I used a table snippet, but why does the table appear half way down the page?

June 12, 2007

The HTML snippets were designed for HTML pages, but it is possible to use them in styled text pages as well. This is likely what you have done.

Styled text pages were not intended for HTML. Realmac likely included those for people who didn’t know HTML and didn’t want to know HTML. It’s a nice option as it allows anyone to put text into a web page. The problem is, some of you were sticking HTML in there too ;-)

When RapidWeaver goes to publish the page, it has to interpret what you wrote and convert it to HTML. If you’ve already written HTML, it can’t necessarily see that. Since you used a styled text pages, it’s assuming what you wrote is exactly that… text. So it will interpret your HTML in ways you likely did not intend and make things look very strange in some cases.

To combat this, Realmac added an option in the Format menu to tell the styled text page to overlook and refrain from interpreting your HTML code. That option is named Ignore Formatting. To fix your table then, use this feature. Here’s how:

• Edit your page and select the all the HTML code that produces your table.
• Select Format, Ignore Formatting from the menu bar. This will color the background area of the code to indicate formatting has been ignored.
• Preview your page to ensure you applied the command to the entire table. If not, go back into edit mode and fix it until you have.

That’s it. Your table should now display correctly within a styled text page. This procedure should be used for any HTML used in a styled text page by the way. If you do not apply that command to your HTML, RW will insert extra line breaks into the code that you likely did not intend.