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Does Dreamweaver add enctype="text/plain" to forms automatically?

I have some forms that post to a CGI script. I set them up and they work perfectly on all browsers. Then I leave them alone. A few days later, after designers have updated the page, the forms no longer work and a mysterious enctype="text/plain" has been added to the form tag. I didn't put it there, and the designers didn't put it t...

How to utilize javascript on Adobe Dreamweaver CS4

Hello. I am working on my personal website and am learning javascript (started yesterday) - My computer is a Mac and I couldn't find on the Internet how to utilize javascript on Adobe Dreamweaver CS4. Specifically, I am trying to use a photo slideshow called Galleria. On PCs, they say to drop the .js file into one of Dreamweaver's folde...

dreamweaver and chrome- trying to reload style sheet

figured id ask this here since the communitys always been super helpfull. anyways- using a template in dreamweaver and chrome for preview- every time i refresh the page in chrome in go back to dreamweaver it gives me the error that the style sheet has been changed outside of DW(CS4). now it never changes anything- but you could imagine ...

Image Swap wont work in Firefox But works in IE

Hi, I'm a bit of a novice when it comes to coding but have been in the process of setting up my own webpage via Dreamweaver as the WYSIWYG approach waorks for me. The problem is I am trying to implement a disjointed image swap on click event.. It works fone for me on IE but not on firefox, and have been tearing my hair out trying to fi...

inserting a Navigation Bar into Dreamweaver CS4

I am working on a site where there is already an existing text-only navigation bar but I wanted to create buttons to give it more interest. So I created some in Adobe Illustrator CS2 and saved them as jpg. For each button I created an up and down state. I thought it'd be easy enough to just insert them into Dreamweaver but that hasn't be...

Is _mmServerScripts necessary?

When developing sites using Dreamweaver, it creates a _mmServerScripts directory on the root of your site. We've been reading that this folder contains SQL statements that are vulnerable to attack. We would like to avoid this all together, if possible. Is this folder even necessary? Can you do anything to Dreamweaver to tell it to never ...

Reformatting HTML

I'm not a developer so I don't know the right term for this. I am dealing with code done by other and it is coded in a continuous way. Meaning not like this, <body> <ul> <li>List 1</li> <li>List 2</li> <li>List 3</li> </ul> </body> but instead, like this, continuously: <body><ul><li>List 1</li><li>List 2</l...

Programming a Dreamweaver extension

Hi. I'm writing a Dreamweaver CS4/CS5 extension to allow users to insert HTML5 video tags but with a dialog box that allows them to customize it. It also inserts a JavaScript library in the head of the page along with a CSS stylesheet link. Here's what the user needs to be able to do: See a dialog box that allows the setting of any nu...

Live View in Dreamweaver shows login form instead of page content

I'm editing a php page in Dreamweaver CS4 (or CS5 for that matter) and want to view it in either Live View or Live Code. Because the page checks to be sure that the current user has been authenticated, Live Code displays the code from the Login page instead of the code from the page I'm really editing. Is there some way of "fooling" ...

How can I revert back the native javascript code coloring in Dreamweaver CS4?

I recently installed Adobe Dreamweaver CS4. When I tried to code in javascript, all my code is written in pink font. I checked my Preferences > Code Coloring then choose Javascript. I was surprised to see that it only recognizes 3 types of code: jQuery Identifiers, jQuery Keywords and Methods, jQuery objects. I do code jQuery, but I wan...

Must I escape forward slashes in Javascript?

In Dreamweaver the characters between a pair of forward slashes in a very simple calculation, like this: var foo = Math.round(bar/3)+Math.floor(bar/2); is read as a regex (at least by the syntax coloring). Will this break my code? Do I need to escape it somehow? ...

iam not able to connect dreamweaver with tomcat .

i manually deployed it. then when i run it it cannot connect to the local host iam using JSP server technology and i have to make a website for my project.without dreamweaver i cannot do it.plz help ...

How to use jQuery in an extension

Hi. This is a tough nut to crack: Is it possible to use jQuery in a Dreamweaver extension? These extensions use the following syntax to reference the extension and the actual document which the extension will modify: document.forms[0].elements[1] // refers to the extension file's form element var dom = dw.getDocumentDOM(); // gets t...

php and database question

I've been working on a website on my own xampp server on my computer with my own database and everything and so far it's been pretty smooth, surprisingly. Now I want to upload it to a host, and I found a free web host and I was able to upload the site through dreamweaver/ftp. I exported my DB into an SQL query and than ran that query o...

Uploading a site with Dreamweaver

I'm using Dreamweaver to publish my website to the web server. I have a php file called init.php that I include in my pages containing information relevant to connecting to my DB. The information is different depending on whether I'm running on my local test server or on the remote server. I would like to have a remote init.php and a ...

How do the the "Pros" design and code web sites?

How do most modern "pro" web designers go about starting/designing/coding a site? I realize that techniques will range and differ drastically, I'm just looking for some solid, relied-on tactics or approaches. For example, "I know most draw out a rough design with the client, then go into photoshop and create it, then slice it up, then ...

What PHP/JS specific features does Dreamweaver CS5 have?

I'm debating on whether to get Dreamweaver CS5 or Zend Studio for my web developing. I was happy with Dreamweaver until I tried Zend Studio (and Netbeans for that matter) and realized what kind of great code formatting and completion I was missing out on. My question is, does the newest version of Dreamweaver support: PHP / JS formatt...

How can I use TortoiseSVN in Dreamweaver CS4

I recently learned how to use TortoiseSVN for my version control needs. Then I found out that I still need to configure the Subversion settings of DWCS4. But then, it is looking for a server, which I don't have for TortoiseSVN because I store my files locally. How can I do this in DWCS4? I tried right-clicking the file in DWCS4 local vie...

How do i store a swf file name and location in mySQL database?

Hi, Problem, I cannot pre-view a flash movie in a php.page. Question, How, where, do i store a swf file name and location in mySQL database and then use this data to call it in the application? Thanks for reading Sabby77 ...

HTML editor - A free alternative to DreamWeaver

Hello, In the past, I used to work with DW4 and liked the way it allows you to visually write HTML pages. Can anyone suggest a free alternative for Windows? ...