New to DW. Can not get my design view to match what the browser is showing. Please help!

"Lindie5" <webforumsuser@macromedia.com> wrote in message
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> New to DW. Can not get my design view to match what the browser is
> showing. Please help!

Please show us a page which is giving you this problem.


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I have the same problem with any page I'm working on. So I purchased Adobe
Dreamweaver Classroom in a Book to start back with the basics. But even with
the programs predefined page layouts, my design window will only let me see the
information in rows instead of the chosen columns until I go to the browser.

"Lindie5" <webforumsuser@macromedia.com> wrote in message
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>I have the same problem with any page I'm working on. So I purchased Adobe
> Dreamweaver Classroom in a Book to start back with the basics. But even
> with
> the programs predefined page layouts, my design window will only let me
> see the
> information in rows instead of the chosen columns until I go to the
> browser.

Right. So show us one of those pages.


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Some style attributes are not displayed accurately while in design view. If
your page layout is using a style sheet to display the contents in a certain
way, then it requires a browser to render it properly.

An example of this is if you increase the space after your [LI] tags to
increase the leading, you may not see the space in design view but when you
preview it in a browser you may actually have more space between your [LI] tags
than you intended.

Given that you are designing for browsers, you should rely more on what you
see in the browser window than what you see in your editing tool.

Hope this helps.

I don't think this is accurate. While it is true that DW is NOT a browser,
and that it cannot hope to duplicate all renderings in all browsers, it is
also true that DW's design view is not a bad representation of what you
should see in any browser, PROVIDED YOUR CODE VALIDATES. Given the first
sentence in the original poster's message -

New to DW

I'm guessing that the problems would start there.

To say more, we'd need to see a page.

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"rprevost" <rprevos@frk.com> wrote in message
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> Some style attributes are not displayed accurately while in design view.
> If
> your page layout is using a style sheet to display the contents in a
> certain
> way, then it requires a browser to render it properly.
>
> An example of this is if you increase the space after your [LI] tags to
> increase the leading, you may not see the space in design view but when
> you
> preview it in a browser you may actually have more space between your [LI]
> tags
> than you intended.
>
> Given that you are designing for browsers, you should rely more on what
> you
> see in the browser window than what you see in your editing tool.
>
> Hope this helps.
>