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November 13, 2021
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Real-time Preview does not render CSS

  • November 13, 2021
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Dreamweaver 21.2 is not displaying my pages correctly when I try to view them via Real-time Preview. The pages look fine, fully rendered while within the Dreamweaver application, but when I try to view them in any browser associated with Real-time Preview, the raw page displays but the CSS does not. Yes, I've checked my code for errors. Yes, I've specified a site under Manage Sites. Yes, I've tried multiple Dreamweaver projects using multiple browsers. But still, any time I try to use Real-time Preview, the styling does not show up. This just started happening about a week or two ago. Any suggestions?

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Nancy OShea
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Community Expert
November 13, 2021

@Raymondo17,

Did you define a local site folder before you began this project?   Site > Manage sites...

 

Is the link to your stylesheet pointing to the site and not a file:/// on your local hard drive?

<link rel="stylesheet" href="css/bootstrap.min.css">

 

You can right-click on the open document tag and select Open in Browser (without Real-Time Preview).

 

You can also permanently disable Real-Time Preview from your Preferences panel.

 

Hope that helps.  Post back if you need more help.

 

Nancy O'Shea— Product User & Community Expert
Participant
November 15, 2021

Nancy, thank you for the thorough reply.

 

The answer is yes to your questions about defining a local site and the HTML pointing to the correct location for the stylesheet. This was occurring with every InDesign document I have, including years-old sites that have worked fine before. Regardless, I'm happy to report that this morning everything is magically working again! I don't know if Adobe did a behind-the-scenes update or what, but without me making any alterations, my sites are rendering in browsers once again. Yay!

 

I appreciate your input. The bit about right-clicking on the open document tab was new to me, so I'm happy to learn something new.  🙂 

 

 

Nancy OShea
Community Expert
Community Expert
November 15, 2021
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I'm happy to report that this morning everything is magically working again! I don't know if Adobe did a behind-the-scenes update or what...

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Probably not an Adobe update.  But your operating system may have updated.  And I suspect you just needed to restart your computer.  Glad it's working again. 🙂

 

 

 

Nancy O'Shea— Product User & Community Expert