CS4 - An unexpected error occurred while trying to read style-sheet information

[JayNewWeb]

Lately in DW4 my CSS file has intermittently been giving me the following error when I try save or open .classes from the CSS Styles panel:

"An unexpected error occurred while trying to read style-sheet information."

Here's the CSS file.

Thanks.

[BenPleysier]

A warning: Duplicate property text-align in

.disclaimer {

     text-align:left;

     font-size:11px;

     text-align:center;

     color: #343735;

}

An error: Color has an invalid value

.quotationattr {

     font-family: Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif;

     font-size: 14px;

     font-style: normal;

     font-weight: normal;

     color: #0;

     border-bottom: 2px solid #ddd;

     margin-top: 0px;

     margin-right: 40px;

     margin-bottom: 30px;

     margin-left: 40px;

     padding-top: 0px;

     padding-right: 40px;

     padding-bottom: 24px;

     padding-left: 40px;

}

[JayNewWeb]

I made the changes you pointed out, but it's still "intermittently" not working.

Here's the new file.

Thanks.

[Nancy OShea]

Can we safely assume that all background-images expressed in your CSS are in the same folder as your CSS file?

I ask because I prefer to organize my site's assets in separate folders for images, css and scripts.  See screenshot.

Having said that, my path to background-images would be different than yours because my CSS is in one folder and images are in another.

../images/filename.png

[JayNewWeb]

I didn't build the website but, yes, it does appear that the background images are in the same folder as the CSS file:

[Nancy OShea]

If  your code validates without errors, see links below:

  - CSS - http://jigsaw.w3.org/css-validator/

  - HTML - http://validator.w3.org/

  - HTML5 - https://validator.w3.org/nu/

then try Restore Preferences.

Restore preferences in Dreamweaver CS4, CS5, and CS5.5

[JayNewWeb]

My web guy ran one of those tow validators. I'll have to ask him to run the other one. The problem exists for multiple webpages, FWIW.

Thanks.

[BenPleysier]

The problem does not appear to be caused by the code that you have made us privy to. Perhaps the problem lies elsewhere. The best way for us to help you is for you to supply the link to your site.

[JayNewWeb]

www.argentechinc.com

There are some pages not accessible through the menu which is what I've been working on, so that's where it's been occurring that I've been seeing, but they're in the root directly and it's happening on multiple pages.

Thanks!

[JayNewWeb]

Here's one of the hidden pages it's been happening on:

Contributing

[BenPleysier]

JayNewWeb  wrote

Here's one of the hidden pages it's been happening on:

Contributing

Have a look at Showing results for http://www.argentechinc.com/contributing.shtml - Nu Html Checker in particular entry #26. I am not saying that this is the definite cause of the problem,it is a matter of elimination.

[BenPleysier]

JayNewWeb  wrote

Here's one of the hidden pages it's been happening on:

Contributing

This page is not so bad [Invalid] Markup Validation of http://www.argentechinc.com/public/ - W3C Markup Validator

[JayNewWeb]

I really appreciate the help. I'm not sure how much examining this file is the way to find the cause, though. I want to please point out that this same issue has been manifesting for another page on this site, also in the root, that used to work fine all along before. That's not a page I want to share publicly here, though.

And the problem cropped up only recently, for what it's worth. It all worked fine through the last time I worked on pages about a month ago or two ago. And I've been using the same style sheet for some time.

The behavior has manifested about equally with either of those two pages in question (I haven't really tried working in other files as yet).

And, oddly enough, as I've said, it's intermittent. Sometimes everything works fine, and sometimes:

- I can't even open the settings when double-clicking on the name of a style in the right-hand CSS Styles column

- I can open or create a style but it won't save (I get that error message)

- I can modify and save a style but then it won't reflect the changes when I look in the CSS file

Then, I try again and it might work fine. And I can't find any kind of pattern to the behavior.

[BenPleysier]

You are right as far as the errors are concerned, most of them will have no effect on DW. That is why I pointed to the one entry that could cause the problem in DW, namely a non-matching closing paragraph tag.

I have found that DW does not take kindly to coding errors, that is why I asked you to correct that one entry. It is worth a try, after all it is a matter of elimination to get behind the real culprit.

[B i r n o u]

just a question, you said that you was using CS4, what is your OS and platform ?