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What happened to Design-Time Stylesheets?

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February 2, 2017
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Please tell me they did not remove Design-Time Stylesheets during my hiatus from development.

How do those of us that use header include files (among other includes) during development supposed to see the content in anything but raw text? Design (or Split) view used to offer a pretty fair representation of the end product while working directly on one of the included files.

Are we expected to just start working from the container file (the one doing the including) from now on? That's the only way I get to see some kind of formatting.

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Correct answer ALsp

And here is a helpful and happy and simple answer

We have created a tool to add Design Time CSS capabilities and Server Side Includes back into Dreamweaver:

PVII DW Tools 1

I guess Nancy must have forgotten.

ALsp

Legend

Just to add some clarity on the Include part of your question here...

Dreamweaver dropped support for adding a server-side directive. It did not drop support for displaying server-side includes in Design View. As a matter of fact, if you click on included content in Design View, the Property Inspector (if you have it turned on) will display include info, as it always has, which proves to me that Adobe removed the feature mindlessly, and ineptly... simply removing it from the Insert menu, while not removing the code behind it.

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Inspiring

I started looking up a tutorial on setting up a testing server, and... ugh... why? Just why? It seems so unnecessarily complicated. A dedicated machine? Special software? That can't be right. (Maybe I read the wrong tutorial?)

I don't really need DW to act like a browser, I have temp files pulled up by the browsers themselves for that. I just need to ghost-apply a stylesheet to raw HTML files in the live view pane while I'm working on them. Why remove that ability and not replace it with anything?

(I feel like Rick waking up in that empty hospital in S01E01 of TWD. Ha.)

Nancy OShea

Community Expert

You read the wrong tutorial.

Setting up a local testing server literally takes 5 mins.

You download free Wamp or Xampp or Mamp for your OS & install it.

WAMP for Windows - http://www.wampserver.com/en/

XAMPP for Windows - http://www.apachefriends.org/en/xampp-windows.html

XAMPP for Mac - http://www.apachefriends.org/en/xampp-macosx.html

MAMP for Mac - http://www.mamp.info/en/downloads/index.html

2. Define your testing server in DW Site > Manage Sites.

Basic tab:

Advanced tab:

Final screen:

Nancy

Nancy O'Shea— Product User & Community Expert

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Inspiring

I am marking your post as helpful rather than correct because the commercial alternative proposed more directly caters to the question asked in the OP (and it might help someone else) but it seems inevitable that once I'm through my various stages of grief (sigh) I'm going to have to follow those instructions of yours. (Since I try to keep my online purchases to a minimum for paranoid safety reasons, a testing server seems inevitable.)

ALspCorrect answer

Legend

And here is a helpful and happy and simple answer

We have created a tool to add Design Time CSS capabilities and Server Side Includes back into Dreamweaver:

PVII DW Tools 1

I guess Nancy must have forgotten.

Nancy OShea

Community Expert

Design-Time Stylesheets were removed from DW quite some time ago.

I'm not sure I understand the problem though. Includes are just code snippets. If you have a testing server installed & set-up, you should be able to see includes in Split View as shown in my screenshot.