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From: GoldenHistoryBooks on 20 Jun 2008 13:20 First I'd like to make a general comment about documentaiton.... it's woefully inadequate in ALL areas that I've tried working in. Fix the docs and you'll eliminate a lot of need for help. For instance, I'm trying to put a server-side include in. Should be simple right? The documentation tells me how Dearmweaver allows me to see the include in the design and preview modes. Well, it doesn't work. And there's NOTHING to tell me what to try. I've put the include in the body, so why am I getting a yellow tag at the top of the page that is a </head> ? Why doesn't it display? What is the code supposed to look like? What steps do I take to try and fix this? Is it even possible to have an include that has a table and Spry menu? Will the drop down portion of the menu items display properly in such a case? Are there special specifications for how I should set up the include page to make this work? I've gotten no response from Adobe or the forum on how to accomplish what I want via frames, so I've abandoned that idea all together (again, no documentation to help me figure it out) and am working with tables instead. If, in order to make this work, I have to put my menu in the same table as the rest of my content (totally inefficient and not desired), someone please tell me now so I can actually get something done! Thank you.
From: darrel on 20 Jun 2008 13:25 > First I'd like to make a general comment about documentaiton.... it's > woefully > inadequate in ALL areas that I've tried working in. Fix the docs and > you'll We are users of DW...not employess of Adobe. Not that we don't agree, just that we can't actually do anything about it. > tell me what to try. I've put the include in the body, so why am I getting > a > yellow tag at the top of the page that is a </head> ? Why doesn't it > display? Show us the code. > someone please tell > me now so I can actually get something done! You have to learn HTML, CSS, and the rest for this to all make sense. It'll always be a struggle if you don't take the time to learn that first. -Darrel
From: Alan on 20 Jun 2008 13:46 > I've put the include in the body, so why am I getting a > yellow tag at the top of the page that is a </head> As a guess, the file you are Including is a complete html document with it's own head and body tags. dw sees multiple head or body tags in one document, the design view goes blank because it can't make sense of the bad html syntax. Fix: open the include and select the <body> tag and strip all code there to top of file (if there are any js functions, they need to go into the head of the main document) Then strip </body></html> from end of file. You mention spry- you will have to relocate a bunch of stuff to the head of every file that will use this include. Or do linked .js files in them -- Alan Adobe Community Expert, dreamweaver http://www.adobe.com/communities/experts/
From: GoldenHistoryBooks on 22 Jun 2008 10:48 Thank you for your response but I'm still confused. :confused; The first part of your response is articulate and I've tried it but the last part I think must be the key and you've provided no detail. Could you please? You said... You mention spry- you will have to relocate a bunch of stuff to the head of every file that will use this include. Or do linked .js files in them What "bunch of stuff" do I need at the head of every file? How do I link a ..js file? Could you please provide a sample of the correct code? Thank you.
From: Alan on 22 Jun 2008 11:25
> What "bunch of stuff" do I need at the head of every file? How do I link a > .js file? take a blank file. Add a "simple" spry object. Look at what was added to the code. Anything added in the head or to the body tag is what needs to be added to the real page, because a proper SSI include does not contain code that goes in both the body section and the head section. You could make the head section stuff another separate ssi this tutorial mentions using spry in an ssi in one of the comment- http://livedocs.adobe.com/en_US/Spry/1.4/WS82BCC939-BCFC-4729-80FD-7CB85512F 814.html This is a linked .js file code: <script src="SpryAssets/SpryMenuBar.js" type="text/javascript"></script> there are also linked .css files for the spry object -- Alan Adobe Community Expert, dreamweaver http://www.adobe.com/communities/experts/ |