FrontPage - add ability to wrap tag around selected text.

tenable · Mar 11, 2005

I thought this was going to be going to the Microsoft FrontPage development
team as it said "post a suggestion" . . hhhmmm, not exactly what I expected
being posted to a discussion group . . . oh, well.

In FrontPage 2000 there was a plug-in that added a new button bar that,
among other things, enabled one to select text and then click a "wrap tag"
button that would let you wrap a tag around text. For example, you could
wrap a tag around the text you selected. Instead, I now have to go to
the code to do this.

Jim Cheshire \(JIMCO\) · Mar 11, 2005

tenable said:
I thought this was going to be going to the Microsoft FrontPage
development team as it said "post a suggestion" . . hhhmmm, not
exactly what I expected being posted to a discussion group . . . oh,
well.

In FrontPage 2000 there was a plug-in that added a new button bar
that, among other things, enabled one to select text and then click a
"wrap tag" button that would let you wrap a tag around text. For
example, you could wrap a tag around the text you selected.
Instead, I now have to go to the code to do this.

Regarding paragraph 1, what is "it"?

Regarding paragraph 2, what do you mean by "now"? FrontPage 2003 has this
ability.

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tenable · Mar 11, 2005

When I said "it", I was referring to the FrontPage 2003 menu item
"Help>Contact Us that takes you to:
http://office.microsoft.com/en-us/contactus.aspx?App=6

You type in your suggestion and it searches, came back with nothing for my
suggestion and then posts it to this forum.

I have tried to select text and have been unable to find a way to wrap a tag
around selected text. If you can tell me where to click, I would really
appreciate it.

Jim Cheshire \(JIMCO\) · Mar 12, 2005

tenable said:
When I said "it", I was referring to the FrontPage 2003 menu item
"Help>Contact Us that takes you to:
http://office.microsoft.com/en-us/contactus.aspx?App=6

You type in your suggestion and it searches, came back with nothing
for my suggestion and then posts it to this forum.

I have tried to select text and have been unable to find a way to
wrap a tag around selected text. If you can tell me where to click,
I would really appreciate it.

Okay. On that page, it spells out what that is for and it tells you that
it's going to a public forum.

As for wrapping a tag, it's the Quick Tag Selector that appears right above
the page in Design view.

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Jens Peter Karlsen[FP MVP] · Mar 12, 2005

FP2003 will automatically create a span tag for you if you select some
text and apply formatting to it except for formatting that can be done
inline like selecting bold or italic.

Regards Jens Peter Karlsen. Microsoft MVP - Frontpage.

-----Original Message-----
From: tenable [mailto:[email protected]]
Posted At: 12. marts 2005 00:33
Posted To: microsoft.public.frontpage.client
Conversation: FrontPage - add ability to wrap tag around
selected text.
Subject: Re: FrontPage - add ability to wrap tag around selected text.

When I said "it", I was referring to the FrontPage 2003 menu
item "Help>Contact Us that takes you to:
http://office.microsoft.com/en-us/contactus.aspx?App=6

You type in your suggestion and it searches, came back with
nothing for my suggestion and then posts it to this forum.

I have tried to select text and have been unable to find a
way to wrap a tag around selected text. If you can tell me
where to click, I would really appreciate it.

Regarding paragraph 1, what is "it"?

Regarding paragraph 2, what do you mean by "now"? FrontPage 2003 has
this ability.

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tenable · Mar 12, 2005

This is what I am talking about. Make a sentence of any word length with
more than two words. For example, One two three. Select "two" and
show me how to wrap a around it.

tenable · Mar 12, 2005

I attempted to do what you said and it either wrapped a around
the text which is not recomended if you want to use CSS or applied the style
to the instead. If I am taking the wrong steps I would be greatful
to know what the correct steps are.

 and are not ADA compliant. I think that FrontPage should use

but I am unable to add them to the style drop-down list. said:
FP2003 will automatically create a span tag for you if you select some
text and apply formatting to it except for formatting that can be done
inline like selecting bold or italic.

Regards Jens Peter Karlsen. Microsoft MVP - Frontpage.

-----Original Message-----
From: tenable [mailto:[email protected]]
Posted At: 12. marts 2005 00:33
Posted To: microsoft.public.frontpage.client
Conversation: FrontPage - add ability to wrap tag around
selected text.
Subject: Re: FrontPage - add ability to wrap tag around selected text.

When I said "it", I was referring to the FrontPage 2003 menu
item "Help>Contact Us that takes you to:
http://office.microsoft.com/en-us/contactus.aspx?App=6

You type in your suggestion and it searches, came back with
nothing for my suggestion and then posts it to this forum.

I have tried to select text and have been unable to find a
way to wrap a tag around selected text. If you can tell me
where to click, I would really appreciate it.

tenable wrote:
I thought this was going to be going to the Microsoft FrontPage
development team as it said "post a suggestion" . . hhhmmm, not
exactly what I expected being posted to a discussion group . . . oh,
well.

