web browser combo.
My father is 81. There is no way he'd be able to do a website. So I wish you good luck.

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