Object tag going into design mode screws up params

[John Holmes]

This, I fear, is related to the fact that Visual Studio.NET reformats the
HTML when going into design mode and then back out. I have an object tag
that is using an object provided by a 3rd party vendor to use their
signature pad. I set the <PARAM .. > tags and if I need to go into design
mode it gets rid of the <PARAM> tags that I put in and puts every possible
PARAM tag in with settings it gets from somewhere. This is very annoying.

I asked on this list about a month ago if there was a way to stop the
reformatting of HTML and was told that wouldn't be available until next
version next year. Is it the same situation with the object/param problem?

The reformatting is a major problem for me and others I've talked to. That's
the main reason I never liked Front Page or other editors that do that and
why I had liked Visual Studio. There are options to turn it on or off in
VS.NET, but they don't work with HTML editing. If someone has a suggestion
for solving this, I'd love to hear it.

Thanks,

John Holmes

 

[Steven Cheng[MSFT]]

Hi John,

From your description, you are suffering the known issue of the VS.NET's
current version. The problem is just ocurring when we switching between
Design-View and Html-View. That cause the Content in the Html-View(html
source) be reformated with some unexpected elements. As for the <object ..>
tag you mentioned, I think because the IDE have no idea of what kind of the
certain tags in Html-View actually is, it'll treat them as the same( just a
<tag> ) and will auto-format it when switching from design-view. Also,
there does have been many existing posts or cases on the same issue and the
problem won't be fixed until the next release of VS.NET(Whidbey).
In addition, I think you may also have a search in the former threads in
this or the vs.net group to see whether there are any informative
workarounds. Also, since this is a known issue, I apologize for any
inconvenience brings to you. Thanks for your understanding.

Regards,

Steven Cheng
Microsoft Online Support

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