Dreamweaver CS4 Start in Code View

How do I set Dreamweaver CS4 to start in Code View? Everytime I open a new file, it appears in Design View. I want to set Code View as my default. How do I do that?

That behavior is weird. I wonder why CS4 is so restrictive then. Seemed MX was more forgiving.
As for me, I use DW for its power in -- local development (Code View), FTP-ing, powerful search and replace across entire site, colorized view of my PHP/CSS/JavaScript syntax/HTML/etc., spell checking, code validation, source control with check-out, and a couple other minor features. I have never ever used design view or split view as I am a developer and not a "good" graphics and layout guy. I borrow and/or outsource that stuff to pro's.
So I push everything up to my Linux/Apache server and test view in FF and MSIE browsers from the web server. I develop on a Windows machine.
I guess I never trusted nor even understood the DW browser. What is it actually (rhetorical - no response necessary)?
If there was one feature that DW could implement that I believe would make it the cadillac tool of the century would be a "click here to view your page in:" and then have the page be able to properly display in the latest 3 versions of the Win-Firefox, Win-IE, Win-Opera, Mac-Safari, Mac-IE, Mac-FF and any other top/widely used browser. I know there are some web sites out there that translate a page into these views, but a tool/feature like that would make a developer's world truly heaven. Of yeah, what would the site also look like at selected screen resolution sizes and with and without JavaScript being turned on. Hmm, bet that tool would cost me a mint.
Hey, have a great day John and good luck with your DW!

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I just started having an extremely annoying issue in DW8-XP.
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>I just started having an extremely annoying issue in
DW8-XP. The code view
>is
> completely messed up. I can switch to code view, but
nothing is there.
> Just a
> ghost of the split view I was just in. If I open a new
file (like css
> file) in
> code view, I see a ghost of the last view. Since css
files don't have a
> split
> or design view, I'm screwed. Cannot firgure out how to
delete the config
> file.
> Do you think this would help? Would it erase any
settings I have currently
> set?
>
> I tried switching to a default layout, restarting and
all. No luck. Little
> help? :D
>

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Hi Stan,
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> Bump....
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I'm considering upgrading to CS4. Is the new version able to
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on Opera 9 but it didn't support all of Opera's css rendering
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http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/ydn-javascript/message/23017
thanks,
Dan

dpj22 wrote:
> I'm considering upgrading to CS4. Is the new version
able to render a page
> based on Yahoo's YUI? According to a post last year on
the YUI javascript
> group, CS3's Design View rendering was based on Opera 9
but it didn't support
> all of Opera's css rendering ability. So Design View was
pretty much useless if
> you used YUI. I'd like to know if CS4 has improved
support for rendering css.
> For the YUI post, see -
>
http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/ydn-javascript/message/23017
Dreamweaver's design view is not and has not been based upon
Opera. It is a custom rendering engine. It may have had some of the
rendering specifics in common with Opera, or other browsers such as
IE, but it is not based specifically upon any individual rendering
engine. For what I can tell the Opera rendering engine that seems
to be used within Device Central to display mobile content:
http://help.adobe.com/en_US/DeviceCentral/2.0_UsingDeviceCentral/WS92CC362A-4B06-4e83-BB4B -C6B5BA379CA7.html
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frequencies.
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Dreamweaver CS4 Code View

Please excuse this question, but I don't know what to call
it...
What is the red dash box in code view? How do I set it?
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> I'm trying to figure out how to control it thought
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Sorry - I have no idea what you are asking here. Do you NEED
a form on your
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of it, use
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looking at the page
in DW's Design view, right? Or maybe are you asking how to
change THAT
appearance? Like from red dashes to green dashes? Sorry - I
have no idea
how to do that.
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> Pardon me, my error. The red dash box is in the design
view. When I
> remove
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>
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> </style>
>
> I'm trying to figure out how to control it thought
Dreamweaver CS4.
>
> Thanks.
>
>

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Hi
Check your students css code for invalid or missing mark-up, or linking to the background image. Another possible problem, (occurs on some sites but not all) is to check if the url is enclosed in quotes as these are occasionally required but not always, also check for spaces in file names
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I still just a beginner at Dreamweaver and don't know enough about coding yet. But I am working on a project that I am stuck on. It's an e-newsletter that I created using 3 columns in Dreamweaver CS4. Here is a link that I posted to my personal site for all to view.
http://www.marketingintelligence.bz/COH_Newsletter.html
Hopefully someone can give me a reason why the middle column is below the rest the left and right columns. Of course it looks great in Dreamweaver so I figure it's gotta be something in the code or perhaps the CSS file. Since I am so new I don't know where to start. Any help would be greatly appreciated. Thanks!
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