Re: Text not appearing in DW

Jon Fritz · ‎Dec 09, 2025

It's very likely an error in the code that DW can't sort out, but the browsers can. Could you post a link to your problem page? You can also run the validator here and clean up any errors it lists, especially structural issues like unclosed tags, and it may come back for you... https://validator.w3.org/nu/

Jon Fritz · ‎Dec 08, 2025

What you describe here is likely something called "Margin Collapse" between a parent and descendent element. This explains it and how to work around the issue: https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/CSS/Guides/Box_model/Margin_collapsing (specifically the "No content separating parent and descendents" info)

Jon Fritz · ‎Dec 08, 2025

What do you have set for the padding of the dark gray area itself? Sharing the entire code, via a link, is a better method of troubleshooting.

Jon Fritz · ‎Dec 01, 2025

Your external stylesheets come after your internal <style> tagset. CSS cascades from first loaded to last loaded, if you have identical selectors in both, whatever is written to the page last will take over. You should be able to put your css links into your <head> section, before your <style> tagset, to get them to load the way you want.

Jon Fritz · ‎Nov 26, 2025

It's being caused by the reset.css file linked in your <head> section. Removing that link brings the header back into position.

Jon Fritz · ‎Nov 26, 2025

The answer is definitely within the code. For the fastest answer, please post a link so we can take a look for ourselves.

Jon Fritz · ‎Nov 26, 2025

Looks more like an unfinished feature to me. It seems to be intentional, as the lines will disappear when focus is taken off of an element with html text inside. Leading me to think maybe they just didn't have enough time to put a toggle of some sort in before 21.6 came out.

Jon Fritz · ‎Nov 17, 2025

DW simply doesn't understand CSS Variables. I haven't tested them in the most recent version of the program, but everything before it will throw errors when it comes across the "--" of CSS Variables. This has been an issue for many years. The online validator is necessary if you use CSS Variables and want to make sure you have clean code.

Jon Fritz · ‎Oct 24, 2025

Without a complete rebuild of your site structure to go to Bootsrap, you should be able to add the following to your ".main-section .article3 .footer" CSS to get the indentation to stop... margin-left:0; margin-right:0; padding-left:0; padding-right:0; If that doesn't do the trick, I'd need to see the rest of your css and html to figure out exactly what's causing it.

Jon Fritz · ‎Oct 13, 2025

I see multiple <body> tagsets in your pdf of code, there can only be one per html page. That might be causing DW to get confused. Line 37 has the first, then line 185 has a second instance.

Jon Fritz · ‎Oct 01, 2025

That is the Properties Window in DW. Go to Window > Properties (or hit Ctrl + F3) then click and drag it by its name tab down to the bottom until you see a blue highlight. Release to lock it to the application frame. or You could try resetting your Workspace under Window > Workspace Layout > Reset 'workspace name' but if you haven't saved your workspace since making changes, that won't work very well. EDIT: Unless you're talking about the toolbar across the top that allows you ton insert all kinds of html items. If that's what you meant, that is the Insert Window under Window > Insert (or hit Ctrl + F2). It may open as a floating panel, if so, click its name tab and drag it to the top until a highlight appears, then release. You'll then have a bar of items across the top, make sure HTML is chosen so the HTML items are available.

Jon Fritz · ‎Sep 30, 2025

Code questions require you to give the code, otherwise it's all guesses. Copy and paste your entire css code into a forum response (DO NOT use email replies, code won't come through). Next, paste the entire html code of the page in question. Be as descriptive as possible as to which element you want to change and how you want it changed. One of the contributors here will be able to get you going in no time.

Jon Fritz · ‎Sep 29, 2025

I can't get this to happen in my DW 21.4 under Windows 11. What version of the program and OS are you runnning? Have you tried any troubleshooting steps like restoring preferences yet?

Jon Fritz · ‎Aug 27, 2025

Choose the Install Manually option on this page: https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/clarity/setup-and-installation/clarity-setup As far as I can see, you just need to copy and paste the code they give you into the <head> section of your pages, then upload your changed pages. Pasting it into your pages just before the ending </head> tag at the top should do the trick.

