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rainwwater
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December 6, 2016
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Make tables show in live mode

  • December 6, 2016
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I have an old site built in tables. How do I get them to show in "live mode". Dreamweaver CC 2017

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    Correct answer Nancy OShea

    I do not see Insert Panel anywhere


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    Jon Fritz
    Community Expert
    Community Expert
    December 6, 2016

    Live View is essentially a "mostly there" browser, if your tables have no borders or colors that would allow them to "show" in the browser, they won't show by default in Live View either. Switch to Design View and you'll see the outlines of all of your cells.

    Alternatively, you can click the <table> tag in the Code View window (with Live View as the other half of a Split View window) which will bring up a blue tab in the Live View window. That tab shows a 3 horizontal bar icon, the word "table" and a + symbol. Click the 3 horizontal bar icon to display your table cells...

    rainwwater
    Participating Frequently
    December 6, 2016

    The first part of your answer worked, thank you.

    The second part, well, how do I get those toolbars to show at the top? I cannot find the place to make them show. All I have is one toolbar, which is the one beside the green DW.

    Nancy OShea
    Community Expert
    Community Expert
    December 6, 2016

    Window > Toolbars:

         Common Toolbar is the vertical one

         Document Toolbar is the one that says Code | Split | Design/Live View

         Standard Toolbar = File, Print, Cut, Paste, etc..

    Window > Insert panel = all the different little icons for forms, tables, etc...

    Nancy O'Shea— Product User & Community Expert
    BenPleysier
    Community Expert
    Community Expert
    December 6, 2016

    This should not be a problem if there are no errors in the code.

    Use The W3C Markup Validation Service to check for errors.

    If you cannot find the problem, please supply the URL to the site.

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