Includes Not Displaying in Design View

I have an html page whose content is kept mostly in include
pages. In the DW8 Design View, these includes are not displaying.
For example, a page that should have a height of 600px only
displays the masthead and footer; it's as if the includes do not
even exist. However, when I test it in the browsers, all is well.
Is there a Preference Setting or plug-in that I am missing?
Any suggestions are welcome.
Thank you in advance for your time and consideration.

> For example, a page that
> should have a height of 600px only displays the masthead
and footer; it's
> as if
> the includes do not even exist.
Can you post a link to this page? Can you also tell us where
the includes
are (or post the raw code here)?
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>I have an html page whose content is kept mostly in
include pages. In the
>DW8
> Design View, these includes are not displaying. For
example, a page that
> should have a height of 600px only displays the masthead
and footer; it's
> as if
> the includes do not even exist. However, when I test it
in the browsers,
> all
> is well.
>
> Is there a Preference Setting or plug-in that I am
missing? Any
> suggestions
> are welcome.
>
> Thank you in advance for your time and consideration.
>

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"Bezz333" <[email protected]> wrote in
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> Hi
>
> For some reason the Design View on my CS3 is not
displaying the correct
> view.
>
> It used to show how the web page would look but it is
simply showing up
> the
> wording and pictures surrounded by dotted black lines.
>
> I am using a template as a bases for all the pages and
all the pages are
> showing like this.
>
> My other sites are showing up OK though.
>
> When I Preview in Browser, it all shows up OK.
>
> Can anyone help?
>
> Bezz
>

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