[thelist] Dreamweaver 4 - Can't Edit in Code View

Thu Jan 25 10:04:31 CST 2001

Hi again, John,

I finally uninstalled and then re-installed Dreamweaver, and with the new install, the problem is gone.  Might have had something to do with a command or object I installed from the Dreamweaver Exchange...althought I'm not sure how it could have interfered with something so fundamental to the program.

In any case, thanks so much for your help!

Mark

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> At 4:20 PM 1/22/1, Mark Gregor wrote:
> > Yep, as far as I can tell, whenever I'm in the HTML Inspector, I can't
> > copy and paste reliably within that window.  If I have something already
> > in the clipboard, it will paste into the document, but it pastes as if
> > I was pasting *into the visual editor*, not the code inspector.  As
> > an example, if I have the text ASDF ASDF in my clipboard and I enter
> > the code inspector (via F10) and try to paste it above the <head> tag,
> > it pastes it into the body area.
> 
> Sorry, Mark, I'm still not sure I'm unambiguously visualizing what you're
> seeing there.
> 
> That "pastes into the visual editor" phrase makes me wonder whether you
> have (a) the main window set to only Design View (ie, no split-pane); and
> (b) are pasting into the BODY in the HTML Inspector. These windows are
> synched together when pasting, and when you paste into one you'll see the
> change in both. This phrase makes me wonder whether you're seeing the
> normal and expected thing.
> 
> Then again, if you have the split-pane view open, pasting into the Code
> View will only refresh the Design View when you give focus back to the
> Design View, or when you click the "Refresh" button in the Property
> Inspector. With this split-pane viewing, then calling up that additional
> representation in the HTML Inspector and pasting into that will 
> inherit the
> deferred rendering of the split pane view itself.
> 
> (Sidenote: In DW4 I usually keep split-pane view, and have set my HTML
> Inspector to cover the entire screen. This way I can always look at both
> markup and rendering, but can get a full-screen markup view at 
> the touch of
> a key.)
> 
> 
> Then again, if pasting, there are "what's on the clipboard" things to
> consider... if we've got tags on the clipboard then that's different than
> having untagged text there. This may be a key part of the problem.
> 
> Then again, if I paste the literal "ASDF ASDF" above my HTML block, then
> that invalidates the entire document... it's no longer HTML. But I can't
> get from there to seeing it appear somewhere in the BODY, makes me wonder
> if there's some focus involved...?
> 
> 
> Sorry I'm washing out here... can't quite find common ground yet...?
> 
> jd
> 
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