Using delimiters

As already noted, delimiters tell GoLive's text macro interpreter where the content of a text macro starts and ends. You can use any character as a delimiter, as long as you follow one basic rule: The delimiter may not occur in the macro content itself. You can even use blank space and carriage returns to insert structured text and multi-line code, respectively.

Here is an example of improper delimiter usage:

    image "<img "src=../GIFS/???.GIF" width="20" height="20">"

This macro definition won't produce a usable result because it uses double quotes as delimiters. The double quotes are already used to enclose attributes in the HTML element definition, so GoLive will only insert the text before the second double quote character. The result would be:

    image "<img

Note: As a general rule, avoid using characters that are typically used as structural elements within the source code syntax, such as the less than (<) and greater than signs (>) enclosing HTML tags.