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?
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.
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
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)
FP generally works well - provided it’s a relatively recent version, eg 2002/2003 (although of course it’s now been superceded by MS Expression Web).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.
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.
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.)
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.