OO Hangs On Web Page Loading

[jmrathbun]

I've noticed repeatedly in recent years that OO hangs when I try to open certain .htm files for editing. Here is some offending code:

<FORM ACTION="https://www.paypal.com/cgi-bin/webscr" METHOD="POST">
<INPUT TYPE=HIDDEN NAME="cmd" VALUE="_s-xclick">
<INPUT TYPE=HIDDEN NAME="hosted_button_id" VALUE="A7H6AKKYXTHEJ">
<DIV ALIGN=CENTER>
<P><INPUT TYPE=IMAGE NAME="submit" SRC="https://www.paypal.com/en_US/i/btn/btn_donateCC_LG.gif" WIDTH=147 HEIGHT=47 ALIGN=BOTTOM>
<IMG SRC="https://www.paypal.com/en_US/i/scr/pixel.gif" NAME="graphics2" ALIGN=BOTTOM WIDTH=2 HEIGHT=2 BORDER=0>
</P>
</DIV>
</FORM>

[acknak]

Sorry. OO Writer is very limited in how it handles html and web content.

I don't see this changing any time soon.

[jmrathbun]

Is there a good freeware (preferably open source) WYSIWYG web editor I can substitute?

[acknak]

Sorry, I'm not really up on that. You can try a search here, this question comes up often and I remember seeing some recommendations, I just don't remember what they were.

My (limited) understanding is that people who do lots of web page construction avoid WYSIWYG editors and work with the html directly in a plain text editor.

[floris v]

You can try Kompozer, it's fairly simple but kept up to date. AOO still works with HTML 3.x, that says enough.

[jmrathbun]

Thanks, Floris! I hand code when needed but a lot of routine stuff is easier to let the software do.