Annoying Issue with DW

[straightryder]

Okay, I created an <ol> in DW.

 

When Live View is off :

 

The listed items appear very close together being the default. There's not margin or padding. The li rest neatly on top of each other.

 

Here's an example below:

 

1. the object, itself inaccessible to experience, to which a phenomenon is referred for the basis or cause of its sense content.

2. a thing in itself, as distinguished from a phenomenon or thing as it appears.

3. Kantianism . something that can be the object only of a purely intellectual, nonsensuous intuition.

 

 

When i click "Live View" to sample it then all of a sudden the li's appear to have jumped to like 10px padding on the bottom. When I click to preview it in a browser its giving me the results where there is no padding!! Its neat and the way it looks with Live View off.

 

1.the object, itself inaccessible to experience, to which a phenomenon is referred for the basis or cause of its sense content.

 

2. thing in itself, as distinguished from a phenomenon or thing as it appears.

 

3. Kantianism . something that can be the object only of a purely intellectual, nonsensuous intuition.

 

 

Now this is annoying cause I have to keep opening a browser in order to see if my result is what i want... because the effects in Live Preview totally effect everything else in the layout.

 

in the css I applied 0px to margin and padding but still no changes. There are no other <ul> or <ols>. I even opened a new document only doing a <ol> on the page and I ended up with the same results.. Its jumps to something like 10px of padding but there is not even any CSS applied at all.

 

 

follow? lol

[falkencreative]

I hate to say it, but the simple fact is that Dreamweaver's Live View isn't perfect. I wouldn't use it to check how your website will display in the browser -- use an actual browser. Trust the results that show when you look at the site in the browser since that is what your visitors will be using.

[newseed]

Ditch the Live View. It's really not a browser. And you don't have to keep opening your browser to view your results. Just opening once and then refresh/reload it each time after you've made an edit. Firefox is the preferred choice in testing your page(s).

[administrator]

I agree, Live View should not be used in place of the web browser, it should be used only if say you are quickly creating elements to a page, typing out text and a few other things. As you'll get to know Dreamweaver, you will discover WHEN using live view will speed up the process vs code view.

 

... Personally, I would use live view say 5% of the time. Yes, it's not that much, but it still comes in handy sometimes.

 

You should set up Dreamweaver's f12 hot-key to preview in a browser at the touch of a button. And you should also set up a secondary browser for testing in Dreamweaver ... shift+f12. Test in Firefox and IE8.

 

Stefan

[straightryder]

Thanks All for the posts. I appreciate it.

 

I do agree and read that its not wise to use Live VIew but it was driving me crazy.

 

I tend to learn the hard way:(

 

f12 = good idea. Thanks for the tip