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Table not displaying in design view; difficulty resizing

  • January 30, 2017
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Hello-

I am fairly new to Dreamweaver, but I have made some significant progress with a previous template to create an email announcement.

I inserted a table and once I entered the information in a format I was happy with, I was attempting to resize it. Here is where the headache begins.

I have tried the following:

1. If I'm able to select the table (hover and click on the upper-left corner of the table), and then select "format" it brings up formatting handles in the live view.

2. If I switch to design view, there are other tables from the existing template that appear, but my table does not appear.

Ultimately, I'd like to be able to resize the table by dragging the handles around. I've seen other tutorials that show how to do this in design view, but since my table is not showing up, I'm not able to execute.

I'm also dealing with a secondary issue all of a sudden now where even thought the max width is 620 px, there is grey on the side of that (double-click to fit width) that then screws up my formatting, so I'm working in much less space to make edits in the email.

Here is a video of what I am seeing:

Dreamweaver headache - YouTube

Here is the code for the table:

<div>

              <td>    <div id= "certificate list">

            <table width="578" height="315" border="1" align="center">

              <tbody>

                <tr>

                  <td scope="col"><p>Lean Six Sigma Green Belt Certificate</p>

                    <li style="text-align: left; font-size: 14px;">Lean Six Sigma Tool Kit</li>

                    <li style="text-align: left; font-size: 14px;">Lean Six Sigma Descriptive Statistics</li></td>

                  <td scope="col"><p>Museum and Free-Choice Learning Certificate</p>

                    <li style="text-align: left; font-size: 14px;">Foundations of Interpretation: The Interpretive Setting</li>

                    <li style="text-align: left; font-size: 14px;">Designing Learning Environments: Physical Dimensions of Free-Choice Learning</li>

                     <li style="text-align: left; font-size: 14px;">Developing Effective Evaluation Studies</li></td>

                <tr>

                  <td scope="col"><p>Project Management Certificate</p>

                    <li style="text-align: left; font-size: 14px;">Leadership and Building High Performing Teams</li>

                    <li style="text-align: left; font-size: 14px;">Project Risk and Issue Management Online</li></td>

                    <td style="" scope="col"><p>Digital Brand Managment</p>

                    <li style="text-align: left; font-size: 14px;">Building a Digital Content Strategy</li>

               </td> </tr>

                <tr>

                  <td scope="col"><p>Permaculture Design Certificate</p>

                    <li style="text-align: left; font-size: 14px;"></li>

                    <li style="text-align: left; font-size: 14px;"></li></td>

                  <td scope="col"><p>Digital Brand Managment</p>

                    <li style="text-align: left; font-size: 14px;">Building a Digital Content Strategy</li>

    </td></tr></tr></tbody></table></div></td></td>

I can provide more info as needed.

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Correct answer Nancy OShea

Well for starters your code is not correct and thus contains errors.  DW does not like code errors.  Neither do browsers and email clients.   Run a Validation check & fix errors.

Best advice, start with an industry tested email template that will perform well in most major email clients.  It's not an exact science either because email is nothing like building real web pages.   Email software varies a lot even between versions.  So what you see is not always what you get at the other end. Keep it simple.  Don't try to do anything too fancy. 

See link below for more tips and suggestions.

HTML E-Mail & Newsletter Blasts - http://alt-web.com/

Nancy

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Nancy OShea
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Nancy OSheaCommunity ExpertCorrect answer
Community Expert
January 31, 2017

Well for starters your code is not correct and thus contains errors.  DW does not like code errors.  Neither do browsers and email clients.   Run a Validation check & fix errors.

Best advice, start with an industry tested email template that will perform well in most major email clients.  It's not an exact science either because email is nothing like building real web pages.   Email software varies a lot even between versions.  So what you see is not always what you get at the other end. Keep it simple.  Don't try to do anything too fancy. 

See link below for more tips and suggestions.

HTML E-Mail & Newsletter Blasts - http://alt-web.com/

Nancy

Nancy O'Shea— Product User & Community Expert