why changing html tags to text?

As I said: "You'll need to switch to source mode or write a plugin that inserts the html that you want. "

I have the same problem with IE and asp pages. The source code in the editor shows the correct html tags, the text form shows the correct formatting - without html tags displayed as such. When I trap the sql insert / update command in the save to database page the 'querystring' shows the html tags - but the source code shows that it has already been converted to ascii type tags.

Has anybody found a fix for this since this makes the app. useless.

<p>This might be the solution (for asp pages, IE browser, SQL 2000/2005 - .net
seems to have a built in function?):</p>
<p>The boss (FCK) pointed out that the sample pages use Server.HTMLEncode to
display the html - but we need to decode - with asp, IE a simple rewrite of
Server.Decode in the page that receives the data to save to the db gives an
error that it does not recognise this function.</p>
<p>One could save the text as in into an sql 2000/2005 db and present it with
server.HTMLEncode - for me that gets messy because there are too many pages to
change, I would prefer to have it stored in its intended format since that what
is done currently......</p>
<p>So, a google search revealed someone who has been there before;</p>
<p>this guy / link was credited with this "solution" (?)</p>
<p><a href="http://flangy.com/dev/asp/urldecode.html">
http://flangy.com/dev/asp/urldecode.html</a></p>
<p>His fix is shown in <span style="background-color: #00FF00">green highlight</span></p>
<p>This takes care of using a CleanforSQL type function to tidy up the "'" that
sql 2000/2005 does not deal with. The full code that I used on my 'save' page
nests the decode inside the CleanforSQL - so you can strip out the
<span style="background-color: #FFFF00">CleanforSQL</span> if you don't need
that. I also took out the &lt;%option explicit%&gt; for the live page since it bombed
on the live server with a 500 error (no error details are revealed on the live
server).</p>
<p>&lt;%@ CodePage=65001 Language="VBScript"%&gt;<br>
<br>
&lt;!--#INCLUDE FILE="dbConn.asp"--&gt;<br>
<br>
&lt;%Dim strSQL, sForm<br>
<br>
<span style="background-color: #00FF00">' An inverse to Server.URLEncode<br>
function URLDecode(str)<br>
dim re<br>
set re = new RegExp<br>
<br>
</span><span style="background-color: #00FF00">str = Replace(str, "+", " ")<br>
<br>
</span><span style="background-color: #00FF00">re.Pattern = "%([0-9a-fA-F]{2})"<br>
</span><span style="background-color: #00FF00">re.Global = True<br>
</span><span style="background-color: #00FF00">URLDecode = re.Replace(str,
GetRef("URLDecodeHex"))<br>
end function<br>
<br>
' Replacement function for the above<br>
function URLDecodeHex(match, hex_digits, pos, source)<br>
</span><span style="background-color: #00FF00">URLDecodeHex = chr("&amp;H" &amp;
hex_digits)<br>
end function</span><br>
'===================================================<br>
<br>
<span style="background-color: #FFFF00">Function CleanForSQL(strValue)<br>
'create another copy<br>
Dim strTemp<br>
</span><span style="background-color: #FFFF00">strtemp = strValue<br>
'clean out single quotes<br>
Do until InStr(1, strTemp, "'") = 0<br>
</span><span style="background-color: #FFFF00">strTemp = left(strTemp, InStr(1,
strTemp, "'") -1) &amp; _<br>
</span><span style="background-color: #FFFF00">Right(strTemp, Len(strTemp) -
InStr(1, strTemp, "'"))<br>
Loop<br>
<br>
'return the clean string<br>
</span><span style="background-color: #FFFF00">CleanForSQL = strTemp<br>
End Function</span><br>
<br>
For Each sForm in Request.Form <br>
<br>
strSQL = "UPDATE tblCricketFixtures SET " &amp; _<br>
" Report = '" &amp;<span style="background-color: #FFFF00"> CleanForSQL(</span><span style="background-color: #00FF00">URLDecode(Request.Form(sForm))</span><span style="background-color: #FFFF00">)</span>
&amp; "'" &amp; _<br>
" WHERE ID = " &amp; Request("FixtureID") &amp; " AND Innings = 1"<br>
<br>
<br>
'Response.Write strSQL<br>
'response.end<br>
<br>
dbConn.execute strSQL<br>
<br>
Next<br>
<br>
Response.Redirect "MatchReport.asp?FixtureID=" &amp; Request("FixtureID") &amp;
"&amp;Category=" &amp; Request("Category") &amp; "&amp;League=" &amp; Request("League") &amp; "&amp;ATeam="
&amp; Request("ATeam") &amp; "&amp;Innings=1"<br>
%&gt;<br>
&lt;!--#Include file="DBConnClose.asp"--&gt;<br>
<br>
&nbsp;</p>

Oh dear, I don't understand about formatting on this forum!
If that whole reply is pasted in to an html editor it will display as the page was intended to.
Sorry about that.

Hmmm... even pasting the code has a glitch - there is an extraneous ";" after the flangy link which needs to come out of the closing </a> tag.
If anyone can post the reply to make it readable...

If you are in the design mode then you can't write html tags, it doesn't make sense.
You'll need to switch to source mode or write a plugin that inserts the html that you want.

hi
is it possible to open editor in source mode by default,if yes then how do we do it

thanks