Editing in FrontPage

You do not need to know how to code in HTML to use FrontPage. While you edit pages as you would in a word processor — typing and formatting text, and adding graphics, tables, and other page elements — FrontPage adds the HTML tags in the background. You simply edit your pages in Design view.

However, if you want to familiarize yourself with HTML or edit HTML code directly, you can also use Code view, which displays the HTML code of a Web page, or Split view, which displays both Code view and Design view simultaneously.

If you are familiar with HTML, you can display the HTML tags in Code view and you can write and edit the HTML tags yourself. With the create and maintain optimized code options available in FrontPage, you can create clean HTML, and easily remove any code that you do not want.

In FrontPage, you can use Extensible Markup Language (XML) to complement, rather than replace, your HTML. You can view or edit files, apply standard formatting to the structure of code in XML files, view the XML tree, and create custom displays of XML data on Web pages. For example, you can create a Web page that displays data from an XML file, format that data, and apply filtering, sorting, and conditional formatting to display the data the way you want.