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HTML Treehouse Club: HTML Publish a Story Comments and Doctype

Posted by Elliott Merck
Elliott Merck
Courses Plus Student 773 Points

Despite making changes to the code via the story, the original story always pops up when i hit the eye button

How do i fix this

Jake Lundberg
Jake Lundberg
13,965 Points

This might be a silly question, but are you saving your changes? If so, are you saving those changes in the correct file?

6 Answers

kinghebes
kinghebes
1,457 Points
kinghebes
kinghebes
1,457 Points

I'm using safari and the same thing is happening to me. I am saving and nothing is updating when I use the Eye for preview.

Edit: Well I've discovered if you refresh the preview page that is generated, it will then update and display your changes.

Emily Dixon
Emily Dixon
3,855 Points

I'm using Chrome with the same problem, but your fix worked for me. If I refresh the preview page, it will display any changes.

Jover M.
Jover M.
1,175 Points

Yes, on Google Chrome you pressing the refresh button takes care of the problem. Why? I don't know.

Bradley Gibson
PLUS
Bradley Gibson
Courses Plus Student 1,650 Points
Bradley Gibson
Bradley Gibson
Courses Plus Student 1,650 Points

If refreshing doesn't work then try clicking 'file' then click 'download work space'. Once you have done this it will show your html file in a window. Double click on your html file and select a browser to open this file. I chose IE and it seemed to work for me! Happy coding :)

Bradley Gibson
Bradley Gibson
Courses Plus Student 1,650 Points

P.S ensure that you have saved any changes.

Nicholas Gwin
Nicholas Gwin
1,044 Points

This one worked the best for my google chrome! Much obliged and happy coding!

bothxp
bothxp
16,510 Points
bothxp
bothxp
16,510 Points

As Jake says, make sure that your files are saved after you have made changes. Then after that if your changes are still not appearing then it may be an issue to do with your web browser caching the older version of the page.

So it might be worth closing down the workspace or even your entire browser and then reopen them.

Elliott Merck
Elliott Merck
Courses Plus Student 773 Points

so I closed down everything and restarted the course track today. My changes are saved in the workspace from the previous day but I still run into the same problem with the previous story showing up when i hit the eye button.

Is there something in the Google Chrome setting i need to change?

Marselle Bredemeyer
Marselle Bredemeyer
1,619 Points
Marselle Bredemeyer
Marselle Bredemeyer
1,619 Points

I'm having the same issue, too, and using Google Chrome!

Richard Moore
Richard Moore
1,569 Points
Richard Moore
Richard Moore
1,569 Points

Same issue on firefox, refreshing the page resolved the issue.

Chris Clark
Chris Clark
1,450 Points
Chris Clark
Chris Clark
1,450 Points

Elliott, I had same issue while using Google Chrome. I tested the Workspace using Safari, and I now see my changes in the workspace reflected in the Preview. I suspect there is a Chrome issue.