Why can't I preview my webpage when using CSS?

Question

I'm using Dreamweaver MX 2004. I load up the program, it asks
me what file type I want to use, I choose CSS off the list.
It all loads up. At the moment I'm just testing to see how
things work so I copy examples from "
http://www.w3schools.com/". So
I know that it can't be the script (but I could be wrong, I still
don't know very much about all this.)
I save the file. I know that you have to do this with the
HTML files before you can preview them. But when I click on the
little globe thing which gives me the option to privew (or press
F12) , it's grayed out.
could someone please give me some suggestions on what the
problem might be? It would be greatly appreciated.
Thanks for reading!!!

Answer 1

Celi_Jay wrote:
> I'm using Dreamweaver MX 2004. I load up the program, it
asks me what file type
> I want to use, I choose CSS off the list.
doing this, you create a css file (i.e. external cascading
style sheet).
Such files are code view only and can't be previewed in
design view, (there is nothing to preview).
An external style sheet does not produce anything visible, it
is just a collection of styles that
you can then apply to your html pages.
To apply the styles, create an html page, and from the css
panel, attach the style sheet to your page.
By doing so, Dreamweaver will insert a line of code in the
head of your html page, that looks like this:
<link href="path_to_your_style_sheet.css" rel="stylesheet"
type="text/css">
This lines attaches the external style sheet to your html
page, so now you can apply any style
contained in that style sheet to your html.
>
> It all loads up. At the moment I'm just testing to see
how things work so I
> copy examples from "
http://www.w3schools.com/". So
I know that it can't be the
> script (but I could be wrong, I still don't know very
much about all this.)
>
> I save the file. I know that you have to do this with
the HTML files before
> you can preview them. But when I click on the little
globe thing which gives me
> the option to privew (or press F12) , it's grayed out.
>
> could someone please give me some suggestions on what
the problem might be? It
> would be greatly appreciated.
>
> Thanks for reading!!!
>
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