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1. Nancy O.,

Sep 17, 2012 12:25 PM in reply to fred_f

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Which layout are you using?

Or are you making new pages from DW Templates?

Can you show us your code please?

Nancy O.

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2. fred_f,

Sep 17, 2012 1:32 PM in reply to Nancy O.

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I am attempting to change the Dreamweaver default color of a new HTML page,

i.e., File > New > Blank Page > HTML > None > DocType: HTML5 > Create. The

resultant page in Design view is yellow.

(All the pages I create in the Dreamweaver tutorial I'm working on have a

yellow background in Design view. They view correctly in Live view and in

the browser.)

Code:

<!doctype html>
<html>
<head>
<meta charset="UTF-8">
<title>Untitled Document</title>
</head>
<body>
</body>
</html>

Page Properties, both Appearance (CSS) and Appearance (HTML) do not show a

Background color of yellow. Neither does Dreamweaver Preferences, at least

where I looked.

I be stumped!!

Fred Mentzer

PS BTW, I am using Dreamweaver CS6 for Mac. The opsys is OS X 10.8

Mountain Lion.

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3. Nancy O.,

Sep 17, 2012 2:26 PM in reply to fred_f

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I can't reproduce this at my end. I'm using CS6 on Windows. All my pages are default white.

The only thing I can think of that might cause this is CSS Layout Backgrounds in the Visual Aids window.

Go to View > Visual Aids > Hide All Visual Aids.

Nancy O.

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4. fred_f,

Sep 17, 2012 2:50 PM in reply to Nancy O.

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Nope. Made no difference hiding Visual Aids. Bummer!

I'm totally stumped as to why the default color is yellow. I do know that

the website where I'm the webmaster, all the pages have a yellow background

( http://281st.com ). But what that has to do with a new HTML default

background page color in Dreamweaver I'm not knowingŠŠŠ

I was thinking that it could be a system glitch, but other application new

pages are all white (Outlook, MS Word, Notes, Pages, etc). I'm now going to

uninstall/reinstall Dreamweaver to see if that solves the problem.

I'll keep you posted,

Fred

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5. fred_f,

Sep 17, 2012 3:35 PM in reply to Nancy O.

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WellŠŠ.. BUMMER!

Uninstalled and reinstalled DW6. Used the Delete Preferences feature in the

uninstall. To no avail. Still the default yellow new HTML page (see

attached).

Ah wellŠ..

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6. fred_f,

Sep 22, 2012 11:58 AM in reply to Nancy O.

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UPDATE

Finally solved the problem. After many days and hours wrestling with the

yellow page dilemma and many hours (wasted) with Adobe help I worked it out

myself. I don't know the "whys" but I do know that the Design view desktop,

whether new or a tutorial pages, are now white.

What I discovered was somehow old Dreamweaver files were creating the

problem with DW CS6. I previously had installed DW CS4, 5, and 5.5. I went

into the Library ( 'Finder' > Option key 'GO' > Library > ) and deleted any

of the older DW version files. In particular the plist files. For good

measure I uninstalled DW CS6 along with Preferences.

After downloading and reinstalling DW CS6 all is well.

Whew!!

Fred

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7. Nancy O.,

Sep 22, 2012 12:34 PM in reply to fred_f

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Glad you got this resolved.

Really appreciate the update, too 'cuz I never would have considered files from previous installations. Weird.

Nancy O.

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8. mytaxsite.co.uk,

Sep 23, 2012 4:45 PM in reply to fred_f

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I'm totally stumped as to why the default color is yellow. I do know that
the website where I'm the webmaster, all the pages have a yellow background
( http://281st.com ). But what that has to do with a new HTML default
background page color in Dreamweaver I'm not knowingŠŠŠ

The reason is the background color is hard wired in the body like this:

<body bgcolor="#FFFFCC" style="text-align: center">

Now if you are relying on your styles then you are going to be totally stumped because you won't be looking at your HTML code. In fact most people won't remember to look at HTML code because they assume that because your work is quite proficient, you are not likely to embed styles in your HTML code.

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9. fred_f,

Sep 24, 2012 8:38 AM in reply to mytaxsite.co.uk

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Thanx. I solved the problem. Check the forum thread.

Fred

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