Trouble with Dreamweaver

Dreamweaver giving me a hard time

[Tony_James]

I use Dreamweaver MX and when I move into the code section and try to select a section of code to do something with, Dreamweaver tries to make me select a huge chunk of code, it's like the mouse is slippery or something. It will move in a direction I don't want to go and select way more than I want, I can't select what I want to select. It seems to do it for some code/tag areas and not in others.
It seems to be a "feature" of the program but I don't know how to turn it off.
What am I doing wrong?
Thanks in advance.

Tony

[Holmes]

Tony,

To be charitable Dreamweaver MX isn't very much of a code editor.

Are you using MX or MX 2004? With MX you could speed it up by unchecking both refresh local file list and refresh remote file list.

Try getting the cursor at the start of what you want to highlight. Then scroll down and while holding down the shift key click at the end of what you want to highlight.

[Tony_James]

Hi, Thanks for getting back to me.
I'm using MX and I tried the "Shift while dragging" trick and it seems to make no difference.
I'll click into the page at the front of a Meta tag and as soon as I try to drag, up or down, the cursor shoots down to the bottom of the screen.

I've discovered now that because I had the mouse option selected where it looks for the next place to jump to.
I don't think they work well together.

By the way, what's the best web page editor, do you think? I'm always wanting to learn more.

[stever]

Tony,

If you are selecting chunks of code which possess tags, like divs or tables, then highlighting the tag under the filename (in the grey section looking like this: <table>) is a quick way to do it. Using keyboard shortcuts (Ctrl-X, click in code for position, Ctrl-V) in conjunction is even quicker...

[Holmes]

Tony,

Well one of the better editors IMHO is right on your Dreamweaver disk, it's called Homesite. Macromedia acquired it when they purchased Allaire.

It's not on the install program, so you have to go hunting for it on the disk. Some of us think that's deliberate because Macromedia would just as soon kill it off.

It hasn't seen many updates in four years but it still runs circles around Dreamweaver as an editor. Loads fast, very customizable with lots of macros out on the web. I know that I am 3-4X more productive in that environment.