Unexpected Behavior

[English100]

In editing in Design View, I'm getting some unexpected behavior. If you look at the screenshot, you can see that I have highlighted two words so I can edit them by overwriting them (I wanted to replace You have with How's the. But as soon as I begin to type the new word, that New CSS Rule window opens. Any idea why that's happening? I should add that this only happens when I highlight words to replace them. I can add words without the window opening.

Thanks

Alan

[Jon Fritz]

That is pretty weird. I don't think I've seen that one before.

Have you tried restoring preferences yet?

https://helpx.adobe.com/dreamweaver/kb/restore-preferences-dreamweaver.html

[English100]

Jon

Did the reset but it's still happening. It's making editing very tiresome having to close that window three times each time it opens.

Alan

[Jon Fritz]

Does this happen every time you highlight text and try to replace it with something else, or only when hitting the Shift + H in the word "How"?

Have you done a full restart of your system after restoring prefs?

[English100]

Jon

No I haven't. Let me try that.

Alan

[English100]

Restarting my laptop seems to have fixed the issue—for a while. I finished editing one document then opened another and the problem is back. GRRRR

Thanks

Alan

[English100]

Then I closed that document and opened another to edit and I didn't encounter any problems. I need to check further, but it seems that the issue is document specific.

Alan

[Jon Fritz]

I don't recall ever running into this issue before, but there are a lot of DW's features that require the code of the document to be valid, in order to function correctly.

Run that document through the validator at http://validator.w3.org/nu and see if there are any errors. It's possible, if there are a few, that cleaning them up could bring DW back in line with that document.

[English100]

I did that and fixed most of the errors and that issue never arose again for that document. But what I don't understand, is that all my documents had code errors but that issue has never arisen before. I am now editing another document that has code errors and its not exhibiting that same issue. So it's random. I don't know if it's a code error. If it is, then it must be a specific code error.

Alan

[Nancy OShea]

Code errors of any kind are never a good thing and should be avoided. 

Problems that are consistently repeatable in ALL files and ALL sites, are likely to be a program bug or corrupted Preferences File. 

Problems specific to one document are almost always code related.  Or the document itself is corrupted in some way.

[English100]

Nancy

I hear what you're telling me, but this has only just started a month ago and I've been using DW for three years now. I have a suspicion that a latest release has caused this. How can I contact DW techs?
Alan

[Nancy OShea · Accepted solution]

Submit Bug reports directly to developers from your DW Help Menu.  Provide your system information, the work file and repeatable steps to produce the problem.

[English100]

Thanks Nancy

Alan