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November 17, 2021
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Screen locked in code view

  • November 17, 2021
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My Dreamweaver 8 suddentl stopped giving me split code and design view. All viewing options apart from code are greyed out. How do I restore my split design/code view?

Tahnks in advance.

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    Nancy OShea
    Community Expert
    Community Expert
    November 17, 2021

    DW8??  Ugh, that's an oldie — circa 2005 & built for ancient operating systems (Win XP and macOS 10.3). 

    https://www.adobe.com/support/documentation/en/dreamweaver/dw8/releasenotes.html

     

    I'm surprised DW8 still runs. Which operating system do you have?

    A lot has changed in 16-17 years.


    MODERN CODE EDITORS:
    -- Adobe Dreamweaver CC - https://www.adobe.com/products/dreamweaver.html
    -- Atom (free) - https://atom.io/
    -- Codespaces (free, browser-based) - https://github.com/features/codespaces
    -- Nova (Mac only, formerly called Coda) - https://nova.app/
    -- Pinegrow - https://pinegrow.com/
    -- Sublime Text - http://www.sublimetext.com/
    -- Visual Studio Code (free) - https://code.visualstudio.com/
    -- Wappler ~ Visual Web App Builder - https://wappler.io/

     

    Nancy O'Shea— Product User & Community Expert
    Jon Fritz
    Community Expert
    Community Expert
    November 17, 2021

    What kind of file are you working with?


    Any chance it just doesn't have a design view to see?

    I'm pretty sure DW8 still treated "non-design" file extensions (like .txt) as text(code)-only.