Find those error tags!

[John]

Hello,

I am using FP 2003 and converting my website (approx 40 pages) from a
table/HTML format over to CSS.

I am "search and destroying" hundreds of not needed <font> and <b>
tags, but it is leaving some </b> and </font> tags (the end tags)
laying around. I stil have a few needed <font> and <b>'s so I can't
search and destroy all </font>s and </b>'s...sigh

So now I have a bunch of those <?> boxes on my pages.

I have been going through each one, reviewing it and deleting it, but
there are hundreds.

Anyone know if there is way to use FP's "Find" or " Replace" function
to find all those <?>'s so I don't have to hunt around and find them? I
understand that the <?> is only a visual box and that </font> and </b>
is the underlying tag that has to be deleted.

Surely there is a utility or way to search for <?>.....??

Appreciate the help!

VR/

John

 

[Steve Easton]

The easiest way is to in design view: click Edit > Select All.
Then click Format > Remove Formatting.
Then go through the page and re-add the fonts as necessary.
( or create a class in your style sheet and apply the class )

 

[John]

Steve,

I think that it would take longer to reformat the various fonts
throughout the page than to just go through and delete all the <?>'s.

The stylesheets and classes are already set up and in-use.

I am talking about the leftover </font> and </b> end tags that get left
over once you apply the CSS from the stylesheet.

Those are the things that are generating the <?> boxes.

So I dont want to target every </font> tag because there are a few in
use. Only those ones without a start tag that are creating the </?>
error.

So, I ask myself..maybe I can have the computer search for the <?>' s
instead of me pouring over every page , finding them, and deleting
them.

Multiply that times 40 pages.

Thanks for the help, though.

Still hunting around the web for a solution in between deleting <?>'s.

VR/

John