How can I turn off Insert of Span language tags in FP 2003?

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I've used it since FrontPage '98, but FP 2003 is the first version I've been willing to use for application development. Thanks for improving it. Unfortunately, FP 2003 has the terrible habit of inserting a <span lang="en-us"> tag everywhere a user inserts text using the "DESIGN" view of a web page. I could probably live with that if it didn't then hose the spell checker and generate Help Desk calls.

For instance, the original text was "irritating", the user (in design view) deleted the "i" and inserted an "I" in its place. Now the code view shows <span lang="en-us">I</span>rritating, and the spell checker finds it as an error.

I've looked everywhere in the MS site, Knowledge Base, Technet, etc.. Someone please tell me, HOW CAN I TURN THIS "FEATURE" OFF? *&@%#^!%$ ;-

Thanks!
 
Thanks for the link, Kat. I've wondered about this.
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| > I've used it since FrontPage '98, but FP 2003 is the first version
| > I've been willing to use for application development. Thanks for
| > improving it. Unfortunately, FP 2003 has the terrible habit of
| > inserting a <span lang="en-us"> tag everywhere a user inserts text
| > using the "DESIGN" view of a web page. I could probably live with
| > that if it didn't then hose the spell checker and generate Help Desk
| > calls.
| >
| > For instance, the original text was "irritating", the user (in design
| > view) deleted the "i" and inserted an "I" in its place. Now the code
| > view shows <span lang="en-us">I</span>rritating, and the spell
| > checker finds it as an error.
| >
| > I've looked everywhere in the MS site, Knowledge Base, Technet, etc..
| > Someone please tell me, HOW CAN I TURN THIS "FEATURE" OFF? *&@%#^!%$
| > ;-)
| >
| > Thanks!
 
You're welcome, but the credit really goes to Jim Buyens, another FP MVP.
 
From my experience we can turn off this behavior such way only for pages
writing in one language. How can I turn off this behavior for bilingual
pages, for example I have both English and Russian text on my web page. When
I choose English FrontPage inserting span tag for Russian text that I type,
and when I choose Russian all happens vice verse.

Thanks in advance.

Sergey Povalyaev.
 
Correct
- you can only set 1 language per Site, so FP uses the spans to identify alternate languages in the pages

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| From my experience we can turn off this behavior such way only for pages
| writing in one language. How can I turn off this behavior for bilingual
| pages, for example I have both English and Russian text on my web page. When
| I choose English FrontPage inserting span tag for Russian text that I type,
| and when I choose Russian all happens vice verse.
|
| Thanks in advance.
|
| Sergey Povalyaev.
|
|
| | > You're welcome, but the credit really goes to Jim Buyens, another FP MVP.
| >
| > --
| > ~ Kathleen Anderson
| > Microsoft MVP - FrontPage
| > Spider Web Woman Designs
| > http://www.spiderwebwoman.com/resources/
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| >
| > > THANK YOU!!! You are now officially the MS Hero du jour!
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Yes, I am right, I know. :)

But how can I turn off inserting Span tag at all? As far as I know another
web editors don't insert such tags in html code, so for Microsoft it should
be wisely to has some option to switch this behavior. May be someone knows
about way to disable inserting Span tag at all?

Thanks in advance.

Sergey Povalyaev.

Stefan B Rusynko said:
Correct
- you can only set 1 language per Site, so FP uses the spans to identify
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alternate languages in the pages
 
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