HTML formatting is how the code appears to be structured on the page. It applies to everything from the number of spaces a tag is indented to whether a tag appears alone or is paired with a closing tag.
By default, Microsoft FrontPage preserves the formatting of existing HTML, but applies new HTML formatting to content you add to the existing page.
You have the following options for changing the default HTML format settings in FrontPage.
Preserve the formatting of existing HTML and apply new settings to new content
You can add new content to an existing web page, and ensure that the HTML of your content is formatted differently than that of the legacy code.
Example
Vicky opens a web page and sees the HTML source in the HTML pane. She notices that the author of the page used uppercase letters for the tags (such as <P>). She also notices that closing paragraph tags (</P>) were excluded. Vicky wants to add content to the page, but wants her new content to be formatted with lowercase tags (such as <p>), and she wants closing paragraph tags added automatically (</p>). However, Vicky does not want FrontPage to change the HTML formatting of the original code.
Apply an open page's HTML formatting to all new content
You can add new content to an existing web page, and ensure that your content adopts the formatting of the HTML that was on the page when it was opened.
Example
Gustavo opens an existing page. He sees that the author of the original page used uppercase tag names (such as <P>), and excluded the closing paragraph tags (</P>). Gustavo wants all content he writes in FrontPage from this point forward, including new pages, to use these same settings.
Apply HTML format changes to new and existing content
You can change the HTML format settings in FrontPage, and ensure that those settings are applied to every page you open and all new content you add.
Example
Janel wants to add content to an existing web page. Before she does this, she wants to change the HTML format settings in FrontPage so that tag names are uppercase (such as <P>). She wants FrontPage to apply her changes to the file's original content, and also to any new content she adds in the Normal pane.
Reset HTML format settings to FrontPage defaults
If you find you don't like the HTML format settings you've made, you can always revert to the original settings.
Example
Joel decides he doesn't like the changes he made to the HTML formatting options. Although he changed the formatting options numerous times, he now wants to put them back the way they were before he changed them the first time.