In FrontPage 2000 there was a plug-in that added a new button bar
that, among other things, enabled one to select text and then click
a "wrap tag" button that would let you wrap a tag around text. For
example, you could wrap a tag around the text you selected.
Instead, I now have to go to the code to do this.

Regarding paragraph 1, what is "it"?

Regarding paragraph 2, what do you mean by "now"? FrontPage 2003 has
this ability.

--
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Jim Cheshire \(JIMCO\) · Mar 13, 2005

tenable said:
This is what I am talking about. Make a sentence of any word length
with more than two words. For example, One two three. Select
"two" and show me how to wrap a around it.

You can't do that without going to code because there is no tag enclosing
the "two". FrontPage has never been able to do that. That's why there's a
Code view.

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Thomas A. Rowe · Mar 13, 2005

Jim,

Technically, there should be no reason that FP couldn't be designed to do this since you can select
"two" and have FP surround it with the tags or am I missing something related to CSS, since
I don't use really use CSS?

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Murray · Mar 13, 2005

No - you're not missing anything. It should be there. Dreamweaver lets you
make any selection, and Ctrl-T will sequentially toggle from Wrap to Edit to
Insert with a corresponding 'edit' window.

Jens Peter Karlsen[FP MVP] · Mar 13, 2005

Selecting to highligth the text via the toolbar will enclose the
selected text in span tags so Frontpage is capable of doing this it just
lacks to be implemented for other things than highlighting.

Regards Jens Peter Karlsen. Microsoft MVP - Frontpage.

three said:
-----Original Message-----
From: Jim Cheshire (JIMCO) [mailto:[email protected]]
Posted At: 13. marts 2005 01:13
Posted To: microsoft.public.frontpage.client
Conversation: FrontPage - add ability to wrap tag around
selected text.
Subject: Re: FrontPage - add ability to wrap tag around selected text.

This is what I am talking about. Make a sentence of any word length
with more than two words. For example, One two

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three said:

"two" and show me how to wrap a around it.

Click to expand...

You can't do that without going to code because there is no
tag enclosing the "two". FrontPage has never been able to do
that. That's why there's a Code view.

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Murray · Mar 13, 2005

Right. It's a big convenience, in my opinion, to be able to do more than
highlighting.

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Jens Peter Karlsen said:
Selecting to highligth the text via the toolbar will enclose the
selected text in span tags so Frontpage is capable of doing this it just
lacks to be implemented for other things than highlighting.

Regards Jens Peter Karlsen. Microsoft MVP - Frontpage.

-----Original Message-----
From: Jim Cheshire (JIMCO) [mailto:[email protected]]
Posted At: 13. marts 2005 01:13
Posted To: microsoft.public.frontpage.client
Conversation: FrontPage - add ability to wrap tag around
selected text.
Subject: Re: FrontPage - add ability to wrap tag around selected text.

This is what I am talking about. Make a sentence of any word length
with more than two words. For example, One two

Click to expand...

three said:

"two" and show me how to wrap a around it.

Click to expand...

You can't do that without going to code because there is no
tag enclosing the "two". FrontPage has never been able to do
that. That's why there's a Code view.

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Jim Cheshire \(JIMCO\) · Mar 13, 2005

Thomas said:
Jim,

Technically, there should be no reason that FP couldn't be designed
to do this since you can select "two" and have FP surround it with
the tags or am I missing something related to CSS, since I
don't use really use CSS?

Sure, you could design code to do that. It would be quite easy. However,
FrontPage doesn't do that now.

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Jim Cheshire \(JIMCO\) · Mar 13, 2005

Murray said:
Right. It's a big convenience, in my opinion, to be able to do more
than highlighting.

If someone wants to go to my contact page and enter details on what you're
looking for, I'd be glad to consider it for an add-in.

http://www.jimcoaddins.com/contactus.aspx

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tenable · Mar 14, 2005

There is a plug-in for FrontPage 2000 that does this. It is called the HTML
Tag Editor. Microsoft no longer has it on their site, but I have it if you
want to see how it works.

Jim Cheshire \(JIMCO\) · Mar 14, 2005

tenable said:
There is a plug-in for FrontPage 2000 that does this. It is called
the HTML Tag Editor. Microsoft no longer has it on their site, but I
have it if you want to see how it works.

Thanks, I've got it. I'm not sure how much demand there would be for an
add-in that does this.

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Stefan B Rusynko · Mar 15, 2005

tenable · Mar 15, 2005

I am now playing with it in FP2003 and it does add a bit of screen flash, but
has not crashed anything so for now I am getting what I need.

In any case, the ability to select text and wrap a tag around it is very
useful and if Microsoft could add it to the Right+Click or as a button, that
would help a bit.

The plug-in seems to have been given a new life and is out there with new
installation instructions at:
http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/...dd-776b-4b5b-ab97-511d6730a52b&displaylang=en
and http://www.microsoft.com/learning/books/office/officexp/cd/default.asp
on January 7, 2003. I think the older version only worked in FP 2000 and
when you looked in the executable using a ZIP program you see a handful of
files and the new version only contains one DLL you add through FP2003
Tools>Add-Ins.

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