>>>
>>>Your Friend is correct. ASP mixed with raw HTML is S L O O O O W!
>>>It does get to be a pain getting " correct. In you example you don't need quotes. The only time you need quotes in your example is if there is a space in the href. response. write "< a href=myasp.asp >" works just fine, but response. write "< a href=my no one asp.asp >" won't work. reponse. write ""< a href=my no one asp.asp >"" will work.
>>>
>>>As I said it does get to be a pain, but the speed difference is worth it and you do get use to it.
>>>
>>>You can all so do stuff like qt=chr(34) then use &qt& where you want as a quote.
>>>
>>>HTH
>>>Jeff
>>
>>Thanks for the great advice! However, does this mean that I don't have to use raw html for the < html >, < body > ,etc. tags - that I can include them in the response . write as well?
>>
>>Ramon Carlos
>
>Well I guess, Here is an example.
>
>

<%
>cr=chr(13)
>response.write "< html >< head >"&cr&_
>"< title >Tech Comm Art Work Search Engine< /title >< /head >"&cr&_
>"< body background=/images/backgrnd.gif bgcolor=#FFFFFF >"&cr&_
>"< Center >"&cr&"< font color=#000080 size=7 >< em >"&cr&_
>"< strong >Art Log Search Engine< /strong >< /em >< /font >"&cr
>
>the &_ is a continuation of the response.write this is faster than issuing<BR> a Write for each line. The down side to this is if you view source the code is<BR>just one long line and hard to read. That is why I do a CR=chr(13),<BR> saves me some typing and by &cr&_ continues the response.write but cause the<BR> generated source code to break where I want so the view source is easy to read.
>
>The pain comes in when you want to write a variable that<BR>has spaces and needs quotes around it to work such as a<BR>value of a button.
>
>I want my button to say "Submit Request" in raw html it would look like
>< input type=submit name=new VALUE="Submit Request" >
>in a response.write it would look like
>response.write "< input type=submit name=new VALUE=""Submit Request"" >"
>if a had a variable to put in a button it would have to look like
>var="Submit Request"
>response.write "< input type=submit name=new VALUE="""&var&""" >"
>

>HTH
>Jeff

Just a quick note (hint) i discoverd and painstakingly had to fix. I work with a mix of VI (6) and FP98. When you do a page in VI then go into FP to edit it, you will more than likely lose formating, tags will be inserted and/or misinterpreted. Just yesterday, I spent an hour fixing a table within a form that FP messed up in the beautiful way it does. It had moved the table tags, the form closing tag was befora any of the visible form fields, which were, to put it bluntly, left out to dry.

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