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Hi

I sometimes use Microsoft Frontpage to edit my pages and one thing is driving me crazy all the time:

When I hit save - all my “<” and “>” are changed to “<” and “>”

I have looked thru the settings in Frontpage - but cant find where to turn that off (if possible)

Anyone know if its possible to turn of in Frontpage version 2003 ?

Best regards,

Henrik

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I have never, ever seen mine do that, there is 1 thing you can try
Theres a word at the bottom bar saying Default, Double click it
then from the drop list choose complete, thats the only thing i change

You do know asking something like this will open a can of worms, you gonna
get so many recommendations about not using FP and what you should try :roll:

I do, each time i mention frontpage pmsl…

I have a feeling it might be the format your saving it as, what are you saving as?

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Hi Simon

Thanks for your reply.

I will try that when I get home from from work later today.

I know bringing Frontpage up in the Forum will trick a lot of recommendations to other webdeveloping softwares (like Notepad :D)

I save alle my pages in PHP format.

Best regards,

Henrik

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How do you save as PHP in frontpage?

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I think i found it, save as all files then add .php the the file name such as in notepad :slight_smile:
Well i just tested this way and no funny things showed up :?

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okay - looks like your settings are different to mine.

Look forward to test it in the afternoon.

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Hi again

I tried changing my settings - but no good.

Frontpage still converts < and >

Best regards,

Henrik

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Thats really strange, hopefully someone else can shed some light on this, but you know what the
outcome will be dont you lol

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Has it ever worked properly? Maybe it’s a language and/or character set problem - can you try setting language etc to US settings for example to see if this makes any difference?

There is quite a helpful Yahoo group for FP ([email protected]) but you’ll probably need to register first to ask a question there.

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Hi prodata

No - it has always been like that - but now I got too tired of it.

Im not sure I can change language - in that case - shouldn

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The only way I’ve ever been able to be SURE they don’t change is to click on the “html” tab and then check the html coding that you or Front Page created, before you save the file. Actually I’ve found it easier, if I want to use Front Page, to do all the work on that screen, then switch to the “normal” or “preview” views only to see if it looks as I want.

Which, I suppose, means I’d be a lot better off using notepad instead. 8O

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Hi

Thanks for your reply.

I like Frontpage because of the colors and the line numbers and the preview options.

I bet there are a bunch of other good WYSIWYG editors outthere - but Frontpage came with my Office Package and I got use to it before I learned all the html codes.

But I might consider changing to another software that can do the same as FP (ie. show line numbers and colors of the codes)

Best regards,

Henrik

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FP generally works well - provided it’s a relatively recent version, eg 2002/2003 (although of course it’s now been superceded by MS Expression Web). There’s something very specific wrong either with your FP configuration or the way that you’re using it (I’m sure this isn’t the case but you’re not for example trying to enter HTML code into the design window??). I can understand your frustration but I can’t help feeling that there’s a simple cause if only it were possible to identify it. I’ve used FP for years - though now switched to Expression - and I’ve never seen this issue that’s giving you problems.

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Hi Prodata

Thanks for your reply.

Im not entering HTML code to the design window - I always type in HTML code in code window and then check the result in the design window.
Version is Frontpage 2003.

I think to its a missing checkmark or something like that - I have been thru all the settings and cant figure out what to do.

Hope someone know what the problem can be. I know others have the same problems - I have often seen members from here having problems with the tags like:

%daysTmax<-15C%

Where the < has been changed and the tag no longer works.

Best regards,

Henrik

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Ah, perhaps I’ve misunderstood. I thought you were complaining that all the main html markup tags like

were being rendered as <p> (for example) in the html code.

But maybe you have a simpler and much more specific problem in that you can’t include individual characters like < and > in the text of the content? If so, then you need a way of escaping the literal characters. What happens if you just enclose the string in quotes, eg “%daysTmax<-15C%” or maybe " %daysTmax<-15C% "? (I’m not sure this will work and there’s almost certainly a better, ‘official’ way of doing this.)

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Hi

Thank you very much for helping me.

An example of what FP does when I save the .php doc:

This line:

<title><?php echo $TITLE; ?> <?php echo $temp; ?>
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I’ll see if I can think of a more elegant way of doing it but one partial solution would be to do a search and replace operation in code view (Ctrl H) and replace eg all instances of < by <. You would need to be careful to do this as a last step in the page preparation just in case FP changed it back again, though I suspect that this wouldn’t happen. It should even be possible to write a simple script to do this, but that’s probably overkill.

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When you saving the file are you selecting All Files from the drop list at the bottom?

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Hi again

I think making a script is overkill and a cut and replace I sometimes do.

Hmm guess its the only way - I was hoping it was some setting in FP that caused the problem.

Best regards,

Henrik

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Hi Simon

I just open the file and after editing the think I want I click CTRL+S or hit the little diskette in the icons.

Best regards,

Henrik