Microsoft KB Archive/194346

= FP98: Style Formatting Definitions Show as Text in FP Editor =

Article ID: 194346

Article Last Modified on 6/25/2007

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APPLIES TO


 * Microsoft FrontPage 98 Standard Edition

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This article was previously published under Q194346



For a Microsoft FrontPage 97 version of this article, see 163582.



SYMPTOMS
Formatting definitions that are enclosed within a ... element appear as text in the FrontPage Editor.

NOTE: Web browsers that do not support the ... element also interpret the formatting definitions as text.



CAUSE
FrontPage Editor interprets the instructions within the ... element as text.



RESOLUTION
To ensure that the formatting definitions are not displayed as text when you view your page in the FrontPage Editor or a Web browser that does not support the ... element, place the formatting definitions inside a comment tag. For example, to hide the font formatting in this code: H1{font:18pt "Arial"; font-weight:bold; text-aligh:center} change your code so that it looks like this:



STATUS
Microsoft has confirmed that this is a problem in the Microsoft products that are listed at the beginning of this article.



MORE INFORMATION
The comment element does not prevent the formatting instructions from being used by a Web browser that supports the ... element. When you place formatting definitions inside a comment element within a ... element, you ensure that this information is not interpreted as text by a Web browser that does not support the ... element.

Problems produced by editing the HTML which FrontPage generates will not be resolved by Microsoft Technical Support. This HTML code sample is provided as a convenience for authors seeking to extend FrontPage capabilities. For more information on writing HTML, see

http://msdn.microsoft.com/archive/default.asp?url=/archive/en-us/dnarhtmau/html/beghtml.asp

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