CSS Designer bug?

[ThomaStudios]

Many, many times, while working in the CSS designer panel, I will make an edit and then the entire properties pane goes blank.  I have to deselect the selector I was editing and reselect it.  Extremely annoying.

Does anyone else experience this??

Dreamweaver CC2107, latest update.

Thanks in advance.

J D Thomas

ThomaStudios

[Nancy OShea · Accepted solution]

I never use the CSS Designer Panels.  I prefer to edit my CSS files directly in code view.  The automatic code hinting features make coding much faster and simpler than working with clumsy panels.   Saving changes is never a problem either.

[ThomaStudios]

I do it both ways and you're absolutely correct about working in code view.

But sometimes it's beneficial for me to see the edits in action, like tweaking the position of an element. 

This has to be a bug and I posted to see if anyone else experienced it.

[ALsp]

Hi JD,

The CSS Designer is not a well-programmed feature and tends to make CSS editing much, much harder. The better way is what Nancy said. The best way is to throw CC 2017 in the short can and use your CC subscription to revert to the last sane version of Dreamweaver: CS6. If you need further assistance or advice, give me a holler or shoot me a mail.

Best,

Al Sparber

[osgood_]

ALsp  wrote

The CSS Designer is not a well-programmed feature

That would be like the editor and the snippets and.............

To be fair I've been testing umpteen other web-development programs recently and they all fail miserable at something, which another editor excels at. The best brains at each of these companies need to get together, we just might end up with something near perfect.

[pziecina]

osgood_  wrote

To be fair I've been testing umpteen other web-development programs recently and they all fail miserable at something, which another editor excels at.

To be fair all editors are aimed at a specific type of user, and Dw in particular suffers from the 'we don't really know who that is' syndrome.

Now to the OP's post -

I have seen this happen a couple of times, but never in a senario that I can consistently reproduce. What i did find ocassionally, was that when using the css designer it still requires the user to check the actual css file for errors, (and fix any errors immediately) and that it must be saved regularly.

[ThomaStudios]

Duly noted Al.