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December 5, 2017
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Dreamweaver CC Design view = a mess

  • December 5, 2017
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I have just 'upgraded' from Dreamweaver CS6  to CC 2017 and my responsive web pages in Design view are a total mess - unusable.  In Live view and in any browser they look fine.  I can edit in Code view, but Design is much easier for certain tasks.

Am I missing something???

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Nancy OShea
Community Expert
Community Expert
December 5, 2017

Design View has never been swift at rending advanced CSS.   If I'm working with a complex layout and a lot of content, it's sometimes simpler to work with an unstyled page.

Go to View > Design View Options > Style Rendering.  Turn off Display Styles.

This won't effect  Live View,  Real-Time Preview (F12) or Right-Click > Open in Browser.

Nancy

Nancy O'Shea— Product User & Community Expert
Participant
December 5, 2017

Thanks Nancy - that'll be a helpful little trick.

Jon Fritz
Community Expert
Community Expert
December 5, 2017

The newer versions of DW are more prone to display problems when they run into errors than older versions were.

It's possible you have errors in your html that are confusing CC more than they confused CS6. It might be worth cleaning anything that comes up in the validator at http://validator.w3.org/nu.

But it's more likely Design View just can't render your page.

After CS6, Live View was given some rudimentary editing capabilities. Some things still aren't there, like Image Maps, but you can do a fair amount of editing from within Live View now. I'm pretty sure Adobe plans to eventually remove Design View at some point, but the Live View Editor isn't robust enough yet.

Participant
December 5, 2017

Thanks Jon.

I think what it really doesn't like is viewport width values for text.  It displays these in an ENORMOUS font size that wrecks the page - in a browser it looks ok.  I'll have to switch my font size in CSS to a fixed value whilst editing then reset when done.

Appreciate your help.

Jon Fritz
Community Expert
Community Expert
December 5, 2017

Yep, Design View doesn't get along with VW/VH units.