Quick Edit - No Quick Edit available for current cursor position

Report · Mar 15, 2017

Greetings,

I am using the latest DW CC 2017 on Window 8.1 64bit. My site is defined, I have a linked stylesheet in the proper location. Whenever I attempt to use Quick Edit I get the message "No Quick Edit available for current cursor position".

When using the Brackets editor on the same web page the Quick Edit feature works correctly.

Is there something I have overlooked in DW CC 2017 configuration ?

There are previous discussions from last year suggesting to file a bug report. Is this still an issue ?

Thank you for any help,

-Rob B.

Report · Mar 16, 2017

Where are you placing the cursor exactly?

It makes a pretty substantial difference, for example placing the cursor in the href of a <a> without a class like this...

Will result in the error you are seeing. Placing the cursor in the same position, of a link that has a class...

Will result in "Place cursor in tag, class or id"

Moving the cursor to the class...

...or to the tag itself...

<|a href="somesite.html" target="blank" class="chaz">

...and hitting Ctrl + E (or right clicking and choosing Quick Edit) will open the css window under the tag.

Report · Mar 16, 2017

Thank you Jon Fritz II for your answer.

I am placing the cursor on a ex: ( class="crumbtrail" ) and other classes in several different files in the same site.

Editing the same web pages, it works correctly in the Brackets editor v1.8, but not in DW CC v2017.0.1 .

Thank you for your efforts with this, most likely I will uninstall DWCC 2017 and continue to use the Brackets editor.

-Rob B.

Report · Mar 16, 2017

I haven't had any real issue with the Quick Edit feature in DW under Windows 7 or 10.

Before going through the uninstall process, it might be worth validating your code to see if there are possibly any errors that might cause DW to react incorrectly to a properly placed cursor when using Quick Edit.

You can check your code under File > Validate > Current Document (W3C) or go to http://validator.w3.org/nu

Report · May 01, 2017

I have same problem. QuickEdit don`t works.

Report · May 01, 2017

Open Untitled-2.css and search for

.new

Do you see it in your stylesheet?

Nancy

Nancy O'Shea— Product User, Community Expert & Moderator

Report · May 01, 2017

Оf course!

There is content of Untitled-2.css

@charset "utf-8";

/* CSS Document */

.new {

color: aqua;

}

Report · May 01, 2017

Are you working in a defined local site with all the files and assets in that site folder?

And finally, is Untitled-2.css saved in the same location as Untitled-1.html?

Nancy

Nancy O'Shea— Product User, Community Expert & Moderator

Report · May 02, 2017

No. Should I? Does this work only in this case?
Tried your option. Does not work.

Report · May 02, 2017

And CSS is

@charset "utf-8";

/* CSS Document */

.test {

color: red;

margin: 20px

}

Report · May 02, 2017

I can't reproduce it on my end. Quick Edit works as expected for me on Win10.

My site is defined on my primary hard drive, the same drive letter as DW.

Nancy

Nancy O'Shea— Product User, Community Expert & Moderator

Report · May 03, 2017

I understand that everything works for you. But for me - doesn't. What should I do? Uninstall the program and cancel subscription?
If you need more information, I am ready to provide it

Report · May 03, 2017

procedure09 wrote
I understand that everything works for you. But for me - doesn't. What should I do? Uninstall the program and cancel subscription?
If you need more information, I am ready to provide it

That's entirely up to you. My advice is to learn Dreamweaver before making rash decisions.

I have scrambled a page together, no linked style sheet and this is the result that I get:

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Report · May 03, 2017

Maybe it will work better with embedded CSS code instead of a linked stylesheet.

<!doctype html>

<html>

<head>

<title>Embedded CSS</title>

<style>

div {font-family: Constantia, "Lucida Bright", "DejaVu Serif", Georgia, serif}

.red {color:crimson;}

.aqua{color:aquamarine;}

.white {color:antiquewhite}

</style>

</head>

<body>

<div class="white">This is white</div>

<div> This is nothing</a>

</body>

</html>

Nancy O'Shea— Product User, Community Expert & Moderator

Report · May 04, 2017

It does not matter where cursor is, on the name of the tag, on the name of the class, anywhere, always the same result!
It does not matter if styles are in a separate file or inside the HTML, it is always the same result!
Re installation does not help!
Any ideas?

Report · May 04, 2017

Please create a new site and use Nancy's document to test.

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Report · May 04, 2017

Report · May 04, 2017

Is D drive your primary drive?

Or is it an external?

Nancy

Nancy O'Shea— Product User, Community Expert & Moderator

Report · May 04, 2017

D is my second internal drive.

Dreamweaver is on C drive

Report · May 04, 2017

It could be a permissions problem. Try defining a local site folder on your primary C drive, where DW resides.

Another thought cones from another discussion.

Bootstrap component incompatibility

DW was not working as expected because the computer name contained a special character. The tech created a new user without any special characters and it worked flawlessly.

Nancy

Nancy O'Shea— Product User, Community Expert & Moderator

Report · May 04, 2017

No effect

Report · May 04, 2017

Unusual behavior in Dreamweaver? Try restoring preferences.

If that fails, use the CC Cleaner Tool below followed by a software re-install.

http://helpx.adobe.com/creative-suite/kb/cs5-cleaner-tool-installation-problems.html

Nancy O'Shea— Product User, Community Expert & Moderator

Report · May 05, 2017

I solved this problem!
1. Delete all folders from older versions here - C:\Users\[user_name]\AppData\Roaming\Adobe
2. Delete all old entries in the register - HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Adobe\
3. Delete all old folders from the - C:\Program Files\Adobe
Everything is working!

Report · Jun 17, 2017

Was having the same issues, tried the accepted answer, but didn't help.

Eventually realised that you need to not have unchecked the 'Enable Related Files' under general preferences for this to work.

I wonder if deleting all those folders and registering keys didn't just reset your settings and that's why it helped...

Report · May 02, 2017

Quick Edit - No Quick Edit available for current cursor position

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