FrontPage previewing/publishing - doubled navigation bar

N

NECP

I'm using Frontpage 2003. Although text in the page looks fine when editing,
previewing it shows a doubled left-hand navigation bar and missing text from
the body of site. When published, the site displays as previewed. Sometimes
only images will appear. This is only a problem with one page from the site -
all others are fine. We have once found a glitch in the code that caused the
doubled navigation bar, but can't figure out what makes text/images disappear
or why the problem continues to resurface even though we've re-created the
page and edited the code. Please comment/advise/suggest alternatives.
 
S

Stefan B Rusynko

Shared borders and Include Pages are design time tools w/ the content (inside the <BODY> tags) of the Shared Border or Include page
"embedded" or included as html in your pages when you save any of the file(s) using them (or save the borders / include pages
themselves)

FP converts your page(s) to a series of tables to include the Shared borders, (which are really just a special case of Include
pages)
But FP can not build those tables if either your shared border page content or main page content has illegal html or broken tag
pairs
- usually due to missing </body></html> tags, or unmatched table / cell tags (unclosed table / cell tags), or some other unclosed
html block element

If you can see them using File Preview in Browser they will publish in as part of your pages

If you can't see them using File Preview in Browser, it's because FP can not build the included content tables, so you need to
validate and correct your broken html


--

_____________________________________________
SBR @ ENJOY (-: [ Microsoft MVP - FrontPage ]
"Warning - Using the F1 Key will not break anything!" (-;
_____________________________________________


| I'm using Frontpage 2003. Although text in the page looks fine when editing,
| previewing it shows a doubled left-hand navigation bar and missing text from
| the body of site. When published, the site displays as previewed. Sometimes
| only images will appear. This is only a problem with one page from the site -
| all others are fine. We have once found a glitch in the code that caused the
| doubled navigation bar, but can't figure out what makes text/images disappear
| or why the problem continues to resurface even though we've re-created the
| page and edited the code. Please comment/advise/suggest alternatives.
 
N

NECP

OK, we've tried re-building the page, and we're still having problems. The
page now displays correctly in Mozilla Firefox, but half the page is still
missing in Internet Explorer. Here's the link:
http://www.eccota.com/Events.htm.

I have another copy of page unpublished in which the doubled sidebar still
appears, and we can't seem to get rid of it this time. My knowledge of code
is very limited; do you have any suggestions on where I should look, etc.? If
it helps, I can copy the problem code and send it to you.

Thanks for your help.
 
S

Stefan B Rusynko

You html source code is badly corrupted
- you have multiple head & body tags
Fix you html

<html xmlns:v="urn:schemas-microsoft-com:vml"
<head>
<head>
</head>
</head>
<body stylesrc="index.htm">
<html xmlns:v="urn:schemas-microsoft-com:vml"
<head>
<body stylesrc="index.htm">
</body>
</html></body>
</html>

--

_____________________________________________
SBR @ ENJOY (-: [ Microsoft MVP - FrontPage ]
"Warning - Using the F1 Key will not break anything!" (-;
_____________________________________________


