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wbear
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June 22, 2021
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Non breaking spaces everywhere!

  • June 22, 2021
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Working in live view in the main window (not code), any number of actions cause DW (latest CC version) to insert non-breaking spaces everywhere. If not for the program entering these, I never use them. Literally never.

Example: UL, hit enter to add a new list item...nbsp at the end. Many different things do it. Is there any way to get this to stop? DW still ignores attempts to delete non-breaking spaces in the design window (live view), instead deleting the first character next to it in either direction. This was allegedly fixed, but never released into a mainstream version, AFAIK. 

 

Need this frustrating and basically pointless practice to stop, as it's doing my head in. 

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      senzan
      Participant
      July 15, 2022

      Glad im not the only one experiencing this idiotic problem.

      This infuriating bug is still happening over a year since this post. How is it this software has gotten worse rather than better...

        Jon Fritz
        Community Expert
        Jon FritzCommunity Expert
        Community Expert
        July 15, 2022

        Unfortunately, DW is now in a no-real-development Limbo.

        Adobe has no plans for new features or bug fixes. Going forward, they're only concentrating on security patches and OS compatibility updates, if needed.

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          wbearAuthor
          Known Participant
          July 15, 2022
          quote

          Adobe has no plans for new features or bug fixes. Going forward, they're only concentrating on security patches and OS compatibility updates, if needed.


          By @Jon Fritz

          21.3 (which was a really long time coming) fixes some bugs in Mac. Nothing for Windows users.

          As for fixes, like the latest "security fix" where they tanked all SFTP connections to even slightly old implementations of OpenSSH? Decided to remove all support for older protocols, without informing users during or prior to the update to 21.3, unless you were following the pre-alpha-release discussion....

          Show of hands, how many DW users do that? 😉

           

          The writing is on the wall here. Dreamweaver will eventually be dropped when users get tired of all the issues and lack of attention and stop using it, giving Adobe the excuse to kill it off. Shame. This was the last of the products in the CC collection that was tricky for me to replace with an equivalent. If it goes, so do I. Save a good amount of money per year.

          B i r n o u
          Community Expert
          B i r n o uCommunity Expert
          Community Expert
          June 28, 2021

          so much noise for all that... wow... wouldn't it have been simpler to declare, and admit the bug... impressive.

            Gail5ECD
            Gail5ECD
            Known Participant
            June 25, 2021

            I have noticed this myself when editing in design view so I have to revert to code view in order to take out the NBSs, annoying and shouldn't be there. Thanks for bringing it up and doing something about it.

            - "Good English is an Art."
            Jon Fritz
            Community Expert
            Jon FritzCommunity Expert
            Community Expert
            June 23, 2021

            Visit the bug report forum here: https://dreamweaver.uservoice.com/forums/382851-adobe-dreamweaver-bugs


            Create a new bug report. Be as descriptive as possible about the method you're using to get the nbsp to show up (don't skip any steps, no matter how small they seem) so the devs can replicate it on their end (which they should be able to do without a problem).

            Post a link to the bug report here so people can find it and add a vote to it.

            With enough people chiming in, Adobe will move it up the list of fixes and hopefully get it taken care of sooner rather than later.

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              wbearAuthor
              Known Participant
              June 23, 2021

              Thank you, Jon. The last one I submitted languished without votes or action for quite a while (since February). The previous one I'd submitted was about the paragraph issue touched on in this thread. To date, no responses. 

              OK, just tried. Filled it out, submitted, and it sent me a "magic link" to verify and log in. 

              Unfortunately, that link errors out as broken, and I can't. I'd add that to the bug list, but...

               

              Thoughts?

              Nancy OShea
              Community Expert
              Nancy OSheaCommunity Expert
              Community Expert
              June 22, 2021
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              Working in live view in the main window (not code)...

              ========

              Sounds like your code contains critical errors that need to be resolved.

              1. Go to Window > Results > Validation. 
              2. Check document by pressing the triangle.
              3. Fix all reported errors in your code.

               

              If you still need help, upload the problem page to your remote server and post the URL here.

               

              Code reference:

              - https://www.w3schools.com/html/
              - https://www.w3schools.com/css/

               

              Nancy O'Shea— Product User & Community Expert
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              wbearAuthor
              Known Participant
              June 22, 2021

              Any issue I have, even proven DW faults, that's the first response. 

              This happens on all pages. Here's one, in it's entirety:

              <!doctype html>
<html>
<head>
<meta charset="utf-8">
<title>Untitled Document</title>
</head>

<body>
<ul>
  <li>testing</li>
  <li>more testing</li>
  <li>even more testing</li>
  <li>once more&nbsp;</li>
</ul>
</body>
</html>

              At no point did I add that nbsp in the last item. DW places that in the code, and  if you click away or use ESC to end editing, it remains. 

              Nancy OShea
              Community Expert
              Nancy OSheaCommunity Expert
              Community Expert
              June 22, 2021

              You no doubt hit the spacebar which is what produces the html entity for a space. 

              There is nothing unusual or mission critical about it.

              Move on to other matters.

               

               

               

              Nancy O'Shea— Product User & Community Expert
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