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FP97: ID, Class, Style Attributes Not Retained

Article ID: 162234

Article Last Modified on 9/26/2001

Microsoft FrontPage 97 Standard Edition

This article was previously published under Q162234

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Cascading style sheets consist of several parts:

A STYLE tag specified inside the HEAD tag that describes the appearance and behavior of other elements on the page.
A LINK tag placed inside the HEAD tag that references an external style sheet via a Uniform Resource Locator (URL).
The ID, CLASS, and STYLE attributes that can be specified on all tags inside the BODY.

FrontPage correctly preserves the STYLE and LINK tags in the head all the time, but it only preserves the ID, CLASS, and STYLE attributes if they occur within an HTML tag that supports extended attributes.

SYMPTOMS

Some elements of Cascading Style Sheets (CSS) are discarded by FrontPage Editor. For example, FrontPage Editor correctly preserves the STYLE and LINK tags placed within the HEAD element, but it only preserves the ID, CLASS, and STYLE attributes some of the time.

CAUSE

ID, CLASS, and STYLE attributes in the BODY section of your document are not preserved if they occur within an HTML tag that does not support extended attributes.

For additional information about tags that do not support extended attributes, click the article number below to view the article in the Microsoft Knowledge Base:

161420 FP97: FrontPage Editor Deletes Unknown Attributes in HTML

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