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April 1, 2021
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Page with PayPal button won't open in Dreamweaver CS4

  • April 1, 2021
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I have html pages which include PayPal payment buttons which were created using Dreamweaver CS4, but they no longer open in Dreamweaver CS4. The program states 'not responding' and all I can do is close the program.

The pages still work correctly online.

If I remove the coding for the PayPal button using Notepad, then the page will load in Dreamweaver CS4.

Please advise. Thank you.

David.

Example of coding which stops the page from opening in Dreamweaver CS4, which is a Donate button on www.turacos.org :

<form action="https://www.paypal.com/cgi-bin/webscr" method="post" target="_top">

<input type="hidden" name="cmd" value="_s-xclick" />

<input type="hidden" name="hosted_button_id" value="M7LTHY6DUEPG8" />

<input type="image" src="https://www.paypalobjects.com/en_US/GB/i/btn/btn_donateCC_LG.gif" border="0" name="submit" title="Donate to the ITS via PayPal - The safer, easier way to pay online!" alt="Donate to the ITS using this PayPal button" />

<img alt="" border="0" src="https://www.paypal.com/en_GB/i/scr/pixel.gif" width="1" height="1" />

</form>

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3 replies

Nancy OShea
Community Expert
Nancy OSheaCommunity Expert
Community Expert
April 1, 2021

CS4 is grossly outdated software from 2008.  By that I mean, it cannot understand modern HTML5 and CSS3 code much less render it properly.  I don't think you're doing your organization any favors with outdated web software.  

 

Your home page is throwing 40+ code errors and warnings.  And that's just the home page.  I haven't looked at the others.

http://validator.w3.org/check?verbose=1&uri=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.turacos.org%2F

 

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-- Adobe Dreamweaver CC - (subscription only) https://www.adobe.com/products/dreamweaver.html
-- Pinegrow - (subscription or single purchase) https://pinegrow.com/
-- Visual Studio Code (open source code editor) - https://code.visualstudio.com/

 

Nancy O'Shea— Product User & Community Expert
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osgood_
Legend
April 1, 2021

Works ok for me in DWCS4 - Both the button code and the the rest of the pages code opens.

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defaultysozlrzh9gk6Author
Participant
April 1, 2021

Perhaps I need to reinstall Dreamweaver CS4.

I have the original CD and licence.

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osgood_
Legend
April 1, 2021

Actually wait a moment before you do that, it actually doesnt work. It freezes CS4 if I try and view just the button code in design view. It only opens successfully in code view.

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    Community Expert
    Ben MCommunity Expert
    Community Expert
    April 1, 2021

    I don't recall DW having built-in paypal button functionality. Was this a third party addon that you were using?

     

    The thought I'm having is that this button code is old and out of date, and while it may still work on the web, it is causing an issue in DW because the page might be taking too long to respond.  Can you try going to Paypal and re-generating the code and see whether it is the same or not.  If not, I would try the new embed code in Dreamweaver and see if you still run into the same issue as you are now.

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    defaultysozlrzh9gk6Author
    Participant
    April 1, 2021

    Thank you for your thoughts.

    I had already tried that and did a new donate button on PayPal:

    <form action="https://www.paypal.com/donate" method="post" target="_top">

    <input type="hidden" name="hosted_button_id" value="TPGGA5BF3966Q" />

    <input type="image" src="https://www.paypalobjects.com/en_GB/i/btn/btn_donate_LG.gif" border="0" name="submit" title="PayPal - The safer, easier way to pay online!" alt="Donate with PayPal button" />

    <img alt="" border="0" src="https://www.paypal.com/en_GB/i/scr/pixel.gif" width="1" height="1" />

    </form>

    Sadly it has the same problem. As soon as I paste the coding into the page using Notepad, it then won't open in Dreamweaver CS4.

    Jon Fritz
    Community Expert
    Jon FritzCommunity Expert
    Community Expert
    April 1, 2021

    DW might be having an issue with a code error. 

    Go to http://validator.w3.org/nu to run the code and clean out anything it finds. 



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