Included content disappears

[Steve]

I am using a static table (as a template) as the base for
my site. The table includes included files; one of these
files is a navigation bar which is formatted by a linked
style sheet; another is plain text. When I edit a page
by removing a style in a <p> tag, or remove the <p> tag,
even though that tag is not in the navigation bar or even
the same table cell, all my included content changes to
an apparently broken link. I have the included files in
my _private folder. I'm trying to paste content from
Word, and when I try to delete the extraneous tags, I get
this problem, and I also have this problem when editing
tags generated from my template. Thanks.

 

[Jim Buyens]

This usually means that you have a malformed tag
somewhere, either before or after you make your change.
Some common errors are:

o Tags that lack ending >'s, as in:
<a href="/"><img src="home.jpg"</a>

o Tags that lack a requried ending tag, as in:
<script>
document.write("Woe is me.");

o Improperly nested tags, such as:

<form><table><tr><td></form></td></tr></table>

In general, you'll have much better results by copying
your text from MS Word, pasting it into Notepad, they
copying it in Notepad, then pasting into FrontPage and
formatting by hand.

There's also a second method that usually produces better
results than copying from Word and pasting into FrontPage.
Drag the Word file out of Windows Explorer and drop it
onto FrontPage design view.

Jim Buyens
Microsoft FrontPage MVP
http://www.interlacken.com
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