KB163582 - FP97: Style Formatting Definitions Show as Text in FP Editor

Article ID: 163582

Article Last Modified on 10/1/2001

Microsoft FrontPage 97 Standard Edition

This article was previously published under Q163582

For a Microsoft FrontPage 98 version of this article, see 194346.

SYMPTOMS

Formatting definitions that are enclosed within a <style>...</style> element appear as text in FrontPage Editor.

NOTE: Web browsers that do not support the <style>...</style> element also interpret the formatting definitions as text.

CAUSE

FrontPage Editor interprets the instructions within the <style>...</style> element as text.

RESOLUTION

To ensure that the formatting definitions are not displayed as text when you view your page in FrontPage Editor or a Web browser that does not support the <style>...</style> element, place the formatting definitions inside a comment () tag. For example, to hide the font formatting in this code:

   <style>
   H1{font:18pt "Arial"; font-weight:bold; text-aligh:center}
   </style>

change your code so that it looks like this:

   <style>
   <!--
   H1{font:18pt "Arial"; font-weight:bold; text-aligh:center}
   -->
   </style>

STATUS

Microsoft has confirmed this to be a problem in the Microsoft products listed at the beginning of this article.

MORE INFORMATION

The comment () tag does not prevent the formatting instructions from being used by a Web browser that supports the <style>...</style> element. When you place formatting definitions inside a comment () tag within a <style>...</style> element, you ensure that this information is not interpreted as text by a Web browser that does not support the <style>...</style> element.

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