Span tags

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Stephen Green

How can I prevent FrontPage 2002 from inserting Span tags before and after
text in my pages. This happens mostly when I am editing text inserted into
FrontPage from Notepad. (I usually copy text from Word into Notepad before
inserting it into FP).

Thanks.

Stephen
 
I remember seeing an option for something like "use span tags for mark-up"
check the help files for span tag. I've seen it but I don't remember where.
HTH
sorry it wasn't more.
 
This problem results when the keyboard layout does not match the web page
layout.
For example, if the web page language is unspecified or English, this is
assumed to be English (USA), and the Keyboard layout is Great Britain, then
the span tags will be applied with every edit you make.
One way to stop the tags is to specify the web page language explicitly:
<meta http-equiv="Content-Language" content="en-gb">
to match the keyboard.
There is also an option somewhere in the Tools->Options, or Web Options or
Page Options, (sorry, cannot remember the details - FP2003 does not have
this feature or options) that also clears the problem.
HTH
 
Thanks all! Somehow, the page in question lost its language settings. I
don't know how, as all (I think) of the other pages in my web are fine...

Take care.

Stephen
 
Stephen Green said:
How can I prevent FrontPage 2002 from inserting Span tags before and after
text in my pages. This happens mostly when I am editing text inserted into
FrontPage from Notepad. (I usually copy text from Word into Notepad before
inserting it into FP).
Click to expand...

Make sure a web is open in FrontPage

Go to Tools | Web Settings (for fp03 Site Settings)

Click the Language tab

In the Language dialog box make sure that the 'Default Page Encoding' drop
down option is set to US/Western European (Windows)

If this is already selected and you are still getting the span tags in your
HTML, repeat steps 1 & 2, then in the Language dialog box check the option:
'Ignore the keyboard when deciding the encoding of new pages'.

This will fix your problem.

btw .... if your bringing old content from Word or having to collect data in
Word I can see why your using Word... but if you are writing in Word then
bringing to notepad then FP .. why not write straight in FP? ... I mention
this because in my experiance

hth

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Thanks, Tina!

I don't actually create content myself. I receive it in several formats -
Word, Publisher, Corel Draw...

That's why I usually filter the copy through Notepad - it just ensures plain
text.

Your instructions (and those at the link Kathleen provided) did the trick.

Take care.

Stephen
 
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