Live View Options Issue in Dreamweaver 21.8

Question

I just upgraded to DreamWeaver 21.8. I am on macOS 26.5.1 Tahoe.

I work in Split View with Code-Live View.

Sometimes when I click on a line with a link in the Live View, instead of taking me to the spot in the Code with that link, it suddenly replaces my page with the code from the website that is used in the link. The only way I can go back to my code is to close the file and reopen it, which means I lose any unsaved changes.

According to a Google site, I can stop this from happening by going to View > Live View Options and turn off any options that refer to following links. They are both already unchecked already!

How do I make this stop? It is driving me insane.

Please advise.

Thank you.

L e n a · Answer

If the Live View link-following options are already unchecked, then replacing the current document with the linked page source does not sound like the expected behaviour.

Could you confirm whether this happens with both HTML and PHP files, or only with one type of document?

It would also help to know whether the link is internal to the local site or an external URL.

So far, this does not seem to reproduce in the same way on Windows, so the macOS 26.5.1 / Dreamweaver 21.8 combination may be relevant.

If you can reproduce it with a small test file, it would be worth reporting with those details.

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