# Live Preview doesn't work **URL:** \ **Category:** RapidWeaver Classic\ **Created:** [May 20, 2020, 12:23pm UTC](https://forums.realmacsoftware.com/t/live-preview-doesnt-work/32989 "2020-05-20T12:23:44Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 10\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![wma](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/e36b37/32.png) [@wma](https://forums.realmacsoftware.com/u/wma)\ **Post date:** [May 20, 2020, 12:23pm UTC](https://forums.realmacsoftware.com/t/live-preview-doesnt-work/32989/1 "2020-05-20T12:23:44Z")
I’ve been using RW8 for about a year. In that time, the live preview feature has never worked for me (I didn’t even know that it _was_ a feature until I stumbled across a mention of it somewhere). Every time I wish to preview a change that I’ve made, I have to CMD-P and wait for the page to load up in Chrome. Am I missing a setting somewhere that would get this working, or is this a possible bug? I’m currently using RW8.6 and Stacks 4.04 on Mac OS 10.15.4. Chrome is up-to-date as well. I’m using Source framework at the moment, but have also used Foundry without any change. ---
**Author:** ![danhmill](https://dub1.discourse-cdn.com/flex005/user_avatar/forums.realmacsoftware.com/danhmill/32/16705_2.png) [@danhmill](https://forums.realmacsoftware.com/u/danhmill)\ **Post date:** [May 20, 2020, 2:19pm UTC](https://forums.realmacsoftware.com/t/live-preview-doesnt-work/32989/2 "2020-05-20T14:19:18Z")
If I understand correctly your projects will successfully preview in a browser (chrome in your case). What happens when you click on the live preview in RW? Is it just a blank/white screen? Do you get a spinning wheel etc? ---
**Author:** ![wma](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/e36b37/32.png) [@wma](https://forums.realmacsoftware.com/u/wma)\ **Post date:** [May 20, 2020, 2:35pm UTC](https://forums.realmacsoftware.com/t/live-preview-doesnt-work/32989/3 "2020-05-20T14:35:03Z")
By “click on the live preview in RW”, do you mean Preview Mode (the eyeball in the toolbar), using Chrome’s in-app page viewer? If so, that works fine. To clarify: Changes that I make in RW aren’t reflected in real-time when previewing in Chrome. I have to CMD-P to push out the changes. It doesn’t work as I believe it should (see [https://help.realmacsoftware.com/en/articles/1905324-live-preview](https://help.realmacsoftware.com/en/articles/1905324-live-preview) for what I’m expecting to happen). ---
**Author:** ![danhmill](https://dub1.discourse-cdn.com/flex005/user_avatar/forums.realmacsoftware.com/danhmill/32/16705_2.png) [@danhmill](https://forums.realmacsoftware.com/u/danhmill)\ **Post date:** [May 20, 2020, 2:47pm UTC](https://forums.realmacsoftware.com/t/live-preview-doesnt-work/32989/4 "2020-05-20T14:47:53Z")
Got it. I misunderstood and thought you meant that the internal RW preview (the eyeball as you point out) was not working. I don’t have anything to offer regarding possible browser based live preview issues other than to wonder if your project perhaps requires php? Doubtful as it seems your initial preview is working just fine it’s the updates. I’ll chime in if I think of anything. Best of luck. ---
**Author:** ![danhmill](https://dub1.discourse-cdn.com/flex005/user_avatar/forums.realmacsoftware.com/danhmill/32/16705_2.png) [@danhmill](https://forums.realmacsoftware.com/u/danhmill)\ **Post date:** [May 20, 2020, 2:50pm UTC](https://forums.realmacsoftware.com/t/live-preview-doesnt-work/32989/5 "2020-05-20T14:50:41Z")
Curious if you’ve tried this functionality using safari as your browser instead? ---
**Author:** ![robbeattie](https://dub1.discourse-cdn.com/flex005/user_avatar/forums.realmacsoftware.com/robbeattie/32/78_2.png) [@robbeattie](https://forums.realmacsoftware.com/u/robbeattie)\ **Post date:** [May 20, 2020, 2:51pm UTC](https://forums.realmacsoftware.com/t/live-preview-doesnt-work/32989/6 "2020-05-20T14:51:30Z")
I don’t think that’s what RealMac means by ‘live preview’. I _think_ what they’re talking about is the ability to preview your entire website in a browser, navigating round the different pages, etc. and _not_ being able to somehow ‘push’ edits made in RW to your local browser preview. Rob ---
**Author:** ![teefers](https://dub1.discourse-cdn.com/flex005/user_avatar/forums.realmacsoftware.com/teefers/32/8173_2.png) [@teefers](https://forums.realmacsoftware.com/u/teefers)\ **Post date:** [May 20, 2020, 3:02pm UTC](https://forums.realmacsoftware.com/t/live-preview-doesnt-work/32989/7 "2020-05-20T15:02:33Z")
Did you try refreshing the browser? That’s always worked for me. ---
**Author:** ![wma](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/e36b37/32.png) [@wma](https://forums.realmacsoftware.com/u/wma)\ **Post date:** [May 20, 2020, 3:48pm UTC](https://forums.realmacsoftware.com/t/live-preview-doesnt-work/32989/8 "2020-05-20T15:48:48Z")
Yes, refreshing the browser works. But based on RW’s documentation, it sure sounds like the browser should refresh itself in real-time. This screenshot is from [https://help.realmacsoftware.com/en/articles/1905324-live-preview](https://help.realmacsoftware.com/en/articles/1905324-live-preview) ![screen%20shot_2020520_114752_561](https://europe1.discourse-cdn.com/flex005/uploads/realmacsoftware1/original/3X/7/7/77fc4de1f05f2b94ee69c4cbc8a724201be6a0c9.png) ---
**Author:** ![wma](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/e36b37/32.png) [@wma](https://forums.realmacsoftware.com/u/wma)\ **Post date:** [May 20, 2020, 3:50pm UTC](https://forums.realmacsoftware.com/t/live-preview-doesnt-work/32989/9 "2020-05-20T15:50:42Z")
I guess not. Their documentation at [https://help.realmacsoftware.com/en/articles/1905324-live-previewdefinitely](https://help.realmacsoftware.com/en/articles/1905324-live-previewdefinitely) makes it sound like it **does** work that way though (unless I’m misinterpreting it!). ---
**Author:** ![system](https://dub1.discourse-cdn.com/flex005/user_avatar/forums.realmacsoftware.com/system/32/25301_2.png) [@system](https://forums.realmacsoftware.com/u/system)\ **Post date:** [June 20, 2020, 1:50am UTC](https://forums.realmacsoftware.com/t/live-preview-doesnt-work/32989/10 "2020-06-20T01:50:46Z")
This topic was automatically closed 30 days after the last reply. New replies are no longer allowed.