Re: Help With SRCHHELP_X page and tokens

["David Jones" <DJones@xxxxxxxxxx>]

>>> Anne.Walsh@xxxxxxxxxx 07/31/01 01:59PM >>>
I am not a HTML guru but I thought I knew how to use Dreamweaver until
Innovative thru their pages at me.
<<<

Anne, 

One thing to keep in mind is that Dreamweaver by default will reformat your HTML. There is a preference setting called "HTML Format" with options to "Indent" the HTML based on tables, paragraphs and what-not.

If that is turned on and if your page has any kind of structured formatting, then your tokens will very off end up not starting as the first character on a line or  my have extra HTML following the token. Both of these will ruin a token as far as the Innovative web server is concerned.

Basically a token will only work if it is:

1) a valid token, entered as a HTML comment with no spaces between the element and the tags (and don't forget the curly braces! see #102136 for the valid tokens (r2001 web manual))
<!--{search}--> is valid
<!-- {search --> is not

2) starts with the first character on a line
<!--{search}--> is valid
	<!--{search}--> is not
3) is the only text on the whole line
<!--{search}-->
is valid
<!--{search}--><some other html> or someother text
is not valid

Dreamweaver makes it hard to follow these pretty nonstandard rules (I can't think of another server-side include model that has anything even remotely similar), so I always edit the page in dreamweaver and then edit again in a plain HTML editor (notepad, BBedit, etc) just to place the tokens.

HTH,
David

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