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[Dimps]

I use Frontpage and nearly all of my pagess have "inherited" SPAN tags such as the follwing:

<span lang="en-gb">?</span>

The only thing that these tags appear to be doing is to bloat my pages, and if I delete them they simply reappear when I next load the page in my editor. How can I get rid of them once and for all? What purpose do they serve? Is the world really round?

[HCN-Northern]

frontpage software.. thats probably your problem as i think it automatically puts them in

you could try a different software like http://editra.org/download

and also the info about span tags http://www.w3schools...gs/tag_span.asp

[Saint]

 HCN-Northern, on 19 January 2012 - 10:36 AM, said:

frontpage software.. thats probably your problem... and also the info about span tags http://www.w3schools...gs/tag_span.asp

Yes. Some software doesn't care about bloat. Just like the span tags are a sort-of good idea, so long as you don't mind bloat. (Bloat is really only bad news if you intend to hand-craft your code, when it obscures things.)

Be careful about w3schools. Their information is not always 100% accurate. Some experts call them w3fools.

[HCN-Northern]

 sours, on 19 January 2012 - 07:28 PM, said:

Be careful about w3schools. Their information is not always 100% accurate. Some experts call them w3fools.

yeah i couldnt be bothered to look it up in google and had that link open already for something else on w3

[Dimps]

Thanks guys. I haven't got round to migrating away from Frontpage yet (see my seperate postings) but SPAN tags are yet another reason why I have to do it ...