Real basic CSS in FP question

[Trevor L.]

My recommendation is to use FrontPage to edit your pages, and
UltraEdit for external .js files, through FrontPage - rightclick on
the .js file, then use Open With and choose UltraEdit.

I use TextPad to edit Perl scripts through FrontPage - never had a
problem when opening (or closing) them as described above.
IMO, closing UltraEdit should not close FrontPage. I have never seen
that behaviour with any external editor (PSP, Irfanview, TextPad,
Notepad, Access, Excel... the list I have used goes on)


In folder view doubleclick on index.htm(l)
Your frameset page will open with those tags showing, ready to edit
(in Design view) the default pages that load with the frameset.

This opens the page in UltraEdit (in the temporary FrontPage folder)

But I am wrong, closing UltraEdit doesn't close FrontPage. When I last
tried, there must have been overlapping windows and I closed the wrong one.
As a result, I gave up.

Now I have tried it again, FrontPage stays open after I close UltraEdit or
even minimize it, but nothing I do will open the Design view with all the
tabs on the bottom. The web is open as per the title bar and other views
(e.g. Folders, Hyperlinks) but the page won't open again in Design View as
it did when starting FrontPage.

Perhaps I should remove UltraEdit as a FrontPage Editor, and see what
happens.

 

[Ronx]

Change UltraEdit from being the Default editor, to just being an
ordinary facility. Do this by setting FrontPage to be the default
editor for web pages.
In Options->Configure Editors highlight htm html dhtml .... and in the
right panel click on FrontPage (Open as HTML) and then click
MakeDefault.

Or you could right click the page in the file list and choose Open
With->FrontPage

 

[tcarp]

For anyone working on trying to recreate this problem, I think it may have
been unique to FP2000. I decided to go ahead and upgrade to FP2003 and the
problem doesn't seem to exist there.

Tom

Yup, the link is there (I even checked the HTML code to confirm.)

Here's the procedure that seems to work but, given it's complexity, it can't
be right.

To be able to get a cell to pick up the class from a linked style sheet, I
have to go into the cell, Format>Style, define the class (.sidebar, which is
already in the linked style sheet). I can then put the cursor in the cell,
right click to get Cell Properties, go to the Style button, and now .sidebar
shows up. When I apply it, the cell picks up the .sidebar rule in the Style
Sheet.

The pain here is that I have to do that to every page.

It's as if putting the rule in the Style Sheet is insufficient to make it
available for assignment to a cell properties. In contrast, the rules are
available in the Style pull-down menu (when applied to text selections).

Tom

Did you apply the style sheet to the html page (Format Style Sheet links)

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|> Hmm - I can't reproduce this. Can you devise a set of steps that will show
| > me exactly what you are doing?
|
| I start with a new web site and new web page. On it I put some text at the
| top followed by a 3-column table, and enter some text in each column.
|
| I then create a new style sheet using the Blueprint on that comes with FP
| 2000 as the basis. I enter a couple rules (remember, these are coming from a
| tutorial out of a book I have called "MSFT FrontPage 2000 Bible").
|
| These are examples of some of the added rules:
|
| td.sidebar
| {
| font-size: 10pt;
| font-style: italic;
| background-color: #FFFFCC
| }
| .headline
| {
| font-family: Verdana;
| font-size: 7.5pt;
| color: #FF0000;
| margin-bottom: 14pt;
| font-weight: bold
| }
|
| I save the style sheet and the web page (in fact I close the application
| completely just in case something I don't understand didn't get updated).
| Although it may not be relevant, keep in mind that I'm using Notepad to
| change the style sheet because of the bug in FP2000).
|
| I then apply the class (in this case .headline) to some of the text by using
| the style pull down menu and things go fine. But, when I select a cell in
| the table, select cell properties, select the style button, and look at the
| pull down for class it's empty.
|
| I'll go back through the tutorial in detail this morning. It appears that
| just adding the rule directly to the style sheet is not sufficient, at least
| for using the style for table cells.
|
| Tom
|
| "Murray" wrote:
|
| > > BTW: In all your examples you use two periods not one in the examples. Am
| > > I
| > > missing a key learning here. Mine all use only 1 period (remember, I'm
| > > using
| > > a tutorial).
| >
| > Dirty glasses. A single period is correct. 8)
| >
| > > I did change it to a class but when I go to cell properties (or table
| > > properties) and go to the Style window none of the classes are available.
| > > Thats what I meant when I asked if there was a step I was missing between
| > > creating the rule in the Style Sheet and having it available when a style
| > > is
| > > assigned to a table or cell.
| >
| > Hmm - I can't reproduce this. Can you devise a set of steps that will show
| > me exactly what you are doing?
| >
| > --
| > Murray
| > --------------
| > MVP FrontPage
| >
| >
| >