Problem modifying text in live view

[Marcus1587]

I find that there are problems with modifying text in the live view with Dreamweaver CC 2020. I did not have these problems with Dreamweaver Creative Suite.

1. If I select some text in the live view that is inside a <p> tag, I can delete it, but often I cannot insert new text.

2. If I select all the text inside a <p> tag, I can delete it, but I can't get rid of the paragraph, i.e. the tag remains. I must go into the code view to delete the <p> tag.

3. If I select all the text spanning multiple <p> tags, I can't delete it.

This is frustrating because it makes the live view worthless from an editing point of view. How can I remedy the problem?

[Nancy OShea · Accepted solution]

DW CC is nothing like Creative Suite.  Suggest you upgrade to the latest version which is 2021 (October release). 

Click in the Live view panel until you see a gold box around the paragraph you wish to edit. See screenshot.

In Live view, use Ctrl/Cmd+S often to save and F5 to refresh.

Or switch to Design View which is faster for quick edits but not necessarily reliable at rendering advanced CSS layouts.  

Document Toolbar

[mlibkind]

Thank you for your reply. Switching to Design View solved the problem.

FYI, my references to the Creative Suite was that I simply did not have a problem with editing in that product. I am not using it. I am using the latest version. I had referred to the 2020 version but it is the 2021 version (version 21.0). It is build 15392.

Thank you again.

Marcus