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tomasalsbro
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Sweden
818 Posts
Posted - 23 July 2001 :  07:14:12  Show Profile  Visit tomasalsbro's Homepage
Hi,
What is this code and what does it do?
I found it in a html-page.
===============
<p>
<!--webbot bot="HTMLMarkup" startspan -->
<!--webbot bot="HTMLMarkup" endspan -->
</p>
==============
Cheers / Tomas

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Spoon
Average Member

Ireland
507 Posts
Posted - 23 July 2001 :  07:23:59  Show Profile  Visit Spoon's Homepage  Send Spoon an ICQ Message
quote:

Hi,
What is this code and what does it do?
I found it in a html-page.
===============
<p>
<!--webbot bot="HTMLMarkup" startspan -->
<!--webbot bot="HTMLMarkup" endspan -->
</p>
==============
Cheers / Tomas

!-Keep distance in traffic-!
www.whiplash.se
www.whiplash.pp.se


It does nothing. The "<!--" and "-->" tell a browser not to read the code enclosed in those tags. Its usually just to help people find their way around code.
eg.
<!-- Start my table here -->


Regards,

Spoon, (ya all love me right?)
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sogoth
New Member

United Kingdom
73 Posts
Posted - 23 July 2001 :  07:24:02  Show Profile  Visit sogoth's Homepage
They are HTML comments.

you can write little messages to yourself or anyone that's going to read your code by placing it between the <!-- and --> markers

<p>
<!-- people will not see this ->
but they will see this
</p>

hope that helps
Paul

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tomasalsbro
Average Member

Sweden
818 Posts
Posted - 23 July 2001 :  11:10:41  Show Profile  Visit tomasalsbro's Homepage
Well guys!
The older you are - the more you realise how little you know!

Thanks / Tomas

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Davio
Development Team Member

Jamaica
12217 Posts
Posted - 23 July 2001 :  11:23:49  Show Profile
Those tags are used by the FrontPage WebBot. The webbot uses comment tags like those to read and write certain code to the html page.

- David
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tomasalsbro
Average Member

Sweden
818 Posts
Posted - 23 July 2001 :  16:00:19  Show Profile  Visit tomasalsbro's Homepage
quote:

Those tags are used by the FrontPage WebBot. The webbot uses comment tags like those to read and write certain code to the html page.

- David


David - Then I should leave them where they are?
Tomas

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Doug G
Support Moderator

USA
6493 Posts
Posted - 23 July 2001 :  17:16:40  Show Profile
I'd recommend a general rule don't delete things you don't know what they are.


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gor
Retired Admin

Netherlands
5511 Posts
Posted - 23 July 2001 :  17:26:43  Show Profile  Visit gor's Homepage
quote:

Hi,
What is this code and what does it do?
I found it in a html-page.
===============
<p>
<!--webbot bot="HTMLMarkup" startspan -->
<!--webbot bot="HTMLMarkup" endspan -->
</p>


This "Webbot" (nothing more than a couple of custom tags in the page) can be used in Frontpage to tell Frontpage to stay away from the code between those tags.
If you still use Frontpage to edit that page, better leave them in, in you use a different editor and don't plan to edit the page with Frontpage anymore it is perfectly safe to delete them.
See here for a complete list of the Webbots Frontpage supports.

Pierre
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