Secure Order Form

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Judith Gibson

I recently (August) upgraded my web site from FrontPage 98 to FP 2002. My
order form is on a secure server. Since upgrading I have problems publishing
changes to my order form. Something about the closing instruction that sends
the order information to me (/form) being up near the top and again at the
bottom of the page. My ISP told me to go into html view and remove the
(/form) near the top as it should only be at the bottom. But when I remove
and save, I watch it reappear automatically before I publish. Then when I
publish and run a test order, the "submit" button does not work to sent the
encrypted order information to me. I am losing orders over this.

Any suggestions why the (/form) reappears automatically? Each time I revise
the order form I have to have my ISP go in and remove it.

Thanks
Judith

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John Clark

I've only seen this in FP 2002 when there is invalid code at design time
(which can happen with dynamic pages).

I have never seen this with FrontPage 2003, but since you just upgraded to
2002, I guess you are a little stuck.

What you can do is surround your
<form>
all your code is in here.
</form> code with the following:

<!--webbot bot="HTMLMarkup" startspan -->
<form>
all of your code is in here.
</form>
<!--webbot bot="HTMLMarkup" endspan -->

But that will prevent you from editing in design view as well. That means
you should remove this code and make changes in design view, then remove the
extra </form> tag and put this webbot code back in and then save the page.

HTH
 
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David Berry

This is happening because FrontPage sees the element as being in the wrong
place, i.e. incorrect HTML code and it attempts to move it. Do you have a
URL we could look at to see where the tags are placed?
 
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