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About working with HTML

Applies to: Microsoft Office FrontPage 2003

Hypertext Markup Language (HTML) is a standard for creating pages for the World Wide Web. HTML uses special markers, called tags (tag: A text string used in HTML to identify a page element's type, format, and appearance. Many elements have start and end tags that define where the element starts and stops.), that indicate how Web browsers should display page elements such as text and graphics.

You can edit or format HTML code using tools available in Code or Design views. Design view is a WYSIWIG (WYSIWYG: Acronym for What You See Is What You Get. Allows you to view a document as it will appear in the final product and to directly edit the text, graphics, and other elements within that view.) view where you can work with HTML tags indirectly.

When you edit a Web page in Design view, or in the design pane in Split view, you can show or hide HTML tag markers that indicate the start and end of underlying HTML tags.

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Microsoft FrontPage provides a variety of features that help you edit HTML more easily.

IntelliSense provides you with a list of available choices when you're adding tags or attributes.
The Quick Tag Selector enables you to select entire tags, or the contents of tags, without having to switch to Code view.
All of the standard editing commands are also available for editing code. For example, you can Copy, Cut, Paste, Find, and Replace while editing your Web page.
The properties of HTML tags are displayed so you can change them yourself.
Line numbering helps you to locate and move between specific lines of code.

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HTML formatting defines how the code is structured on the page. The basic formatting techniques — line breaks, white space, and indentation — make HTML easier to read and edit.

You can specify these settings in FrontPage and set the font color and size uniquely for tags, attributes, values, and scripts (script: A type of computer code used to perform tasks on Web pages, such as incrementing a "number of visitors" counter each time there is a new visitor. Web scripts can be written in several script languages. Scripts do not need to be compiled to be run.). You can also specify settings to keep the format of the original code, or to apply new format settings to pages you edit.