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[bartainer]

Hello again! I found this odd looking code in my html style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: Arial"><st1:City w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on"> and I have no idea what it is?

Okay, I know what Font-family is (deprecated and can de eliminated)however; I am unfamiliar with the rest after Arial. This code was inserted after I created a custom contact form using PHP to process. Keep in mind, my other forms do not have this strange non-html.

Ron

[tedster]

It looks like an xml tag from Microsoft Office - a smart tag in particular (that's what the "st" would stand for).

[bartainer]

Tedster;

Again, your knowledge is passed on!

Okay, it's a smart tag. How is this inserted if I'm using Dreamweaver? I did not insert this tag and Dreamweaver (I don't think) certainly would not insert this tag? Should I eliminate the tag? I did on one site and no errors were presented.

Ron

[tedster]

Yes, just zap it. Somewhere you picked it up - who knows where, right? Did you adapt some content created in MS Publisher originally - or any other Office application?

Because it's a one-off situation, you may never pin it down, but as long as it's not in your regular workflow, it doesn't really matter. You're right to assume that DW is not the source.

[bartainer]

I have no idea where this tag orginated? All I did was create a form (radio buttons and check boxes) in DW and poof, the tags were there! No kidding! Here is part of the code from a client's web site: <st1:City w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">. Very strange to me! I am not an expert by no means, however my tutor is and he knew what "st" is, but the rest is foriegn.

Ron

[bartainer]

Tedster;

Is this a fact to turn off smart tags? <meta name="MSSmartTagsPreventParsing" content="TRUE"> Should I insert this code in "every" site that I build?

Ron

[tedster]

You can if you feel particularly worried, but after the big flap that IE smart tags caused in the beginning, they are not currrently implemented in IE -- and Microsoft would be foolish (to the point of major self-injury) to try it any time soon.

[labeler2003]

I use Dreamwaver 4-10 hours a day and have not seen smart tags appear by themselves.

However, I do see them frequently appear in my code. I do a lot of cut and pasting from Microsoft Word. My clients send text created in Word, which loads the text with tags. I usually copy it to Notepad first, which cleans it up. But sometimes I forget (or I'm lost in the ozone or something like that) and it get's pasted into Dreamweaver, blogger.com, or whatever I'm using--and along come a load of tags.

So, if at anytime in the past something had been copied from a Microsoft product, and then maybe deleted or relocated, the tags would be left behind in the web page.

[tedster]

It's amazing to me how many emails I open in my non-MS email client that show those danged MS Office smart tags. I even have a client who sends out 50,000 plus mass emails with smart tag xml in them! I've been sending them screenshots, etc, but they still continue, even after other good clients broguht it to their attention.

[bartainer]

Does Notebook eliminate all the junk, including smart tags?