Annoying loading animation above preview window. Can't seem to get rid of.

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Hi all,i'm seeing the following loading animation (blue/ grey squares) above my work area. Very distracting, no 'X' button or way to get rid of.Thanks.

pziecina · Accepted Answer

Wow, don't the majority of projects use images hosted externally, even when testing locally?

On restart it went away, but it happens fairly commonly. Now it's this odd ruler thing which i can't make heads or tails of, and doesn't seem to align to the boarders of my project... I have nothing that aligns completely left and ends just off centre to the right..

Anyway, thanks for your (very punctual) help!

The ruler and 'green' bar if that is what you are referring to is the 'visual media query' indicator. To turn this off, go to the 'common toolbar', (the vertical one, used to be called coders toolbar) and the icon looks like an icon containing 3 horizontal lines.

As for external images, etc. js files appear to work in general, but other resources can and often do cause problems, I have found that opening in code view does help, (though this may be my imagination and wishful thinking ).

Jon Fritz · Answer

I see that every once in a while in the Visual Media Queries bar, usually it only lasts a few seconds.

It could mean that you have an error in your media queries that DW doesn't know how to parse through. You might benefit from running the validator here to catch any major structural issues:

The W3C CSS Validation Service

That icon is used elsewhere in the program and will typically pop up if you're having connection issues and try to use certain features.

It might also be worth making sure DW can peak its head out from behind the firewall and access everything it's supposed to.

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