Highly annoying error in Dreamweaver MX

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I'm at the point of literally tearing my hair out with this - a Google search has come up with nothing specifically relevant to me seemingly, so i'm at a loss.

Basically every time i change the code in the main template of this page and then go to save it, a message pops up at the same time as the "Update the following pages?" message. The other one, the cause of my extreme frustration, says "Line 7 Col 62 : Closed a <meta> tag that was left unclosed".

Have Googled the exact same line and not many results come up, of those that do some are unanswered.

Used to only get it when opening a new document based on the template in the link above, but now get it when saving the template!

Someone/s please help me before i make myself bald! :grumpy::nervous:

P.S. Please don't suggest getting a new WYSIWYG editor. Its taken me from 2001 or so till just last year to upgrade from Frontpage Express to Dreamweaver MX 6.0.
 
Sod Dreamweaver mate, crack open Notepad and get your hands dirty. The only way to do it 👍
 
Too time consuming for me, i want to be able to see what i'm updating as i'm doing it. Only do it for a hobby, nothing serious. :)
 
You only have one meta tag in the source:

<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8" />

Is this where the problem is originating from?
 
This is with amateurish knowledge so bear with me :lol:

But try adding a </meta> tag at the bottom to see if that does anything (98% chance of not, but worth a shot I guess..

I say this because after viewing the page source and searching "meta", only one result came back as "<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8" />" but no closing </meta> tag was found.

:nervous: Sorry if i'm just making a fool of myself..
 
Yeah, line 7 is right under <meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8" /> but thats where the opening tag for editable regions is.

I've tried adding a closing meta tag (using my amauerish knowledge ;)) and then apon saving it said it closed/removed an unnecessary <meta/> tag.

But yeah, thats about the only meta tag in the document. Two (?) lines above i read somewhere someone suggesting to remove the !DOCTYPE tag to fix it, but that didn't work either. In fact i removed all the below and it still came up with the error!
<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd">
<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml">
<head>
<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8" />
 
Maybe i'll just have to put up with it. The templated files all save perfectly fine, its just annoying getting the bloody great big pop up error message every time i save the main doc.

Bah, can't baleete this double post.
 
I'd try removing the meta tag altogether and redoing it, but i'm betting you did that already huh? :indiff:
 
Noticed you want help with your drop down menu? I would be happy to help.

Would be using a script from Dynamic Drive though, so you would have to manually put it into your Dreamweaver site template.
 
Not really sure how i'd re-do the meta tag, came with the page i think.

My drop down links were pretty much the same as the ones on your site (except blue), but removed them as they didn't show up properly in the design view of Dreamweaver (could still add links etc by code and worked properly when online - but yeah).

Unfortunately due to other error messages i ended up deleting that page too, so can't show you - but hopefully its still in my e-mail account somewhere as an attachment.
 
The more complex the functionality, the less chance it will render correctly in any kind of WYSIWYG editor. Only testing deployed code will show you what is really going on. I gave up on Dreamweaver and went code only years ago, but then, I do this 8-5:30 five days a week so you would expect that.
 
Yeah thats what i thought may be happening. :( I can code my forums alright (phpBB), but websites and html codes etc just get the better of me - can't really be bothered learning it all as it advances so quickly.
 
Just a wild stab in the dark, but why don't you use a custom Wordpress installation? Modify it to your hearts content and inherently avoid all the pitfalls of having to use something like Frontpage or Dreamweaver?
 
I don't mean to add another post to do with notepad to your thread, but Notepad++ is brilliant if you ever wanted to start coding without using Dreamweaver. It's similar to the Dreamweaver code editor just without the preview.

I have used Dreamweaver before and it leaves dirty bits of code behind usually when you start deleting or shifting stuff around. If you ever did want to start learning it properly and code without Dreamweaver you will never look back again. 👍
 

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