HTML Validation problem with FrontPage Form

[rfr]

FrontPage 2003 inserts this line of code into my HTML
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<form method="POST" action="_vti_bin/shtml.exe/orderform.htm" onSubmit=""
webbot-action="--WEBBOT-SELF--">
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To which the WDG HTML validator reponds
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Line 79, Column 88: there is no attribute "WEBBOT-ACTION"
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How do I get HTML documents that use FrontPage 2003 Forms to validate?

Regards,
Bob Rohrer

 

[Steve Easton]

Ignore it, it's a known issue.


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[Andrew Murray]

FrontPage 2003 inserts this line of code into my HTML
=========================================
<form method="POST" action="_vti_bin/shtml.exe/orderform.htm" onSubmit=""
webbot-action="--WEBBOT-SELF--">
=========================================

To which the WDG HTML validator reponds
==================================
Line 79, Column 88: there is no attribute "WEBBOT-ACTION"
==================================

How do I get HTML documents that use FrontPage 2003 Forms to validate?

Regards,
Bob Rohrer

The references to "Webbot" indicate you're using the Frontpage (Server
Extensions) form handler, which is not strictly W3C standards code.

FYI, a lot of the FP web bot features tend to be "IE only" and fail or
degrade when viewed in other browsers, and especially on other platforms
such as MacOS or Linux (even with IE on those systems, it may not always
work) - the Photo Gallery in FP is notorious for working only in IE for
Windows (at least, not guarantee to work in other browsers/platforms);
others with similar problems include WordArt and the VML drawing tools.