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Old May 23rd 20, 12:29 AM posted to microsoft.public.windowsxp.general
Ralph Fox
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Default Automatically exported bookmarks.html file isn't showing the folder structure.

On Fri, 22 May 2020 11:16:03 +0200, R.Wieser wrote:

Hello all,

A few weeks ago I enabled the exporting of a bookmarks file as HTML, and
today for some reason I decided to open it. What I saw was that although it
contains all the links that I have, apart for for the "Bookmarks Toolbar"
group everything was left-aligned. In other words, no indentation
signifying the different subfolders I have. :-(

The above problem can be solved by changing the "DL" HTML tag into an "UL"
one. The question is, how to I change this in FF ? Is the file perhaps
generated by something inside one of the OMNI.JA files (which can be edited)
?



It was designed (by Netscape) to be an export/import format, not a format for
viewing as HTML.

Netscape would know, when you tried to import it, if it had been edited since
being exported. I have not checked if this feature has been carried forward
into Firefox.


And by the way: Why does this "bookmarks.html" file not have html, head and
body tags ? I though that that was mandatory ?



That would apply to DOCTYPE html.
This file has a different DOCTYPE.


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Ralph
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