Switching to design mode in VS2005 and repeaters

[TheLongshot]

I just recently converted a project from VS 2003 to VS 2005. The
problem I am having is that I have a lot of tables that are built as
repeaters in the code, like this one:

<asp:repeater id="rptrprerequ isites" runat="server">
<HeaderTemplate >
<table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0"
class="mainCont entTable" ID="Table23">
<tr>
<td width="0%" class="tableHea d3">&nbsp;</td>
<td width="60%" class="tableHea d3">Course Name</td>
<td width="25%" class="tableHea d3">Course #</td>
<td width="15%" class="tableHea d3">Required</td>
</tr>
</HeaderTemplate>
<ItemTemplate >
<tr>
<td width="0%" class="row2">&n bsp;</td>
<td width="60%" class="redEmp">
<%#DataBinder.E val(Container.D ataItem, "CourseTitle")% ></td>
<td width="25%" class="row2"<%# DataBinder.Eval (Container.Data Item,
"CourseNumber") %></td>
<td width="15%" align="center" class="redEmp">
<%#DataBinder.E val(Container.D ataItem, "Required") %></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td colspan="6" class="rowDivid er" height="1"></td>
</tr>
</ItemTemplate>
<FooterTemplate >
</table>
</FooterTemplate>
</asp:repeater>

The problem is, I can't change into design mode because the editor
views this as invalid HTML because of the odd placement of the table
tags. How can I get around this?

Jason

[TheLongshot]

I checked it again. The problem comes when you have it inside another
table element. VS seems to think that that is the closing tag for the
table element on the outside, rather than part of the the Repeater
code.

Jason

Peter Bromberg [ C# MVP ] wrote:

I just pasted your sample code into a new page and the only thing I had to do
to get it to switch to design mode was to add an HTML and a BODY tagset.

All you have to do is pay attention to the "Can not Switch" errors and fix
them. Alternatively, I believe there are settings in Tools/Options that allow
you to turn off HTML strict checking, but I'd recommend that instead, you
make sure your HTML Is compliant.

Peter

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"TheLongsho t" wrote:

I just recently converted a project from VS 2003 to VS 2005. The
problem I am having is that I have a lot of tables that are built as
repeaters in the code, like this one:

<asp:repeater id="rptrprerequ isites" runat="server">
<HeaderTemplate >
<table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0"
class="mainCont entTable" ID="Table23">
<tr>
<td width="0%" class="tableHea d3"</td>
<td width="60%" class="tableHea d3">Course Name</td>
<td width="25%" class="tableHea d3">Course #</td>
<td width="15%" class="tableHea d3">Required</td>
</tr>
</HeaderTemplate>
<ItemTemplate >
<tr>
<td width="0%" class="row2"</td>
<td width="60%" class="redEmp">
<%#DataBinder.E val(Container.D ataItem, "CourseTitle")% ></td>
<td width="25%" class="row2"<%# DataBinder.Eval (Container.Data Item,
"CourseNumber") %></td>
<td width="15%" align="center" class="redEmp">
<%#DataBinder.E val(Container.D ataItem, "Required") %></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td colspan="6" class="rowDivid er" height="1"></td>
</tr>
</ItemTemplate>
<FooterTemplate >
</table>
</FooterTemplate>
</asp:repeater>

The problem is, I can't change into design mode because the editor
views this as invalid HTML because of the odd placement of the table
tags. How can I get around this?

Jason