HTML entity missing in Design View

Hi Folks,
When I use the HTML entity → (right arrow), it renders properly in browsers as an arrow, but it shows as an empty box in Dreamweaver Design View. This is common with some other special characters also.
Any idea as to why this happens?
Thanks.
Paul
Dreamweaver 8
Windows XP Pro SP3

I just tried it in DW8 and it works for me.
Pasted in code view. →
Are you using a valid document type?
<!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=utf-8" />
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    height:219px;
    float:left;
    padding:50px 0px 0px 20px;
.bottombar{
    width:800px;
    height:59px;
    float:left;
    background-image:url(../../CL%20-%20New%20Ideas/Images/pb-home-bottombar.jpg);
    background-repeat:no-repeat;
.bottombartext{
    width:600px;
    height:17px;
    float:left;
    font-size:12px;
    font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;
    color:#000;
    padding:25px 0px 0px 50px;

"<body leftmargin="float">"
Can you say what that's doing? "float" is not a legal value for the leftmargin style, which requires an integer value. But its use is deprecated in favor of CSS anyhow.
Your pasted code is lacking a doctype or anything that would normally be above that stylesheet link. Is that just an oversight or is it really not there?

Inserting DIVs in HTML view screws Design view but preview is fine

RH8 HTML
Hi all,
Ive been working on a fix for a client, forcing a footer banner to the bottom of the screen, regardless of content in the page. Its nearly working fine, just a bit more tweaking, but one problem I am having.
I am editing and adding <div> in HTML view, so that the positioning works.
However, when I view the page in Design view, its all messed up, the content is really narrow and stretches down the page for a long time. However, when I preview, and generate the page it looks fine.
Its an issue, because the client will be given the RH source files at the end of the project, and with the front end editor looking like this its not going to be weasy for the to edit it, let alone me finish with all the content.
Has anyone come across this before? Is the Design viewer not the best at displaying div content ?
The HTML where the <div> is set off before content is entered:
<body>
<div id="wrap">
    <div id="main">
        <div id="spacing">
***********all content in here************
          </div>
    </div>
</div>
</body>
The CSS that the <div> is calling
#wrap {
    min-height: 100%;
    border-left: 1px solid #9ea6ad;
#main {
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    padding-bottom: 54px;
/* must be same height as the footer */
#spacing {
    padding: 10px;
#footer {
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    clear: both;
    border-left: 1px solid #9ea6ad;
/* negative value of footer height */
#footer p {
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    padding-right: 10px;
    color: #ffffff;
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Hi Nick
What you are doing is working outside the boundaries of what RoboHelp natively does. If working with DIVs was part of that you wouldn't be forced to create them in the HTML view. As a result, I'm not surprised that the Design view isn't totally understanding how to deal with it.
No workaround I can think of here. Sorry about that. Maybe someone else has something to offer. What I'm posting to ask is that you please report this to Adobe as a bug. Who knows, maybe they have some magickal scripting or something they can do to accommodate it. At minimum, they need to be aware of the issue so they can factor it into a future release. Use the Feature Request link in my sig.
Cheers... Rick
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I'am trying to edit simple HTML page based on the JDeveloper wizard and I cannot input specific windows-1250 code page characters in the design view of the HTML editor altough I can do it in the source pane.
The code page is set properly
example document content
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</p></body>
</html>
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On line #1 in code view, change this:
     <html>
to this:
<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/html4/loose.dtd">
<html>
At least that will give you a fighting chance of validating without errors. Use the online code validator below to check for other errors in all your site pages.
     http://validator.w3.org/
Incidentally, asking a non-coder to use Dreamweaver is form of punishment.   Basic coding skills are necessary to get the most out of this product.   Anything less is going to result in frustration and confusion.
It's worth noting that DW is NOT a WYSIWYG editor. Design View is at best, an approximation of what you can expect to see in some browsers. For best results, use Live View in Split View and edit the code.
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