bug: extra HTML tags appearing in my code

[Jim Byrne]

Jeff,

You are right - the page had been edited remotely and there was a missing
tag.

How do I turn this 'feature' off?

Thanks,
Jim

on 2/8/01 2:31 pm, Jeff Imig at jeffimig at ilstu.edu wrote:

>> I clicked the edit button and confirmed that a </tr> tag had been added to
>> the bottom of the text in the edit window. I took it out and submitted the
>> page. Still no text. I clicked the edit button and the tag had been added
>> again.
>> 
>> I have noticed this behaviour before - with other tags being added to the
>> bottom of my HTML in the edit form - but this time it's serious. Is this a
>> known bug. How do I fix it?
>> 
>> Thanks,
>> Jim
> 
> 
> Jim,
> One of our users just had a very similar problem (I'd say the
> same problem, but nothing is ever the same).  The problem was that
> they had accidentally deleted part of a table data tag (just the
> concluding &gt;  of a TD... Manila tries to complete the table
> structure,  but no matter what the page was blank.  I found the
> offending part by pasting the page in BBEdit & digging there.
> 
> I used to have this a lot myself until I trained myself to be
> hyper about knowing the tags were right befor clicking submit.
> 
> The auto completion that Manila does is a mixed blessing, I think.
> 
> 
> Jeff.

 
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