View remote images in Design View

Report · Sep 12, 2019

I'm trying to update an image map and have brought in code from a remote page. When I am in split view, with Code and Design View, I can see the image maps but not the remote image. If I switch from Design to Live view, I can see the remote image but not the image map. Is there a way to see the remote image while in Design View in Dreamweaver CC 2019? Attached is a partial screen showing broken links in the Design View. I don't want to have to download the actual images to my local machine just to edit the image maps. Thank you in advance for assistance.

Report · Sep 12, 2019

I have had similar issues on and off with every version of DW up to CC2019 (which seems to work correctly for me). Because of that I always work with local images until I need to upload. At that point, I use DW's F&R tool to add the remote image path.

I don't think there is a fool-proof way to get them to show otherwise.

Report · Sep 12, 2019

I am no fan of old fashioned image maps as they are not responsive. But I can see remotely hosted placeholder images in Design View. See screenshot. Save document and hit F5 to refresh.

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Here is the code I used.

<!doctype html>
<html lang="en">
<head>
<meta charset="utf-8">
<title>Image Map Test</title>
</head>
<body>
<img src="https://placeimg.com/500/500/arch" alt="placeholder" usemap="#Map">
<map name="Map">
<area alt="example" shape="rect" coords="3,4,126,393" href="https://example.com">
<area alt="example" shape="rect" coords="169,142,337,310" href="https://example.com">
</map>
</body>
</html>

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View remote images in Design View

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