INTELLISENCE NOT WORKING FOR CSS IN EXPRESSION WEB 3

Question

am designing a layout for my page useing css thats when i realize the intellisence not working!

any help!

Answer 1

"IntelliSENCE" won't work; no such thing! ;-)

IntelliSENSE should work, but you first should make sure it's active- Intellisense is provided for various aspects of coding: HTML, CSS, ASP .Net,  PHP to name a few.

With your web open, go to Tools, Page Editor Options, click the Intelli-Sense tab, then tick the check box for "CSS Statement Completion" (since you seem to be asking about CSS Intellisense specifically) but make sure the check boxes are all ticked to enable Intellisense for the other coding.

If this is checked and Intellisense is still not working as expected,  then please described in more detail what you're expecting, and what is not occurring.

 

Note: IntelliSense works in CODE view only.

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Andrew M

Answer 2

I tried all of that, but nothing not working, intellisence works fine on a html page but on a .css page nothing happing i have to manualy write everything from scratch!

 

here is an example

/* layout */

body {

margin: 0 auto;

padding: 0;

}

#container {

margin: 0 auto;

padding: 0;

width: 800px;

}

#master-header {

margin: 0;

Padding: 0;

}

#menuebar {

margin: 0;

padding: 0;

}

#footer {

margin: 0;

padding: 0;

}

#content {

margin: 0;

padding: 0;

 

}

Answer 3

Can you provide more detail because it works for me. I just double checked using File > New > CSS page

typed .test {

cursor moved to the next line with a dropdown list of available properties followed by a } on the following line.

New Intellisense properties only appear when I finish the value using a ; then hit the enter key.

If that isn't working for you maybe you could either give a step by step or create a screen recording to see what it is you are doing. EW 3 comes with Expression Encoder so you can record a short movie or get the free Jing tool from TechSmith and post the resulting video with a link here.

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MS MVP Expression Tutorials & Help http://by-expression.com

Answer 4

i have recorded the screen shot where do i upload the video so i can get u the link? 

i guess thats a dumb question

Answer 5

here is the link to the vedio

 

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uS7NPxJDH44

Answer 6

Your video is too small/blurry for me to see, for sure, but it looks like you are typing

 

test {

...

Is that correct?  If so, that explains it.  "test" isn't an element, a class, or an id. There is no CSS for it.

Try "div" or ".test" or "#test".

Answer 7

yes thats what i had type, i correct it and its the same thing am going to reinstall it and see what happen.............

thanks very much for the support!

Answer 8

I GOT IT TO WORK...........I REINSTALL IT, IT TOOK SOME TIME AND TRY INSTALLING IT OVER BUT I GOT IT INSTALL ON MY WINDOWS 7 IN DEBUG MODE AND EVERYTHING IS WORKING GREAT NOW......AM NOT SURE IF I SHOULD INSTALL SP2 THOUGH

Answer 9

Maragh,

Please don't mark your own post as an answer when you don't say what you did. I suspect that you are saying that you reinstalled EW 3 and now it is working correctly. If that is the case please edit your post so it clearer and not all caps which is very difficult to read. Then leaving it marked as answered would be more correct.

You should install SP 2 because it fixes a couple of very serious bugs where files renamed in Expression Web 3 become corrupt (pdfs in particular) and php code disappears completely.

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MS MVP Expression Tutorials & Help http://by-expression.com