Using FrontPage Code in an Expression Web Site

Though the majority of FrontPage proprietary features are absent from Expression Web because they don’t create valid code, there might be a few occasions when you will want to use one or two of these features. For example, one that doesn’t have any negative aspects such as not being cross-browser compatible or requiring anything special on the server is the FrontPage Included Content Web component. This Web component simply copied all of the content between the <body> and </body> tags of one page in a Web site and wrote it into another page or set of pages. It was similar to a server-side include but worked at save time instead.

This feature was good for actions such as inserting a menu into a number ...

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