Previewing/Debug in Browser

Question

Why is it when previewing in browser from DW, the page
displays correctly, but from there when navigating to other pages
using the menu, those pages "styles" are not displaying correctly?
The menu is an include file, is that it?
Thanks
DM

Answer 1

You are being confused by a) not understanding root relative
vs document
relative links, and b) not understanding how DW previews
files.
If I have a document with a link to an image that looks like
this -
<img src="/images/foo.gif"...
That's what's called a root relative link.
If I preview that document in DW, then the browser gets the
document, sees
the leading "/" and reads that as the root of the hard drive,
since the
browser has no idea where the root of the site is. Thus, the
image is
broken in the preview.
If I have temp files enabled, then DW will secretly convert
the file being
previewed into a temporary file, and hand that to the
browser. This temp
file has had all root relative links converted to document
relative links
(as you will see by looking at the code in the browser), and
has had all
include files actually embedded in the page, and has had all
external CSS
and js markup embedded in the page. In other words, DW has
made the
document into a stand-alone page.
If you do not have temp files enabled, all of these links
would be broken on
preview.
Now - if you are using root relative links, AND you have temp
files enabled,
AND you click away from the previewed document, then all of
your links will
be broken, since DW has not made that linked file into a temp
file. This is
what you are seeing.
So - if you want to click away on preview, then you must use
document
relative links for the site -
<img src="../images/foo.gif"... (for example)
These will still work on preview since the browser knows how
to determine
the current file's location and how to follow that path.
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"Dad Blame" <[email protected]> wrote in
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> Why is it when previewing in browser from DW, the page
displays correctly,
> but
> from there when navigating to other pages using the
menu, those pages
> "styles"
> are not displaying correctly?
> The menu is an include file, is that it?
>
> Thanks
>
> DM
>