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zan_tafio
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August 15, 2019
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Dreamweaver CS6: Images linked via absolute path are no longer displayed in the Design View

  • August 15, 2019
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When creating a newsletter, for example, I use absolute links to integrate images from the web server:

<img src="https://www.myserver.com/path/to/image.jpg" />

In the live view these images are displayed correctly, but not in the design view. What could be the reason?

Many thanks for a hint!

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Correct answer Jon Fritz

DW has always had issues with displaying remote images for me.

Because of that, I've always worked with local copies of the images and place them within in a DW Site Definition made specifically for a given newsletter.

As a final step before transferring code to the email service, I add in the necessary bits to create absolute paths to my server held images, with DW's Find & Replace tool.

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Jon Fritz
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Jon FritzCommunity ExpertCorrect answer
Community Expert
August 15, 2019

DW has always had issues with displaying remote images for me.

Because of that, I've always worked with local copies of the images and place them within in a DW Site Definition made specifically for a given newsletter.

As a final step before transferring code to the email service, I add in the necessary bits to create absolute paths to my server held images, with DW's Find & Replace tool.

zan_tafio
zan_tafioAuthor
Participant
August 15, 2019

Many thanks for the answer, that's what I do too, but it's quite annoying and until recently it worked without any problems...

B i r n o u
Legend
August 15, 2019

here as I said on the video, I rarely use live view... but it had always worked, as you can see on the video

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