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[Desperate]

I have been using a script for a navigational menu.

The problem is that dreamweaver insists the below tag is invalid.

<ul id="foldinglist" style="display:none" style=&{head};>.

When i save the page - dreamweaver changes the tag to this

<ul id="foldinglist" style="display:none">

I know there is a way to stop dreamweaver doing this but i would like to keep the clean up html default option when saving files for other reasons. So...
Can anyone tell me what is wrong with <ul id="foldinglist" style="display:none" style=&{head};> ?

Because dreamweaver changes the code - the result is that the script does not work properly in some browsers.

If you need to see the full script i am using, it is located at - http://www.hostcompanies.com/menutest2.htm

[jasong]

1. open up dreamweaver
2. copy the html
3. go into notepad (the real mans tool)
4. paste it into notepad
5. change:
<ul id="foldinglist" style="display:none">

to:

<ul id="foldinglist" style="display:none" style=&{head};>.

6. save it as whatever.htm
7. its done


BTW- i dont know if this is an error or not, but in:
<ul id="foldinglist" style="display:none" style=&{head};>.
is there suposed to be a period after the ">"?
Thats what might be wrong.

[Desperate]

I cannot do it in notepad... i will be placing the menu on virtually all pages of my site.. so whenever i update my site with dreamweaver it will overwrite the code.

If i turn off the overwriting element in dreamweaver then in future cases of invalid html.. i will not be able to see.

[serialbeggar]

(Not knowing what "&{head};" is ) ... how about this:

<ul id="foldinglist" style="display:none; &{head};">

[CyberAlien]

in dreamweaver there is code rewriting option or something like that. you need to disable it.

[stripeyteapot]

Change to expert mode

<ul id="foldinglist" style="display:none" style=&{head};>

First style, you are not ending it and then in the second ending it un necessarily, try....

<ul id="foldinglist" style="display:none;" style=&{head}>