Dreamweaver keeps losing track of my external stylesheet in the same directory & trying to load it s

[tattiedave]

I've been using Dreamweaver for some time but in the site I'm now working on, whenever I click on the extrnal stylesheet Dreamweaver loads it in Split Screen & loses it. It gives a notice saying it's not on the Remote Sever. What is going on?

[tattiedave]

Forgot to say that my site is all setup in Dreaweaver so knows exactly where everything should be, folders etc.

[L e n a · Accepted solution]

I don't know in which sense you mean the word, in the same place, as far as I can see, your PHP document is in a doc folder, and your CSS style in the root of the site... so the path should look like ../style.css ... is that right?

[tattiedave]

Oh my goodness, you're right. I never saw that. How stupid of me! The index file is in the root directory (of course) & refers to the CSS in the same place. I created all the other pages using the same hed, before deciding to move them all into a seperate folder. Ignoramus. I will now update the headers in all the other pages to refer to the CSS on the site root.

Apologies for being so stupid.

Don't suppose you know why Dreanweaver tries to open lost CSS sheets in Split View??

[Nancy OShea]

To parse PHP files locally, you need a local testing server.

Did you define it in Dreamweaver's Site Manager?

Is your local testing server running?

[L e n a]

Don't suppose you know why Dreanweaver tries to open lost CSS sheets in Split View??

By @tattiedave

I'm glad this helped and provided you a solution!

The fact that DW opens a document in split view or simply in code view has no real interaction with your problem.
Rather, it is a preference of DW to remember your last display choice.

However, as @Nancy OShea , points out, because your pages use PHP, it is important that you set up a testing server, especially if you want to use the real-time rendering features.

[tattiedave]

Thanks for your help. By the way, I always setup a testing server, although it's an identical copy of the actual server. I presume that's OK to do?