Editing within <ASP:panel> tags in design view

[Dennis Blondell]

Hi, I have tried sending this post to the main FP NG with no help so I hope
I will have better luck here as it is really a programming question.

How come ASP.NET panels can't be edited in FP2003 design view. In FP2k I
could at least
apply styles and font colours etc to those funny little <?> boxes and the
html within those unknown tags. I find I have to edit it all in code view
now with FP2003. I have to search through all the
html to find a specific HTML tag or area I want to edit as when I click on
it in
design view the whole ASPanel's code is highlighted. What a mission to
just
add some colour or style. The panel is quite large (about 300 lines) so not
a quick job to find lots of little bits of stuffed up formatting that my
programmer has left for me to fix. Grumble, grumble, mutter, mutter.

Any workaround for this?

Please help me

Dennis

 

[MD WebsUnlimited.com]

Hi Dennis,

It is actually easier to accomplish in FP3 than in FP2K2 using the quicktag
bar along with the style toolbar.

There is no need to go to code view as you can edit the tag using the quick
tag bar, located above the design window.

 

[Dennis Blondell]

Wow, that was quick thanks Mike, but not the right answer for me.

The quick tag bar is great but stops at the <ASPanel> tag. It doesn't give
me any other tags until after </ASPanel> 300 or so lines later and then
following is another <ASPanel> tag with the same problem. There are other
tags that do this also and it is really enjoying as in the panels on one
page are forms that my programmer didn't adjust for Netscape users and need
a lot of work. Throughout the site there are so many pages that I can't
fully edit due to this problem. The site is nearly fully aspx and ascx. I
got FP03 to help me out with .NET but finding this a real hindrance.

 

[MD WebsUnlimited.com]

Dennis,

You may wish to consider using http://www.asp.net/webmatrix

 

[Dennis Blondell]

Yeah, I have actually go it (build 812) but my programmer said there were
some issues with Webmatrix and the way it formats the html anyway, tables, I
think. He had some trouble with it until he got Visual Studio .NET. I just
looked and there doesn't seem to be the Webmatrix next release available yet
that is supposed to fix those issues. Moving on to Webmatrix or Visual
Studio is a little scary for a poor humble web designer like me and wanted
to avoid it until I built up more programming skills as the interface is
designed for the programmer in mind. In Webmatrix it is hard to see why some
formatting won't display in Netscape. In FP it is easier and most
importantly, I am used to it. I just don't understand why FP03 won't allow
me to edit some of the obvious html in design view.

Thanks for the suggestions