Article ID: 191044
Article Last Modified on 3/7/2005
APPLIES TO
- Microsoft Visual InterDev 6.0 Standard Edition
This article was previously published under Q191044
SYMPTOMS
In Design view, if you click Increase Indent when the cursor is inside a element, the
HTML tag is replaced with the < blockquote > element. This can cause data loss.
CAUSE
This is caused by a limitation in the way Design view is implemented.
RESOLUTION
Do not use Increase Indent to indent a element. Instead, go to Source view and manually enclose the
element within < blockquote > tags.
STATUS
Microsoft has confirmed that this is a bug in the Microsoft products that are listed at the beginning of this article.
This bug was corrected in Visual Studio 6.0 Service Pack 3.
For more information about Visual Studio service packs, please see the following articles in the Microsoft Knowledge Base:
MORE INFORMATION
This is a data loss issue. Any attributes, except style attributes, that exist within the tag are lost (that is, the attributes are not replicated in the resulting < blockquote > tag).
element:
My div
is converted to the following < blockquote > element:
< BLOCKQUOTE style="COLOR:green" >My div< /BLOCKQUOTE >
Steps to Reproduce Behavior
- Open an HTML file in Source view.
- In the body, create a element that contains text. For example:
Test Div
- Switch to Design view.
- Place the cursor within the div tag's text.
- From the menu, click Format and Increase Indent.
- Switch back to Source view.
tags are replaced with < blockquote > tags.
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