Front page layout gone haywire

tabs, tabs everywhere I see tabs

[claimsweb]

Updating one of my sites today in FP when something went badly wrong and Ive spend the rest of the day trying to put it right.

I was editing some text when the hour glass appeared in a long loop and then when it finished its run the whole layout of the page went haywire. Yellow html tabs everywhere that totally screw the layout of the site in the "normal" view window. Every html element seems to be showing in this way on each page.

The previewed version is still the same but with the normal editing window showing such a messy layout I darent do anything with it in case I totally ruin the published version.

Ive tried re-starting and one or two other housekeeping bits n pieces but the damage is here to stay by the looks of it.

Has anyone come across this in FP and has anyone any idea how to resolve it?

Yours
A quivering nervous so called website designing wreck
C

[troels nybo nielsen]

First: do you know anything about html code?

[rogerd]

If you were editing your local copy, try opening up the live site and publishing to your hard drive. That should get you back to normal quickly if you didn't have a ton of work invested in local changes. I'm not using the latest version, so I don't know if they have improved this scheme or not.

I can always spot a FP user by the multiple folders on their HD: mysite, mysite1, mysite2... usually the result of a corrupted local site and republishing from the remote site.

[Marketing Guy]

Ah thats just a feature you must have inadvertantly turned on! :)

Gimmee a sec and ill find out how to turn it off....

Added: View Menu > Reveal Tags (off)

Scott :D

[edited by: Marketing_Guy at 5:20 pm (utc) on Oct. 20, 2003]

[claimsweb]

Hi

I am no html expert but I know a little - usually more than enough to cope with FP.

Following your advice rogerd I tried publishing from the web back to my HD but it the layout problem remains - tabs all over the darn place. Im convinced Ive triggered a so called "user friendly" editing page that allows you to click on the html tab and then edit the snippet of code attaching to that element on the page.

As I say the problem for me is that all my tables are now out of sync and there is no way I can live with this layout.

Anything else to suggest?

Thanks for the input so far
C

[rogerd]

Marketing Guy may be right - you have just turned on some kind of viewing option rather than spawning a bunch of code. Go through your view and/or options choices. Good luck!

[Marketing Guy]

The keyboard shortcut for that is Ctrl Backslash, so it's possible you hit that! ;)

Scott

[troels nybo nielsen]

I'd suggest that you make a copy of that page with another name, and in one of those pages you start deleting tables one by one in the html code.

[claimsweb]

Hello again

Sorry for the delay in responding - early close for me yesterday (Parents evening at school - you know how it is)

Marketing_guy you have cracked it! The "reveal tags" function was the source of my misery and how the hell I switched it on I'll never know. But I will know what to do if it happens again.

Many thanks for all your input on this guys (or gals)

C

[troels nybo nielsen]

> thanks

This is WW, and Scott and I are just following the traditions set by Brett and the veteran members. (One of whom is rogerd.) You really ought to direct your thanks at them.

This event might motivate you to learn more about html. Which should not stop you from using FP, but in critical situations it is a really big advantage to be able to understand the naked html code.