Text not appearing in DW

Forum|Forum|5 months ago
December 9, 2025
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The info on the web page is perfect but I cannot see the text in Dreamweaver. I have a couple of pages in one site doing this which stareted about 3 months ago.

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Ben M

Community Expert

This could be an error with the code, or a dynamically discovered element. If the text is stored in a database and you do not have a testing server defined while using Live View, then nothing will show up to edit. Can you confirm whether or not the text is in the code view?

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capriellaAuthor

Participant

https://www.lovelandnubians.com/chervil.html One of the pages with the problem

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Ben M

Community Expert

That page definitely has validation issues. The biggest is nested HTML. You have library items that are entire pages themselves. Those should at most be parts of pages, but not contain the HTML tag. Plus two of those doctypes are XHTML and the third is HTML 4.

I was able to copy the source into DW and see the text on the page. So I don't know what is happening on your end there, but in this instance I would consider rebuilding the site in tables from scratch, or in bootstrap as a more responsive layout.

Jon Fritz

Community Expert

It's very likely an error in the code that DW can't sort out, but the browsers can.

Could you post a link to your problem page?

You can also run the validator here and clean up any errors it lists, especially structural issues like unclosed tags, and it may come back for you...

https://validator.w3.org/nu/

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capriellaAuthor

Participant

The page on the web is fine although I know the HTML is old but I have always been able to work on pages in DW Most pages from this site are good on web and in DW but a view are nott good in DW

EX https://www.lovelandnubians.com/chervil.html

Nancy OShea

Community Expert

Try disabling CSS.

Go to View ⇒ Design View Options ⇒ Style Rendering ⇒ Untick Display Styles.

Can you see the text now?

Disabling styles from Design View has no impact on Live View or Preview in Browser.

Hope that helps.

Nancy O'Shea— Product User & Community Expert

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