Jon Fritz · ‎Aug 14, 2025

Sorry, on the Mac, it might be Cmnd + Option + U for the "Put" shortcut without dependent files.

Jon Fritz · ‎Aug 14, 2025

With the page selected in your Files window, hitting Cmnd/Ctrl + Shift + U should upload only that file. If it asks to upload dependent files, click "no".

Jon Fritz · ‎Aug 05, 2025

These threads have a fair bit of info: https://community.adobe.com/t5/dreamweaver-discussions/project-seven-pvii-website-and-email-unavailable-does-anyone-here-know-why/m-p/14977479#M229398 https://community.adobe.com/t5/dreamweaver-discussions/has-anyone-got-the-documentation-for-the-following-extensions-please/td-p/14978613

Jon Fritz · ‎Jul 28, 2025

I, for one, welcome our new digital overlords and look forward to their benevolent rulership, as they harvest the unfaithful and place them in battery pods.

Jon Fritz · ‎Jul 07, 2025

There are a few places. 1. The border on line 1795 in the main.css file 2. The border-top on line 1812 in the main.css file 3. The border-bottom on line 1821 in the main.css file Commenting out those three settings out removes the lines from your image, but that may also remove them from places you actually want them.

Jon Fritz · ‎Jul 07, 2025

You have border settings on multiple h2 selectors that affect those elements. You may have only wanted the borders on specific <h2> tags, but your selectors that Ben points out, are general enough to cause the lines to also be added to the empty h2 tags in that affected area. For what it's worth, it doesn't make sense to use <h2> in this context. <h2> tags are semantic tags that tell search engine crawlers what the second most important heading on your page is. They should always have important html text between them. There are a ton of ways to go about creating space that won't confuse search engines and screen readers (margin or padding settings make more sense here). Here's some more info: https://www.w3schools.com/html/html_headings.asp

Jon Fritz · ‎Jun 06, 2025

Adobe took down the Wish Form and Uservoice forum for DW feature requests and bug reports a few years back. It's only being kept alive for current users. My guess is they'll pull the plug when the userbase dwindles far enough.

Jon Fritz · ‎Jun 05, 2025

DW is zombieware, dead but still moving. Adobe announced about 5 years ago that they would no longer be actively developing the program, moving it to a "Minimum Development Status". No bug fixes, no new features. The only things they plan to do going forward are some third party library updates, security patches, and OS compatibility fixes. I just turn off linting and use online validators instead, if I use DW to work on something it doesn't understand.

Jon Fritz · ‎Jun 03, 2025

I have this recurring dream where I'm on a porch swing with 90's Sports Illustrated model Kathy Ireland and she's feeding me a Philly cheese steak sandwich while we watch reruns of Gilligan's Island and the Ohio State Marching Band runs their halftime routine in my front yard to Lynyrd Skynyrd's "Curtis Loew"... I really hate saying it, but that dream has virtually the same possibility of coming true. Adobe is allowing DW to die on the vine. There are no new features or bug fixes planned going forward, especially anything that would require a massive overhaul of the program. They announced 5 or so years ago, that DW has been shifted to a "Minimum Development Status" meaning they will only update third party libraries (which they're only partially doing), conduct potential security patches, and fix OS compatibility issues. I assume once the userbase dwindles to some predetermined point, they'll simply pull the plug and DW will disappear from the Creative Cloud and end up in the same fugue plane as Adobe GoLive. Though they have refrained from saying anything like that, given Adobe's policy on product announcements, they wouldn't tell us until the day it happens anyway. It would probably be best at this point to move to something that fits your needs more completely, than to hope DW does any sort of "keeping up with the Joneses".

Jon Fritz · ‎May 29, 2025

In ~2020, Adobe announced that DW would be moved into a "Minimum Development Status" where only third party libraries, OS compatibility issues and potential security patches would be updated going forward. No bug fixes or new features are planned for the program, it's being kept on life support for the current userbase. There's also no planned replacement.

