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Lydia123
11-25-2007, 04:01 PM
This has happened on several of my website pages that are on my desktop. I click on the HTML tab and there is almost nothing there, just a few lines for a header or footer. Yet the page shows up in its entirety in "normal," and previews fine. I can't make changes to this blank desktop page and upload it because it will overwrite the good page currently online, and show up blank (experience has taught me that this happens).

I've tried a couple of fixes. I clicked on "source" for that same page online, c/p'd the HTML (which was all present) to my desktop page, saved ...and it disappeared after the save! IOW, even after c/ping, the desktop page is still blank when the HTML tab is clicked. I also tried c/ping an good older version of that page into the new "damaged" page, but same thing happens: when I save, it all disappears. Why?

This only happens on a few pages, not on all of them. And I'm using Front Page, if it matters.
silentcollision
11-25-2007, 11:46 PM
This has happened on several of my website pages that are on my desktop. I click on the HTML tab and there is almost nothing there, just a few lines for a header or footer. Yet the page shows up in its entirety in "normal," and previews fine. I can't make changes to this blank desktop page and upload it because it will overwrite the good page currently online, and show up blank (experience has taught me that this happens).

I've tried a couple of fixes. I clicked on "source" for that same page online, c/p'd the HTML (which was all present) to my desktop page, saved ...and it disappeared after the save! IOW, even after c/ping, the desktop page is still blank when the HTML tab is clicked. I also tried c/ping an good older version of that page into the new "damaged" page, but same thing happens: when I save, it all disappears. Why?

This only happens on a few pages, not on all of them. And I'm using Front Page, if it matters.

Can we have a link to an example, and do you have any dynamic programming going on? Is this a script that you're using?

And when you say "a few lines for a header and a footer" do you mean visible or in the actual source? Could it just be a broken image link issue?
Lydia123
12-03-2007, 06:43 AM
Can we have a link to an example, and do you have any dynamic programming going on? Is this a script that you're using?

And when you say "a few lines for a header and a footer" do you mean visible or in the actual source? Could it just be a broken image link issue?


Silentcollision, thx for responding, sorry for my delay in getting back, work has been keeping me busy and I back-burnered this frustrating issue. If there's a script on the page, I didn't put it there (how do I tell if there's a script there)? The following is what the code looks like when I click the HTML tab in Front Page on my desktop. It is almost blank, meaning nothing else that is on the page shows up.

<html>

<head>
<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=windows-1252">
<meta http-equiv="Content-Language" content="en-us">
<meta http-equiv="keywords" content="aol,cd,collection,diskette">
<meta http-equiv="keywords" content="lydia lydias">
<meta name="GENERATOR" content="Microsoft FrontPage 5.0">
<meta name="ProgId" content="FrontPage.Editor.Document">
<title>FAQ</title>
<meta name="Microsoft Theme" content="2 010, default">
<meta name="Microsoft Border" content="b">
</head>

<body style="font-family: Comic Sans MS">

<body>

<body></body></html>



YET ...I just copied this blank page into my public html folder and did a source view on it, and all the html shows up! ??? Here's the link to that page:

http://lydiasaoldisks.com/blanksheet.htm

Any thoughts or insight into why the HTML page shows up almost blank on my desktop but apparently is showing up in its entirety now, live on the site?
Lydia123
12-03-2007, 06:48 AM
Along these lines, another question ...you'll notice on the link I posted that there's a border at the bottom with links. Front Page has a shared border option, meaning that I can put something in a border and it will show up in all the pages' borders. However, when I make a border change to one page and upload it, it does NOT take effect on all the other pages. Do I have to upload the entire site from my desktop to Bluehost for a shared border change to take effect?
felgall
12-03-2007, 12:14 PM
That HTML you posted has three body tags which is two more than a page must have in order to work properly.
Lydia123
12-05-2007, 06:38 AM
<< That HTML you posted has three body tags which is two more than a page must have in order to work properly >>

Ok, I will erase two of the tags on my desktop copy and see if that does anything. But why does it work properly on the uploaded version I posted, then?
felgall
12-05-2007, 11:57 AM
Browsers attempt to make sense of whatever you have in the web page. If you put invalid code there then each browser will make its own guesses as to what you meant and so the page will look different in different browsers. Also viewing a web page on your own computer uses the file extension to work out what type of processing to do, viewing a web page from the internet uses other information as well/instead of the file extension and so may process the file differently.