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Properties input field does not show focus & unable to select all

Forum|Forum|9 months ago
April 14, 2025
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New installation of DW 21.4 on mac Ventura (I am very experienced with DW CS6, new to CC)

If I click on a link in Design view, the Properties inspector shows the target value, but does not highlight it and I cannot select the value with the mouse. I can place the cursor at the end of the URL and backspace over the whole thing, but what a pain.

Similarily, if I'm looking at a CSS selector in the CSS Designer panel and click on, say, the color picker in the properties panel, the value does not highlight and I cannot select the value with the mouse. If I try to past a new value, it appends that to the end of the current value.

I know it should highlight as I have watched a number of how-to videos with DW CC and those fields highlight and select just as expected (and how CS 6 worked.) I've quit and restarted, no joy. Don't see any setting for those input fields either.

Nancy OShea

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CSS:

I'm not a big fan of CSS Designer Panels.

For me, it's much faster & more precise to work directly with CSS files in CODE view or QuickEdit mode.

Just my 5 cents (adjusted for inflation).

Nancy O'Shea— Product User & Community Expert

Nancy OShea

Community Expert

Toggle between DESIGN & LIVE view with Ctrl/Cmd + Shift + F11. See screenshot.

Double-click on linked text to bring up the floating Properties box.

This assumes you're working within a defined a local site folder and an HTML page that is free of code errors, denoted by the green checkmark.

If your document contains code errors (a red X), validate & fix all reported errors.

Window > Results > Validation ⇒ Check document.

Hope that helps.

Nancy O'Shea— Product User & Community Expert

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OldAndInTheWayAuthor

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I created a small test file as most of my current documents have depreciated quotation marks and generate the red x. On my test file I've got a green check.

When I did as you suggest, the link in the bottom Properties panel shows the link and if I click on the link in the box, a thin blue border appears around the link (bottom red oval). My issue is that the URL text in the box doesn't highlight to show it's selected. I can place a cursor in the box, but if I double-click on the text it doesn't select a word (or a triple click doesn't select all) so when I want to replace that URL by pasteing a new URL it is appended after the current URL rather than replacing the old text. Exactly the same behaviour when trying to update teh hex code in a color-picker box.

My previous version of DW showed expected behaviour and when I watch a YouTube turorial, the box highlights on their version of DW CC. Am I making myself clear? Am I missing something?

Thanks.

Nancy OShea

Community Expert

If you're expecting DW CC to behave like CS6, it doesn't. Since 2017, DW has a new UI and code engine.

My workspace uses a dark App Theme.

When I click inside the Link field of the Properties panel, the field turns white with a blue border, signaling that the field is active. Shift + Home to highlight. Or use Backspace key to clear contents.

Nancy O'Shea— Product User & Community Expert

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