FP: Illegal Comments Removed from HTML Markup Bot

• Microsoft FrontPage 97 for Windows
• Microsoft FrontPage for the Power Macintosh, version 1.0

SYMPTOMS

After you insert an HTML Markup in a page, illegal HTML comment code may gradually be deleted one or two characters at a time from the front of the Markup each time you save or reopen the page.

RESOLUTION

To resolve this behavior, use one of the following methods:

• If you are using Microsoft FrontPage 97, upgrade to FrontPage 98.
  
  -or-
  
  
• Use an alternate HTML code (or codes) that accomplishes the same thing.
  
  Note: Legal HTML comments begin with the following characters:

  
       <!-- 

  and end with the following characters:

  
       --> 

  Example: <!-- This is a legal HTML Comment -->
  

STATUS

Microsoft has confirmed this to be a problem in the versions of Microsoft FrontPage listed at the beginning of this article. This problem was corrected in Microsoft FrontPage 98 for Windows.

Additional query words: eaten deleted removed altered

Keywords : fpedit
Version : MACINTOSH:1.0; WINDOWS:
Platform : MACINTOSH WINDOWS
Issue type : kbinfo