On Thu, 2005-09-01 at 16:04 +0800, James Elliott wrote: > Using OOo1.1.4 has just cost me a day's work - so I am not very happy!!! > > I am building a Web site and today I used the OOo1.1.4 HTML editor. > I do not like using WYSIWYG editors (like Dreamweaver, or NVU) for HTML for > a lot of good reasons ... I just want to write my own code > > I was using OOo1.1.4 because it seemed like a nice, simple text editor which > could help me set out my code in a neat and tidy way. Well, after a day's > work I finally finished what I was going to use for a template page, and > saved it as an HTML file - I also decided to save it as an OOo1.1.4 > Template. > > When I loaded the Template version of the page, I had thento save it as > something else first, before it would let me look at the HTML source code, > and when I did look at the source code it had all been altered - and - the > page did not look the same in my browser as it did before I saved the > Template. > > So then I opened the ordinary copy I had saved as an HTML file - that has > been changed too! Everything is different! Nothing works! > > Obviously, OOo1.1.4 is parsing my code and substituting its own code - it > thinks it is cleverer than I - and it has even created a new directory for > my image files and changed the src= statements accordingly. > > Can any one give me a brief account of how the OOo1.1.4 HTML editor is meant > to behave?
Hi James, There is some info on the knowledgebase about how the HTML works with OpenOffice.org. I found out that the only way to really keeps things formatted in HTML the same as in Writer was to anchor all objects to the page, otherwise they become relative and move about. Regards Jonathon --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