| OK, we've tried re-building the page, and we're still having problems. The
| page now displays correctly in Mozilla Firefox, but half the page is still
| missing in Internet Explorer. Here's the link:
| http://www.eccota.com/Events.htm.
|
| I have another copy of page unpublished in which the doubled sidebar still
| appears, and we can't seem to get rid of it this time. My knowledge of code
| is very limited; do you have any suggestions on where I should look, etc.? If
| it helps, I can copy the problem code and send it to you.
|
| Thanks for your help.
|
| "Stefan B Rusynko" wrote:
|
| > Shared borders and Include Pages are design time tools w/ the content (inside the <BODY> tags) of the Shared Border or Include
page
| > "embedded" or included as html in your pages when you save any of the file(s) using them (or save the borders / include pages
| > themselves)
| >
| > FP converts your page(s) to a series of tables to include the Shared borders, (which are really just a special case of Include
| > pages)
| > But FP can not build those tables if either your shared border page content or main page content has illegal html or broken tag
| > pairs
| > - usually due to missing </body></html> tags, or unmatched table / cell tags (unclosed table / cell tags), or some other
unclosed
| > html block element
| >
| > If you can see them using File Preview in Browser they will publish in as part of your pages
| >
| > If you can't see them using File Preview in Browser, it's because FP can not build the included content tables, so you need to
| > validate and correct your broken html
| >
| >
| > --
| >
| > _____________________________________________
| > SBR @ ENJOY (-: [ Microsoft MVP - FrontPage ]
| > "Warning - Using the F1 Key will not break anything!" (-;
| > _____________________________________________
| >
| >
| > | I'm using Frontpage 2003. Although text in the page looks fine when editing,
| > | previewing it shows a doubled left-hand navigation bar and missing text from
| > | the body of site. When published, the site displays as previewed. Sometimes
| > | only images will appear. This is only a problem with one page from the site -
| > | all others are fine. We have once found a glitch in the code that caused the
| > | doubled navigation bar, but can't figure out what makes text/images disappear
| > | or why the problem continues to resurface even though we've re-created the
| > | page and edited the code. Please comment/advise/suggest alternatives.
| >
| >
| >
 
R

Ronx

In addition to Stefan's comments, everything after Through the Looking
Glass (including that phrase) will only display in Internet Explorer on
computers that have a program named pub11 installed, thanks to the
conditional comment <![if pub11]>. I think the correct syntax for this
is <![if pub 11]> but then viewing with IE will be restricted to those
with Publisher 2003 (aka Publisher version 11) - I, for example, have
Publisher 2007, so will not be able to see the content. Removing <![if
pub11]> from code view, and also removing <!--[if pub]><![if pub11]>
from the end of the page may restore the content in IE.

It appears that the page originated in one of the worst ever web page
design programs - that is Publisher.

For your other page - look for extra <body> tags - each body tag will
usually produce a copy of the left border.
--
Ron Symonds - Microsoft MVP (FrontPage)
Reply only to group - emails will be deleted unread.

http://www.rxs-enterprises.org/fp




OK, we've tried re-building the page, and we're still having problems. The
page now displays correctly in Mozilla Firefox, but half the page is still
missing in Internet Explorer. Here's the link:
http://www.eccota.com/Events.htm.

I have another copy of page unpublished in which the doubled sidebar still
appears, and we can't seem to get rid of it this time. My knowledge of code
is very limited; do you have any suggestions on where I should look, etc.? If
it helps, I can copy the problem code and send it to you.

Thanks for your help.

Stefan B Rusynko said:
Shared borders and Include Pages are design time tools w/ the content (inside the <BODY> tags) of the Shared Border or Include page
"embedded" or included as html in your pages when you save any of the file(s) using them (or save the borders / include pages
themselves)

FP converts your page(s) to a series of tables to include the Shared borders, (which are really just a special case of Include
pages)
But FP can not build those tables if either your shared border page content or main page content has illegal html or broken tag
pairs
- usually due to missing </body></html> tags, or unmatched table / cell tags (unclosed table / cell tags), or some other unclosed
html block element

If you can see them using File Preview in Browser they will publish in as part of your pages

If you can't see them using File Preview in Browser, it's because FP can not build the included content tables, so you need to
validate and correct your broken html


--

_____________________________________________
SBR @ ENJOY (-: [ Microsoft MVP - FrontPage ]
"Warning - Using the F1 Key will not break anything!" (-;
_____________________________________________


| I'm using Frontpage 2003. Although text in the page looks fine when editing,
| previewing it shows a doubled left-hand navigation bar and missing text from
| the body of site. When published, the site displays as previewed. Sometimes
| only images will appear. This is only a problem with one page from the site -
| all others are fine. We have once found a glitch in the code that caused the
| doubled navigation bar, but can't figure out what makes text/images disappear
| or why the problem continues to resurface even though we've re-created the
| page and edited the code. Please comment/advise/suggest alternatives.
 

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