Pass through HTML during publish

You can pass through HTML from a CuteSITE Builder page to exported HTML files. This capability lets you enrich your files using any HTML output features that CuteSITE Builder does not currently provide. HTML code within a CuteSITE Builder page body is added to the HTML created when you export the page, and browsers treat both exported and passed-through HTML codes exactly the same way.

Within CuteSITE Builder pages, include HTML tags (plus any text they enclose) as text, just as you would in HTML source files. Unless you add font-related HTML, text in this material will be exported using the same font and formatting characteristics as the text in the CuteSITE Builder paragraph that immediately preceded it. You can add explicit HTML tags within the HTML sections to override these inherited font settings. You can continue to use CuteSITE Builder commands to create links and insert images within these HTML sections.
Enclose each group of HTML tags with the special pass-through strings <| and |>. This material must be in a paragraph separate from other text.
Export your file (or portions of it) to HTML using the command File > Preview Web Site or File > Publish Web Site.

Material within the delimiters, including both CuteSITE Builder links and images and the HTML code you have added, will be passed through to the HTML output files without any alteration. Both of these commands let you view the resulting Web site in your browser, so you can confirm the results are what you intended.

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Notes

Text within HTML delimiters is exported with the characteristics of the immediately preceding text paragraph, including indentation or bulleted list settings if any. You can override these inherited font characteristics (family, size, style, and color) using explicit HTML tags. However, CuteSITE Builder alignment settings such as indented and bulleted paragraphs cannot be overridden using HTML. If you do not want such settings to affect HTML sections, change the paragraphs immediately preceding them.
To make it easy to identify the pass-through HTML code in a page, it’s recommended that you format the pass-through HTML in a distinctive color or font. This is purely a visual aid; CuteSITE Builder font or formatting changes within delimiters are not exported.
The two-character delimiters, <| and |>, must not contain spaces. For example, < | (bracket space pipe) does not function as a valid delimiter.
If the pass-through HTML includes file names that have spaces, you may receive an error message that the file name is illegal when you publish the Web site file. You will need to rename the files and remove the spaces in order to publish the Web site file. (Some provider's FTP servers do not accept files that have spaces in the file names.)