design view

[ylvol]

How come my page looks different in the design view then how it looks when im viewing it on a browser?

[artheus]

The reason for this is that every different browser has some unique characteristics.. And that the developers of dreamweaver was not able to make the WYSIWYG (What you see is what you get) show the content of the page exactly as Firefox or any other web-browser would show it.. Because of that the WYSIWYG "browser", is not really a preview, it's a design view where you can change the appearance of the page content.
But I agree with you, that it is a little frustrating, that the WYSIWYG won't show the "real thing".


Cheers!

[ylvol]

thanks

[dtm32236]

It's really probably because you used the design view to make your entire site (the completely wrong way to make a website).

When dragging and dropping things in design view, Dreamweaver and all other similar applications write terrible code. Code that doesn't follow standards and is outdated. You'll never get good results unless you write the code yourself.

[artheus]

It's really probably because you used the design view to make your entire site (the completely wrong way to make a website).

When dragging and dropping things in design view, Dreamweaver and all other similar applications write terrible code. Code that doesn't follow standards and is outdated. You'll never get good results unless you write the code yourself.

Totally agree with you on that!

[ylvol]

I coded it. One day it looked fine and then when I did some find and replace thing thats when some pages started dto look wierd on design view. No biggy cause it looks fine on the browswer I just wanted to know what may have caused it.

[dtm32236]

That's strange... but it's happened to me before.

That often happens if you user include files... but if that's not the case, I'm not really sure. Most of the time, when I've seen something like that - closing and re-opening the file would fix it.

Who knows though...