BUG: Script Wizard Skips Scriptable Objects in FrontPad

 Last reviewed: December 9, 1997
Article ID: Q165892
The information in this article applies to:
  • Microsoft Visual InterDev, version 1.0

SYMPTOMS

Invoking the Script Wizard on a document from FrontPad (the Microsoft FrontPage Editor - Visual InterDev Edition) results in some or all scriptable objects not appearing in the Script Wizard displays.

CAUSE

The Script Wizard is incorrectly parsing the <!DOCTYPE> tag found at the very beginning of a FrontPage document. It is interpreting it as a comment. As a result, the comment is not closed until the Script Wizard encounters --> in the document. All objects between the <!DOCTYPE> tag and the end of the first comment in the document are then being treated as if they were within a comment.

STATUS

Microsoft has confirmed this to be a bug in the Microsoft products listed at the beginning of this article. We are researching this bug and will post new information here in the Microsoft Knowledge Base as it becomes available.

MORE INFORMATION

This behavior does not occur in the Visual InterDev source editor's Script Wizard.

The document is not damaged in any way by this behavior.

Steps to Reproduce Behavior

  1. Open an HTML document in the Microsoft FrontPage Editor (Visual InterDev Edition).

  2. Note that in the two top panes of the Script Wizard, programmable objects that are in the document might not be listed.

REFERENCES

For the latest Knowledge Base articles and other support information on Visual InterDev and Active Server Pages, see the following page on the Microsoft Technical Support site: 

   http://support.microsoft.com/support/vinterdev/


Keywords          : VIDevEnv kbenv kbtool kbbug
Version           : 1.0
Platform          : WINDOWS
Issue type        : kbbug

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Last reviewed: December 9, 1997
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