<SPAN> Tag

[Ellen Cataldo]

I'm editing a Web page that we created a year or more ago
and I go to the bottom of the page where the "Last
Updated" information can be found. It currently
reads "Wednesday, March 22, 2000" and I want to change it
into "Thursday, July 31, 2003." The HTML tag looks like
this:
<p align="center"><em><small><small>Last Updated:
Wednesday, March 22, 2000 (llw)
</small></small></em></p>

Using FrontPage2000, in Normal view, I would position my
cursor between the "e" and the "s" in the
word, "Wednesday" and then backspace to delete the "Wedne"
and then type "Thur."

When I do this, using FrontPage2002, the word Thursday is
underlined in red indicating a spelling error. When I
look at the HTML code it now includes a SPAN tag:
<p align="center"><em><small><small>Last Updated: <span
lang="en-us">Thur</span>sday, March 22, 2000 (llw)
</small></small></em></p>

Why is it doing this?

 

[Jim Buyens]

-----Original Message-----

I'm editing a Web page that we created a year or more ago
and I go to the bottom of the page where the "Last
Updated" information can be found. It currently
reads "Wednesday, March 22, 2000" and I want to change it
into "Thursday, July 31, 2003." The HTML tag looks like
this:
<p align="center"><em><small><small>Last Updated:
Wednesday, March 22, 2000 (llw)
</small></small></em></p>

Using FrontPage2000, in Normal view, I would position my
cursor between the "e" and the "s" in the
word, "Wednesday" and then backspace to delete

the "Wedne" and then type "Thur."

When I do this, using FrontPage2002, the word Thursday is
underlined in red indicating a spelling error. When I
look at the HTML code it now includes a SPAN tag:
<p align="center"><em><small><small>Last Updated: <span
lang="en-us">Thur</span>sday, March 22, 2000 (llw)
</small></small></em></p>

Why is it doing this?

This feature is a bit quirky but here are two things to
try.

o Choose Properties from the Page menu, click the
Language tab, and specify:
Mark Current Language As: <>none
Save the Document As: US/Western European
Relod The Current Document: <Automatic Encoding>
Then, click OK.

o Choose Web Settings from the Tools menu, click the
Language tab, and specify:
Default Page Encoding: US/Western European
Ignore The Keyboard When Deciding The Encoding
Of New Pages.

You'll probbly need to play with this a bit. When it's
working, it won't erase any existing span tags, but it
should stop creating new ones.

Jim Buyens
Microsoft FrontPage MVP
(e-mail address removed)
http://www.interlacken.com
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