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04-12-2008 2:58 PM

Bill Mosca

Joined on 03-08-2008 San Francisco Bay Area Posts 19

I've turned on the Advanced features for web design. I understand how the HTML modules work, but I'd like to suggest one more tool: Edit existing HTML on the page. As it is now, I have to open a page in design, copy the text and paste it into a simple text editor like NotePad.

Within NotePad, I can make changes like a page anchor tag. Then I have to paste it back into my page. Sometimes I get lucky and can grab all the tags for text like a title, but lots of times I have to highligh the whole page and then hunt for the the part I wan to edit.

Example: I get this when highlighting a title:

NetWorkdays

I then add a anchor tag:

<A class name=anchor2> NetWorkdays</A>

When I paste it back into my page, a bunch or redundant tags get added to the HTML based on the CSS style I initially chose.

It would be so much better if there was a way to toggle between WYSIWYG and HTML views.

Bill Mosca, Microsoft Office Access MVP

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04-12-2008 5:51 PM In reply to

StudioAllen

Joined on 02-08-2008 Dorr, MI Posts 1,893

Currently if you want HTML control you have enable third party tools, this will allow you to upload your "own" site.

StudioAllen
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04-12-2008 7:19 PM In reply to

royster

Joined on 02-12-2008 Posts 1,478

Hi Bill,

I understand what you mean. Your method is probably the only way of doing that at the moment, though as you have mentioned, it is not very robust. You really have to be careful, because sometimes, doing that could cause an issue with editing. Initially, Page Editor will accept what you put paste back in. However, once you save and close the Page Editor and reopen the webpage again, the new "HTML code" you paste in may have disappeared and you cannot edit it, this is due to the fact that there are javascripts in Page Editor that will strip out anything it doesn't like. Now, until you actually re-save the page, those new "HTML code" you put in are still there (you can still view them), but you have no way of editing or retrieving them.

Hope this helps!
Royster
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04-12-2008 8:24 PM In reply to

Bill Mosca

Joined on 03-08-2008 San Francisco Bay Area Posts 19

Royster

Thanks for you input.

Bill Mosca, Microsoft Office Access MVP

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04-12-2008 8:25 PM In reply to

Bill Mosca

Joined on 03-08-2008 San Francisco Bay Area Posts 19

>Currently if you want HTML control you have enable third party tools, this will allow you to upload your "own" site.

The reason I picked this forum was to suggest an improvement. Isn't that what this forum is for?

Bill Mosca, Microsoft Office Access MVP

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04-12-2008 9:05 PM In reply to

Advisor-Norris

Joined on 03-12-2008 Atlanta,GA Posts 199

Bill,

I agree. It would be neat to be able to toggle the Office Live Web Design Tool between Code View and Design View. This will alllow us to do things such as make the page titles all have the <h1> tag then we can specify in our CSS that all <h1> tags will be a certain size, font and color. At present, we would need to insert a HTML module on each page just of the page title to accomplish this.

Good suggestion.

Norris