Bookmark Bug Saving Bookmarks

M

Mike

I have a page on my site that has had 9 bookmarks for a
long time, and a few days ago I added six more.

If I save the page and publish it, it works fine. But if I
close the page in FrontPage and re-open it, the new
bookmarks are gone, even though any other changes I made
are still there.

I can work around this by re-creating the six bookmarks
(the references to them are fine and don't get deleted)
every time I make another change to the page, which is
often. But I wonder if anyone has any idea what could be
causing this other than a FrontPage bug.
 
J

Jim Buyens

Please post the URL of the problem page to this thread.

Jim Buyens
Microsoft FrontPage MVP
http://www.interlacken.com
Author of:
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|| Microsoft Office FrontPage 2003 Inside Out
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|| Web Database Development Step by Step .NET Edition
|| Microsoft FrontPage Version 2002 Inside Out
|| Faster Smarter Beginning Programming
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J

Jim Buyens

Mike said:
The URL of the problem page is

http://www.middlebass.org/LakeErieIslands.shtml

or simply http://www.lakeerieislands.us

The 7 (new) links under the bullet "Lake Erie Sites and
Pictures" are the ones causing the problem. After this
page is saved and published (in FP 2002) the bookmarks are
fine. But when I re-open the page in FP, the inks are
still there, but the bookmarks are gone and I have to re-
create them.

Thanks for any help you can give.
Click to expand...

I was able to reproduce this problem in both FP2002 and FP2003.
However, I don't see a clear cause.

One thing that seemed to help: try selecting a whole word, such as
Aerial, before creating the bookmark. This will result in no visible
change to your page but the HTML will look like:

<a name="aerial">Aerial</a>

rather than

<a name="aerial"></a>Aerial

At least in my preliminary testing, this seemed to make a difference.
Perhaps there's some piece of code that throws away empty hyperlinks
on the mistaken assumption that with nothing to click, they're
useless. However, this doesn't explain why other bookmarks such as

<a name="Welcome"></a>Welcome

persist just fine. Curious.

Jim Buyens
Microsoft FrontPage MVP
http://www.interlacken.com
Author of:
*----------------------------------------------------
|\---------------------------------------------------
|| Microsoft Office FrontPage 2003 Inside Out
||---------------------------------------------------
|| Web Database Development Step by Step .NET Edition
|| Microsoft FrontPage Version 2002 Inside Out
|| Faster Smarter Beginning Programming
|| (All from Microsoft Press)
|/---------------------------------------------------
*----------------------------------------------------
 
S

Stefan B Rusynko

Empty anchor tags are illegal html




| > The URL of the problem page is
| >
| > http://www.middlebass.org/LakeErieIslands.shtml
| >
| > or simply http://www.lakeerieislands.us
| >
| > The 7 (new) links under the bullet "Lake Erie Sites and
| > Pictures" are the ones causing the problem. After this
| > page is saved and published (in FP 2002) the bookmarks are
| > fine. But when I re-open the page in FP, the inks are
| > still there, but the bookmarks are gone and I have to re-
| > create them.
| >
| > Thanks for any help you can give.
|
| I was able to reproduce this problem in both FP2002 and FP2003.
| However, I don't see a clear cause.
|
| One thing that seemed to help: try selecting a whole word, such as
| Aerial, before creating the bookmark. This will result in no visible
| change to your page but the HTML will look like:
|
| <a name="aerial">Aerial</a>
|
| rather than
|
| <a name="aerial"></a>Aerial
|
| At least in my preliminary testing, this seemed to make a difference.
| Perhaps there's some piece of code that throws away empty hyperlinks
| on the mistaken assumption that with nothing to click, they're
| useless. However, this doesn't explain why other bookmarks such as
|
| <a name="Welcome"></a>Welcome
|
| persist just fine. Curious.
|
| Jim Buyens
| Microsoft FrontPage MVP
| http://www.interlacken.com
| Author of:
| *----------------------------------------------------
| |\---------------------------------------------------
| || Microsoft Office FrontPage 2003 Inside Out
| ||---------------------------------------------------
| || Web Database Development Step by Step .NET Edition
| || Microsoft FrontPage Version 2002 Inside Out
| || Faster Smarter Beginning Programming
| || (All from Microsoft Press)
| |/---------------------------------------------------
| *----------------------------------------------------
 
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