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aiseruchan
aiseruchan
New Participant
June 15, 2017
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Dreamweaver CC not previewing HTML in browser

  • June 15, 2017
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Real-time Preview brings me to a 127.0.0.1:61772/preview/app/index.html  instead of opening the HTML directly to the browser. Please help me, I have been looking for answers on how to fix this but I cannot find anything and nothing seems to work. I want to view my HTML directly into the browser just like CS5. Please provide a step-by-step instruction for me to follow. I am using CC 2017. Thank you.

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Correct answer Jon Fritz

Actually, looking at your screenshot, you've forgotten to define a site, or maybe forgotten to select the site first from the dropdown menu in the Files window.

Without defining a site, DW won't work correctly. here's a video....

Define a site |

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stefanol94016633
New Participant
July 23, 2020

Hi,

The preview in browser doesn't works on Google Chrome  

It add "macintosh%20hd" in the path.

On Safari and Firefox il works fine and the path is correct:

 

Any explanation why is it happening?

Thank you very much,

Stefano

magnetic_help0D44
magnetic_help0D44
New Participant
December 15, 2020

 

When you click on the preview icon on the bottom right (it looks like a monitor with a globe and a mobile phone) a dialog box expands to select which browser you want to view it on. Instead of choosing a browser click "Edit List" on the top right of that dialog box.  Now where it says Options, make sure the box is checked (Preview using temporary file). Click apply then close the window.

 

It's not a complete fix but atleast now you can preview what your doing.

 

Good Luck!!

Sincerely

Jose

Jon Fritz
Jon Fritz
Community Expert
June 15, 2017

The older Preview in Browser is now called Open in Browser and is available in two locations...

1. If you have your documents set as tabs in the workspace, you can right click the named tab of the document and choose "Open in Browser" (the last option in the context menu).
2. You can right click any file in the Files window and choose the "Open in Browser" option (6th from bottom) in the context menu.

Both will give you the same browser options as the new Live Preview, but will open the actual file on your local machine (localhost/folder/file.html if you have a testing server, or file: //C:/users/username/folder/file.html if you don't), vs routing through Adobe's servers and giving that weird IP address/framed location.

    aiseruchan
    aiseruchanAuthor
    New Participant
    June 15, 2017

    Thanks for your reply!

    Right clicking the tab and choosing "Open in Browser" brings me to  //C:/users/username/folder/file.html with this message in the browser

    Your file was not found

    It may have been moved or deleted.

    ERR_FILE_NOT_FOUND

    Doing the second one as you stated leads me to the same URL and error. My files are in the right place and folder. I'm not sure why this is happening. I have never encountered this before using CS5.

    Jon Fritz
    Jon Fritz
    Community Expert
    June 15, 2017

    Have you defined a site in DW yet?

    The Live Preview is showing a page without css styling added. That usually happens if you forget to define your site first.

    Niharika Jha
    Adobe Employee
    Niharika Jha
    Adobe Employee
    June 15, 2017

    Hi,

    Real Time Preview not working on Microsoft Edge and Internet Explorer is a known issue, and there is nothing on the Dreamweaver side that we can do. It works fine on Chrome, Mozilla and Safari.

    Also, if you could please send the screenshot of what you see on the browser tab? Is there any error message shown?

    Regards,

    Niharika Gupta

    Adobe Dreamweaver

    aiseruchan
    aiseruchanAuthor
    New Participant
    June 15, 2017

    Hi, thanks for replying. I'm not using Internet Explorer nor Microsoft Edge, but I am currently using Google Canary.

    (1) Opt + F12 leads me to this:

    Clicking on any blue link leads me to this:

    (2) Doing any of these two

    ... leads me to this:

    Any explanation why is it happening? Thank you very much. This has been my problem since morning...

      Jon Fritz
      Jon FritzCorrect answer
      Community Expert
      June 15, 2017

      Actually, looking at your screenshot, you've forgotten to define a site, or maybe forgotten to select the site first from the dropdown menu in the Files window.

      Without defining a site, DW won't work correctly. here's a video....

      Define a site |

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