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page not displaying - cannot edit - ok in live view

Feb 28, 2012 4:19 PM

I have jsut upgraded to Dreamweaver CS 5.5 - Windows 7 - My site used to work fine in Dreamweaver CS4 - I have a template with editable regions and lots of divs - wehn I ope the page in CS 5.5 - it shows the backgroudn [which repeats ] but none of the editable text

teh page can be found at www.fcrsafield.com/list.hmtl

The page displays correclty in live view - I've tried turning off"style renderign" and that allowed me to see my content and to edit it - but as soon as I saved teh file - it all disappears again - but it is there in live view .

Any help is apreciated as I have more than 100 pages built on this template.

580 Views 5 Replies Latest reply: Nancy O., Mar 25, 2012 12:23 PM

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1. Nancy O.,

Feb 28, 2012 4:50 PM in reply to notannsteer

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Orphaned <p> and <div> tags in your Template might explain it. Fix that & check back.
http://validator.w3.org/check?verbose=1&uri=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.fcrsafiel d.com%2Flist.html

Nancy O.
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2. notannsteer,

Mar 25, 2012 9:16 AM in reply to Nancy O.

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I have fixed it so it validates correctly - I still have the same problem - all my pages on this site suffer from this
I have uploaded a cleaned-up template - pls see http://www.fcrsafield.com/templates/pages%20r2.dwt
It displays correclty in live view - but all the content [the white box] disappears in code/split/design view.

Ann

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3. Ken Binney,

Mar 25, 2012 11:13 AM in reply to notannsteer

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Could it have anything to do with the template file name?
pages r2.dwt

Don't use spaces in file or folder names

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4. notannsteer,

Mar 25, 2012 12:08 PM in reply to Ken Binney

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nope - I've renamed the template - pagesr2.dwt - and it still doesn't show except in live view - missing is the white box where i put all of my content - it is the 2nd editable region in the template [first is page title and last is the footer]

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5. Nancy O.,

Mar 25, 2012 12:23 PM in reply to notannsteer

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I'm surprised the page shows up at all in any browsers. You've got some very whacky CSS rules. I cleaned up the obvious stuff and removed what didn't seem to belong.

@import url("../p7pm/p7pmh11.css");

body {
font-family: Geneva, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;
font-size: 16px;
text-align: left;
background: url(../images/patternDetailsMax401.jpg) fixed;
}

#pagecontainer {
width: 1000px;
margin:0 auto;
overflow:hidden; /**to contain floats**/
}

#top {
background-color: #cdc9a5;
border: thick outset #b1a999;
}

#middle {
background-color: #b1a999;
width: 1000px;
margin:0 auto;
}

#navbar {
text-align: center;
padding-top: 1%;
margin-top: 10px;
}

#content {
clear:both;
background-color: #FFFFFF;
margin:25px 0 0 0;
padding-right: 2%;
padding-left: 2%;
border: thick outset b1a999;
}

#footer {
background-color: #Cdc9a5;
margin-right: 4%;
margin-left: 4%;
border: thick outset #b1a999;
margin-bottom: 6%;
}

/**use meaningful names, no idea what this is for**/
.style16 {color: #FF0033}

.style17 {
font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", Times, serif;
font-size: 4em;
font-weight: bold;
font-style: italic;
color: #000000;
text-align: center;
margin-bottom: 10px;
}
.style18 {font-size: 10px}

A must read:

How to Develop with CSS?

http://phrogz.net/css/HowToDevelopWithCSS.html

Finally, I highly recommend using one external CSS file in your Template.dwt. It's much easier to manage and creates less code on your HTML pages.

http://alt-web.com/DEMOS/DW-Link-Stylesheet.shtml

Good luck.

Nancy O.

Alt-Web Design & Publishing

Web | Graphics | Print | Media Specialists

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