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InsideTGT
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I have HTML that was prepared with a 3rd party html editor which works fine when called via an -HTMLFORM external call, but when it is copied between -HTMLFORM BEGIN and -HTMLFORM END tags in a fex, I get bad results.

When done inline, does Webfocus try to parse the html before sending it on to the web server, instead of just sending what is there? If that is the case, is there an option that can be turned off, or if not, is there documentation of things to tweak when moving existing html into inline html? We're on 5.3.4.
 
Posts: 59 | Location: Minneapolis | Registered: September 01, 2004Report This Post
ptp
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What's before the -HTMLFORM BEGIN?

If there is content before the BEGIN, does this content get used within the HTML?

1) You could try

-HTMLFORM name

where name is the name of the external focexec. This calls the HTML rather thank embed it.

2) put a -RUN before the -HTMLFORM BEGIN

eg.

-RUN
-HTMLFORM BEGIN
HTML...
-HTMLFORM END

good luck,
Paul.
 
Posts: 42 | Location: UK | Registered: October 23, 2005Report This Post
Mikel
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Be sure you haven't entities (like & nbsp; for example) inside the HTML code that can be interpreted as FOCUS variables.

You must remove HTML entities or replace them like the following example:

&|nbsp; for & nbsp;


Regards,
Mikel


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Posts: 173 | Location: Madrid, Spain | Registered: May 09, 2003Report This Post
Francis Mariani
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As Mikel specified, it's most likely that ampers are causing the problem. I've been caught by this many times, moving code from an html document to a fex.


Francis


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