Jon Fritz · ‎May 15, 2025

To disable automatic updates, the setting isn't in DW, but in the CC Desktop App... 1. Open the Creative Cloud Desktop App 2. Click the Apps sidebar item on the left 3. Click the 3 dot icon on the right, next to "Installed Apps" 4. Disable auto updates

Jon Fritz · ‎May 14, 2025

I'm pretty sure the OP just wants DW's Code Hinting to see and unsterstand their custom html tags, and offer them as an option in the dropdown, while hand coding. Poking around, I found a much faster way for them to do exactly that, using the Tag Libraries Tool... 1. Go to Tools > Tag Libraries... 2. Click the + at the top of the dialogue that opens and choose New Tags 3. Select HTML tags from the Tag library drop down menu 4. Enter the text of the tag, without brackets, into the Tag names field 5. Leave the "Have matching end tags" box checked 6. Hit OK 7. Rinse and repeat for each custom tag From there on out, custom tag names will appear in the Code Hinting menu while hand coding.

Jon Fritz · ‎May 14, 2025

DW is in minimum maintenance. Adobe is no longer adding new features or, really doing much of anything with it aside from updating the browser emulator and a couple OS compatibility items. While it would take a bit to set up, you could use DW's Snippets Window to create often used custom code and assign a keyword shortcut to each that you type in and hit Tab to expand to the full code. You can also simply doubleclick the Snippet in the Snippets Window to insert from a list of custom options. 1. Open Snippets with Shift + F9 or go to Window > Snippets 2. Click the New Folder icon at the bottom of the Snippets Window and name it something like "Custom Code" 3. Click the New Snippet icon at the bottom of the Snippets Window 4. Give the Snippet a Name 5. Make sure "Insert Block" is selected in the dialogue window that comes up. "Wrap Selection" doesn't work with keyword shortcuts (the keyword overwrites the code you're attempting to wrap). 6. Add in all the code you want DW to write for you into the Insert Code field 7. Add the shortcut you want to use in the "Trigger Key" field. It should be a few characters long, and something that you can remember, but the Snippets window will also list it next to the Snippet name. You'll type this into code view followed by the Tab key to expand it to your full code. 8. Drag your new Snippet into your Custom folder. From there on out, once you have all of them set up, you can click the chevron by the Custom folder to see a list of both the Snippet name and trigger keywords

Jon Fritz · ‎May 09, 2025

In my Chrome browser, your page looks like your second screenshot. I did notice you have a PHP script in the page though. By server default you need to save your pages with a .php file extension in order to run PHP scripts.

Jon Fritz · ‎Apr 30, 2025

As Ben hints at, DW has been in a state of steady decline since 2012. In 2020, Adobe announced that the program would be left in a minimum development status. Basically the only things they plan to update are potential security holes and OS compatibility issues. They also said they would update the third party libraries included in the program, but they're woefully behind on a good number of them, to the point where it's basically not worth it anymore. No bug fixes or new features are planned going forward. I pretty much stopped any kind of web development with DW once they removed the direct downloads for CC2015, the last version before Brackets took over for the Code View. It's being kept on life support for the current userbase. I assume once the subscriptions/downloads hit a pre-determined low, they'll pull the plug completely. Until then, view it as the free web program that comes with a full subscription. There's zero reason to ever pay for a single program subscription to it at this point. There is no replacement from Adobe in their current suite of software and nothing has been mentioned, or even hinted at, taking over for it. It's disappointing to say the least.

Jon Fritz · ‎Apr 23, 2025

Re-reading your post, I have to wonder if you simply don't have the interface set up the way you're used to in CC2015. If the Properties window were missing, for example, it would lead someone to believe there are no options for size, font, or alignment. The properties window can be opened under Window > Properties, or Ctrl + F3. Once open, clicking the CSS button on the left will give you all the options you mentioned... Inserting tables is available in a few places. Under Insert > HTML > Table or in the HTML tab of the Insert Window under Window > Insert. In my screenshot above, the Insert Window has been dragged to the top of the document window to dock as a toolbar (all those little icons). It's not normally there by default, so if you were used to those options being there, I could see how the program would feel very bare bones and almost code-only.

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