Hi there.
Last night I got some advice about creating an invisible counter, by putting "|sh=f" before the > to close the counter code.  I've done that, and tried to publish it,  but each time the counter shows, and when I go back to the original FrontPage code, the last quote mark has been changed to "so the code now looks like this:

"|sh=f""

and hence the counter is visible. (And this is of course, after I've "saved" my original changes!)

I know Front Page is quirky with code, I've already had to redo my Entropy Search Query by getting rid of the html code for the <  and > symbols (a stupid program that doesn't *recognize* a bit of code when pasted in its html page, but I digress.....)

Is there a way I can bypass this obvious need of Frontpage to add the &quot; code or am I just going to have to resign myself to only using one counter, and having it visible?

Thanks for any advice and help.

Kind Regards.
Tracy (aka Kali)

I put it design view.  Otherwise the code would be visible on the homepage...  

no, that was a valid question.

I couldn't view the source on the live page from the computer I was using earlier to veirfy that the problme was happening upon publishing, but on this computer (we have three in the house *blush*)  the view source from the live page *does* has this "|sh="f&quot;" so somehow in the publishing of it (it's the FrontPage "publish" option to the site), this erroneous quote code is being added.

So the counter is visible.

Thanks for any suggestions.
Tracy

www.stophighstakestests.org

TranzNDance....

yes... there *is* an extra quote notation because FrontPage is *putting* it there upon publishing.  It's NOT there when I save the code with "|sh=f"> intact, which I have to do to publish it (save it, tat is) - but after I publish the new changes, it's both like that in my home version and on my live site...   the code changes. Honest.

FrontPage is ADDING this -- it's not jut making an extraquote into code,  ("|sh=f""> ) that's NOT what I have when I save it.  I have what I'm supposed to have: ("|sh=f">) and FrontPage is adding code and keeping the CloseQuote that looks like this: "

this ( &quot; ) is coming totally from nowhere  

So.... besides killing the gremlins in FrontPage, or  in my computer,   what other options could I have?

Thanks!
Tracy

Weird thing is that I added the Entropy search query with no problem.  I wonder why FrontPage would care if I'm editing someone else's code? (just a hypothetical....)  

Thanks for your help -- I'll try some things out and see if I can't get it taken care of.  Appreciate your time!

Tracy

Dan is correct. What it does is to surrond the code you don't want messed with by the following tags. You can also manually add the tags in code view.

<!--webbot bot="HTMLMarkup" startspan -->
your code here
<!--webbot bot="HTMLMarkup" endspan -->

When pasting code copied from a web page, always paste it into Notepad first then copy it back out. This strips the formatting from the web page and leaves only the code you want.

I think it's Microsoft thinking that it knows better than you what you want to do.

FP isn't anywhere as bad as Publisher or Word's "html" converter.