I have a problem with the HTML editor where I type some text into the body of the page in Visual mode and when I switch to preview mode, that text is multiplied itself threefold, so there are duplicate paragraphs, horizontal lines, etc.

I have studied the code, and can't find why this is happening? Anyone else have this problem???

Can't get rid of this BUG!

J

If your switching between visual mode and HTML mode forget having a page that will render correctly. The two don't get along at all. Stay with either all visual or all HTML.

The thing is, this problem only started in the last two months, since I downloaded the latest version.

Before that, it was no problem. I can understand there being different approaches btwn html and visual, but when the html is correct and then saved, why does switching to visual (making no change) and then back to html generate all this duplicate data? It's usually just the most recent entry or two to the document that repeats.

Stultifying.

J

I would agree that the older versions were more stable when switching between modes but I don't think it's worth CC's time to make the HTML Edtor WYSIWYG work when switching modes because all the time and effort that has been put into VSD would be for not. I can't answer your question exactly why it's this way but I would suspect that making the Editor CSS3 and HTML5 compliant is the reason.

I am having this same problem. I have been a long time user of this piece of software and exactly for the ability to easily switch between the two. I do not want a VSD only and I do not want to do all the code by hand either. A mix between the two is fastest for me. To me this was the software's sweet spot and I am very, very, disappointed. I suppose I may need to somehow reinstall an earlier build and keep my eye open for something else for the future.

Jennifer, If your making sites with the visual tab of the html editor you might as well take a look at VSD. The markup that the html editor creates in visual mode is pretty much the same as VSD. I use the html editor and VSD pretty much the same amount now even with the newer update to the editor. I don't use the visual tab as I'm teaching my self HTML5 and CSS3 with the editor and have one website dedicated to that research. You really can't beat the speed to which you can get a website up and running with VSD.

Not to mention that VSD does allow you to input HTML code as well as other scripting codes, you just don't edit the main site code is all, but there's no need to. Truly if you're wanting Visual building, then VSD is what you should be using, the HTML Editor warns you right off the bat that you should not be switching between the 2 modes of visual and code, so complaining about it is really not worth the effort. There are articles written here on CC's site about it, a kazillion posts warning people not to do it etc. so really, just decide not to do it and use one or the other as it's intended for. It may have been capable of doing things before, but the visual setup is not setup for HTML5 and CSS3 as Eric mentioned, and I'm sure that's why it's messing up for you now.

Don't know what version you upgraded from, but it's been messing up for quite a few versions now when swapping the 2 tabs, so I'm assuming you upgraded from a much older version than the last one or 2. It's been a problem for quite a few versions already, and warnings have been posted for at least the last 2 years that I've been watching.

Check out VSD, give it a trial run and see what it's like. You'll find it's much more capable, has many more features and is more robust of a builder for visual setups than the HTML Editor ever will be.
You can still use the HTML Editor to do up scripts, tables, menus in the CSS Menu maker, and so on to input into VSD so it's not a wasted effort there either. You upgraded your HTML Editor, now upgrade your procedures for building and you'll have a great combo

I'd have to agree with Eric, it wasn't as much of a problem before, but the problem was there... Scott has provided the "technical" explanation as to why switching back-and-forth does not work well, but I can't put my finger on it (nor can I recall it well enough to be of much help).

As JoAnn suggests in another thread, if you are wanting a Visual Editor, VSD might be the better option for you. It has been developing into a very capable/powerful editor, AND you still have the ability to insert HTML Code into it for the "specialty" touch. Once you publish you 'could' tweak on the HTML Code in the file that VSD produces (although doing so will make future updates a bit tougher).