Dreamweaver keeps crashing with nested tables...

[JC at Ultra]

I'm wondering if this is Dreamweaver or maybe my Windows install is pooched.

Whenever I have more than two nested tables, Dreamweaver FREAKS OUT.

First, I'll get ghost images of table cells at the bottom of my "Design View" pane. The only way I know where I'm really at is to look up at the Code View page. And then, if I cut or copy and paste things out of one cell and into another, I get an exception error and Dreamweaver closes.

I've tried MX and MX 2004. I've uninstalled and reinstalled and it's still a problem. Does Dreamweaver just not like nested tables or is my Windows install somehow pooching things? IMHO the errors are pretty consistant for me to think it's Windows, though. I can reproduce the problem without fail by just copying something like a textarea from one table's cell to another.

Anyone see this before?

 

[imported_haris]

I'm not sure what might be wrong with your setup though other than maybe windows.

Have you tried to edit/view the pages outside of dreamweaver? Try using notepad for a quick copy paste test and check to see if the page displays properly. Next, try opening the file using dreamweaver and see if it still freaks out.

 

[JC at Ultra]

The pages display fine. I can edit them all day long in a text editor. It's easier to manipulate in Dreamweaver.... if it doesn't crash!

Frames nested twice isn't a problem. Just when I nest three or more does it crash.

 

[hopejr]

I think it's just your windows install. I've never had that problem before. But I am running DWMX2k4 on a mac (I do know someone using it on Windows, working on the same site as me, but doesn't have a problem). BTW, we have 4 levels of nesting at one spot on the page (disgusting if you ask me, but I didn't design the template - I'd rather use CSS).

 

[stndn]

just a random shot here ...
is it possible that you have made manual change to the table using code-view, and you ended up making the tables overlap with each other?

try a new experiment:
start with a new file, create a table inside table (in design view)
save and check out if it works.
next, create another table inside it, and see if it crashes again...


hopejr: if you think 4 levels of nested table is disgusting, try 6 to 8 nested table that our "web designer" did *across the whole company's website* in my previous workplace.. the horrible part is that a few of those nested tables are empty table with a background color that is used only to make the border color of the next table inside.... yuck...

apparently, the web designer never heard of style="border: 1px solid #0000ff;" .... :roll:
</rant>

 

[hopejr]

rofl.

 

[JC at Ultra]

Nope. The code is good. All tags terminate correctly, etc.

It's done now, so I'm not going to worry about it. I wouldn't normally nest three or more tables together, but this project pretty much required it (huge form.)

It's behind me now. The form works. I will move on and pretend that it never happened.