FP HTML Editor (?) Deletes Most of Dreamweaver HTML

D

David-David

A consultant "helped" me by developing a very pretty, clever web page with
sound and a film clip. Unfortunately, he used Dreamweaver for the one page,
and I used FP 2000/2003 for all the other pages. I want to absorb his code
into the Frontpage. But when I View Source, Copy, Paste into Notepad, Copy
from Notepad, Paste into the HTML of a New Page created in/by FrontPage, then
Save, THE HTML EDITOR DELETES ALL CODE FROM THE START OF THE BODY EXCEPT FOR
THE LAST 10 LINES. Like an allergic reaction, as soon as FrontPage HTML
Editor "touches" the code picked up from Dreamweaver, most of the code is
deleted. My first attempts did not use Notepad as an intermediary, and I
picked up formatting commands that could not easily be edited out, and I
still got the truncated HTML. Upgrading from FP2000 to 2003 did not solve
the problem. Help please.
 
M

Murray

Why on earth are you doing it this way? Just open the DW page in FP.

Link me to the page and I'll see if there is anything in there that would be
troublesome.
 
M

Murray

That's not a Dreamweaver page. So - I'm a little confused about what the
problem is then?
 
D

David-David

Murray, the consultant does not use FP; I do not use DW. He must have picked
up my old FP weddings.htm page, modified it with DW, and then FTPed it to the
website. I FTPed it to my PC where I can keep it as part of my master copy of
the website. If I Open it with FP-Page-HTML, it loses most of its code. For
example, the page now sometimes activates a security alert with the yellow
warning toolbar near the top of the scren. I thought of placing instructions
 
D

David-David

Murray,
Before the code was Opened by FP, it had 155 lines of code. After the Open,
it looked like this:

<html>

<head>
<meta http-equiv='Content-Type' content='text/html; charset=windows-1252'>
<title>Weddings</title>
<meta name='GENERATOR' content='Microsoft FrontPage 6.0'>
<meta name='ProgId' content='FrontPage.Editor.Document'>
<meta name="Microsoft Theme" content="poetic 0111, default">
<meta name="Microsoft Border" content="tl">
</head>

<body><p><i><font size="5">

<div align="left">
<OBJECT ID="MMPlayer1"
CODEBASE="http://activex.microsoft.com/activex/controls/mplayer/en/nsmp2inf.cab#Version=5,1,52,701"
standby="Loading Microsoft Windows Media Player components..."
type="application/x-oleobject"
classid="CLSID:22d6f312-b0f6-11d0-94ab-0080c74c7e95">
<PARAM NAME="FileName" VALUE="malibuMed.wmv">
<PARAM NAME="ShowControls" VALUE="0">
<PARAM NAME="ShowStatusBar" VALUE="0">
<PARAM NAME="ShowDisplay" VALUE="0">
<PARAM NAME="DefaultFrame" VALUE="Slide">
<PARAM NAME="Autostart" VALUE="1">
<Embed type="application/x-mplayer2"
pluginspage="http://www.microsoft.com/Windows/MediaPlayer/download/default.asp"
src="malibuMed.wmv" Name="MMPlayer1" Autostart="1" ShowControls="0"
ShowDisplay="0" ShowStatusBar="0" DefaultFrame="Slide">
</embed>
</OBJECT>
</div>



<p align="left">Photos owned by <a
href="http://www.miriamgeerphotography.com"> Miriam Geer, Inc. Malibu,
CA</a></p>

</body>

</html>
 
M

Murray

example, the page now sometimes activates a security alert with the yellow
warning toolbar near the top of the scren.
Click to expand...

That's most likely related to this -

http://www.projectseven.com/support/answers.asp?id=153

You would only see that Security alert when you open the page locally, not
when you open it from the web.
I cannot do this at this time without losing most of the HTML
Click to expand...

Can you generate one of these pages that has "lost HTML" and show it to me?
The code on that page you linked is *strictly* FP code. It shouldn't lose
anything.
 
M

Murray

Oh - I see.

It's got something to do with the way he embedded the Windows Media player.
I get exactly the same thing when I copy and paste the code into FP2003.

What is it you want to change?
 
D

David-David

see post #5 from me to you for "after". You can see "before" with the View
Source on the website.
 
M

Murray

I see what it's doing. FP is removing the code that is part of the Theme
and navigation used on the page.

Tell me what you want to change and I can change it for you.
 
D

David-David

Appreciate all your help. I do not have any changes yet. I just wanted to be
sure that I had control when, and if, I ever needed it.

It looks like I will buy an FP2003 For Dummies book, or equivalent, and
learn how to incorporate sounds and video on a standard FP page. Then
reference the URL shown in the DW code. Thanks again,.
 

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