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I am hoping someone here can help me with a problem I have been
experiencing recently using FP 2002. I am running it in Win2000 Pro.

A few weeks ago I ran into a problem editing one page (it happens to
be the index.htm page) of my site. Most of the page may be edited
without a problem. However, the bottom half of the middle column will
no longer allow any editing. When I put the cursor there, it stops
blinking and within a second or two an error message appears. The page
or the entire program will then close.

To get around this, I have been struggling to make the editing changes
by switching to the html view, which does not seem to have that
problem. This is much more difficult for me, as I am not very good at
html, but I eventually can make the changes I need by trial and error.

The page uploads and displays online without a problem. I suspect it
may be a corrupt file, perhaps the frontpage.exe (?) file. That made
me think that perhaps by uninstalling the program and the
re-installing it, it could be fixed. But before I did that, I was
curious if anyone had any thoughts about correcting this problem.

Thanks in advance.

JV
 
Can you post a URL so we can look at the page??


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I am hoping someone here can help me with a problem I have been
experiencing recently using FP 2002. I am running it in Win2000 Pro.

A few weeks ago I ran into a problem editing one page (it happens to
be the index.htm page) of my site. Most of the page may be edited
without a problem. However, the bottom half of the middle column will
no longer allow any editing. When I put the cursor there, it stops
blinking and within a second or two an error message appears. The page
or the entire program will then close.

To get around this, I have been struggling to make the editing changes
by switching to the html view, which does not seem to have that
problem. This is much more difficult for me, as I am not very good at
html, but I eventually can make the changes I need by trial and error.

The page uploads and displays online without a problem. I suspect it
may be a corrupt file, perhaps the frontpage.exe (?) file. That made
me think that perhaps by uninstalling the program and the
re-installing it, it could be fixed. But before I did that, I was
curious if anyone had any thoughts about correcting this problem.

Thanks in advance.

JV
 
I took a look and ran it through a validator
The page contrains some nesting errors as far as <tr>
tags and <td> tags are concerned.

It also contains a whole bunch of these,
( much more than I pasted here )
<o:p>
<o:p>
<o:p>
<o:p>
<o:p>
<o:p>
<o:p>
<o:p>
<o:p>
<o:p><o:p><o:p><o:p><o:p>
<o:p>
<o:p>
<o:p>
<o:p>
<o:p><o:p><o:p>
<o:p>
<o:p>
<o:p>
<o:p>
<o:p>
<o:p>
<o:p>

And I have no clue as to what they are for.
Maybe someone more experienced will know.

Download a copy of the free
CSE Lite html validator and open the page in it.
Note: if you do, correct one error at a time and then save
refresh and recheck, starting at the top and working down.
Correcting one eror will often correct others.
Trying to correct more than one at a time will often create more.

hth
 
Steve Easton said:
I took a look and ran it through a validator
The page contrains some nesting errors as far as <tr>
tags and <td> tags are concerned.

It also contains a whole bunch of these,
( much more than I pasted here )
<o:p>
Click to expand...

First, let me express my thanks. Although I am quite "html
challenged", you gave me enough information to take a run at the
problem. I did get the validator and it identify a great number of
errors.

The bad news is that I could not figure out how to correct the html
errors. I am not going to contend this is a foreign language, but
indeed it was a bit for me.

The good news is that I picked up on the apparently superflous
"<o:p>". I went to the html view and, after making a working test copy
of the file, I went ahead and deleted all these symbols from the page.
The page looked slightly askew, but I was able to re-set it after some
trial and error copying and pasting.

So, although I did not get from point A to point B the way you
suggested (and the way which was undoubtedly a correct way) I do seem
to have solved the problem. For that I thank you.

One more question, if it is not too much trouble. You will notice in
the lower right part of the home page a table, with a form. This form
was provided by an email mailing service. The site has a weekly
newsletter mailed to about 10,000 people around the world. It is
stricly a voluntary sign-up. However, every time I save this same page
in FrontPage, a code mysteriously appears which prevents the form from
working. Here is the code in question:

<form method="post"
action="http://www.royal-responder.com/rsp-cgi/respondpro/royaluser.cgi">
</form>
<input type="hidden" name="function" value="customer2">

Now, note the line "</form>" . I know that this is the code that
prevents the form from functioning. I must go in server-side, remove
that line manually, save it and then it works.

Any suggestions as to why I am unable to save this page without the
code re-appearing? I go in, remove it, it is gone, save the page and
voila, it is there again.

At any rate my thanks again.

JV
 
When FP add the </form> tag, means that the html code currently in your page
is incorrectly written, possible caused by <form> ... </form> tag is
splitting a table or cells.

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