Dreamweaver Changes Code

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January 12, 2007
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Mutter mutter!

Absolutely horrified - DW8.0.2 appears to act like a Microsoft product and changes code on opening.

I have recently become aware that after having corrected every fine detail to meet W3C validation - including changing from
<body onLoad=
to
<body onload=

to comply . Just fine!

Now whenever I return to open that same file to modify content only - DW has reverted my code to <body onLoad=.

I thought only FrontPage did that. YUK!

Check it out here at one of my clients sites.
www.arkits.com/index.php

I am using the following DocType:
<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN" " http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd">
<html xmlns=" http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml">

My Preferences :
Under Code Rewriting I have the following "set"
- Remove extra closing tags
- Warn when fixing or removing tags
- Never rewrite code with default extensions -.as .asr .asc .asp .ascx .asmx .aspx .cfc .cfm .cfml .config .cs .ihtml .js .jsp .php .php3 .vb .xml .xsl .xslt .xul

- Special characters
- both active content - insert and convert

Can someone please explain and tell me what property setting would stop same - or is there a workaround.?

Thanks in anticipation

John

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Inspiring

Good luck....

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"AceTutor_Warwick" <webforumsuser@macromedia.com> wrote in message
news:ep7mvo$42$1@forums.macromedia.com...
> Apologies for the delay in reply.
>
> Murray (ACE) - thanks for the explanation. Yes indeed I had <html>,
> <head>,
> and <body> inside and include files. It seems to work fine - except when
> DW
> reloaded the page.
>
> David Powers - thanks for your comment - I will change my practise of
> hiding
> the DOCTYPE in includes in future.
>
> Thank you both for your patience
>
> Much appreciated.
>
>
>

A

AceTutor_WarwickAuthor

Participating Frequently

Apologies for the delay in reply.

Murray (ACE) - thanks for the explanation. Yes indeed I had <html>, <head>, and <body> inside and include files. It seems to work fine - except when DW reloaded the page.

David Powers - thanks for your comment - I will change my practise of hiding the DOCTYPE in includes in future.

Thank you both for your patience

Much appreciated.

A

AceTutor_WarwickAuthor

Participating Frequently

Apologies for the delay in reply.

Murray (ACE) - thanks for the explanation. Yes indeed I had <html>, <head>, and <body> inside and include files. It seems to work fine - except when DW reloaded the page.

David Powers - thanks for your comment - I will change my practise of hiding the DOCTYPE in includes in future.

Thank you both for your patience

Much appreciated.

N

Newsgroup_User

Inspiring

I have this page -

<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN"
" http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd">
<html xmlns=" http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml">
<head>
<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=iso-8859-1" />
<title>Untitled Document</title>
<meta http-equiv="imagetoolbar" content="no" />
<meta name="MSSmartTagsPreventParsing" content="TRUE" />
<meta name="robots" content="index,follow" />
</head>

<body onload="foo()">
This is a test
of a page 
</body>
</html>

I save it. Close it. Reopen it. The code remains the same. My
Preferences are quite ordinary. So, I cannot reproduce your complaint.

And for what it's worth, your Microsoft rant is misplaced here.

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Adobe Community Expert
(If you *MUST* email me, don't LAUGH when you do so!)
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"AceTutor_Warwick" <webforumsuser@macromedia.com> wrote in message
news:eo6s9h$m0f$1@forums.macromedia.com...
> Mutter mutter!
>
> Absolutely horrified - DW8.0.2 appears to act like a Microsoft product and
> changes code on opening.
>
> I have recently become aware that after having corrected every fine detail
> to
> meet W3C validation - including changing from
> <body onLoad=
> to
> <body onload=
>
> to comply . Just fine!
>
> Now whenever I return to open that same file to modify content only - DW
> has
> reverted my code to <body onLoad=.
>
> I thought only FrontPage did that. YUK!
>
> Check it out here at one of my clients sites.
> www.arkits.com/index.php
>
> I am using the following DocType:
> <!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN"
> " http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd">
> <html xmlns=" http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml">
>
> My Preferences :
> Under Code Rewriting I have the following "set"
> - Remove extra closing tags
> - Warn when fixing or removing tags
> - Never rewrite code with default extensions -.as .asr .asc .asp .ascx
> .asmx
> .aspx .cfc .cfm .cfml .config .cs .ihtml .js .jsp .php .php3 .vb .xml .xsl
> .xslt .xul
>
> - Special characters
> - both active content - insert and convert
>
> Can someone please explain and tell me what property setting would stop
> same -
> or is there a workaround.?
>
> Thanks in anticipation
>
> John
>
>

A

AceTutor_WarwickAuthor

Participating Frequently

Thank you Murray (ACE) for your response.

Firstly - my apology for bagging Microsoft. In a previous life I used Front Page and the big bleat in those days was the "wonderful ability" of FP to change your code for you. I was suspecting DW might have the same characteristics.

I believe I have found what is my problem - and would appreciate your further comments. Using your code I will - hopefully demonstrate what I have discovered.

1. Your code works perfectly - does not change onload on opening.
2. I then copied your "head area" to a seperate file and saved it as head.php in my includes folder.
3. I then deleted the same code from your code and replaced it with a Server Side include.
4. I tested the file - it appeared to produce the same code. Saved the file with lowercase onload.
5. On reopening your code - onload was now onLoad.

Leaving the DocType out of the include avoid my drama. Why - I don't know and would appreciate your valued comments.

Thanks again

John (alias AceTutor)

..................................................................................................................

My code:
Code for DW_Test.php:

<?php require_once('includes/head.php'); ?>
<body onLoad="foo()">
This is a test
of a page 
</body>
</html>

Code for head.php in the include folder:

<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN"
" http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd">
<html xmlns=" http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml">
<head>
<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=iso-8859-1" />
<title>Untitled Document</title>
<meta http-equiv="imagetoolbar" content="no" />
<meta name="MSSmartTagsPreventParsing" content="TRUE" />
<meta name="robots" content="index,follow" />
</head>

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