Visual Studio deleting meta http-equiv

DSJ27FD · October 28th, 2003, 04:02 PM

Hi

Visual Studio (7.0.9466) is deleting the following line from my web page when opening it from the Solution Explorer window.

<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=iso-8859-1" />

For example:
- create an empty webpage and paste in the HTML below;
- save the page to your webserver;
- close the page in Visual Studio;
- reopen the page in Visual Studio from Solution Explorer window;
- note the <meta... line is missing!

<!DOCTYPE html
PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Strict//EN"
"http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-strict.dtd">
<html lang="en">
<head>
<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=iso-8859-1" />
<title>Blah blah</title>
</head>

<body>

</body>
</html>

Regards
Darren

sempf · November 1st, 2003, 11:03 PM

I think that is one of the many, many HTML editor bugs in 1.0. For the record, it doesn't do that in Everett (2003). Possible to upgrade? Lots of other bugs fixed too.

Bill Sempf
Effective Visual Studio .NET

shmacgregor · November 1st, 2003, 11:59 PM

I tried your problem, but a little differently, and it seems to work.

In an existing Visual Studio ARP.NET 1.0 program, while running it in Visual Studio, I added a new html file named tryit.htm.
Then I replaced the DOCTYPE line with the following 2 lines and left the HTML tag in place. Next I pasted in your meta http-equiv line.
It works fine. It compiles. It remains there after closing Visual Studio. And its still there when I open Visual Studio.

<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 1.0//EN"
"http://www.w3org/TR/REC-html40/strict.dtd">
<HTML>
<HEAD>
<META NAME="GENERATOR" Content="Microsoft Visual Studio 7.0">
<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=iso-8859-1" />
<TITLE></TITLE>
</HEAD>
<BODY>
</BODY>
</HTML>

However, I sure would NOT recommend using this file in anything running on the web.

Sandy

Sandy