In SharePoint Designer 2007, we need to change the Secondary Schema to IE7 so that certain tags would render without any errors.
On the machine where SharePoint Designer 2007 is installed:
1. Browse to %SystemDrive%\Program Files\Common Files\Microsoft Shared\OFFICE12\SCHEMAS\HTML
2. Copy the IE6_0.XSD and then rename the copied file to IE7_0.XSD
3. Open the IE7_0.XSD file using Notepad or Visual Studio and edit the following lines:
<-- xsd:schema color="#ff0000" targetnamespace="'http://schemas.microsoft.com/intellisense/<--font" version="1.0"><--xsd:schema color="#ff0000" targetnamespace="'http://schemas.microsoft.com/intellisense/
vs:clientom="ie6_0dom.tlb"
vs:ishtmlschema="true"
vs:isserverschema="false"
vs:htmlflavor="4.0"
vs:MultipleScriptLanguages="true"
vs:cssschema="CSS 2.1"
vs:SuccinctFriendlyName="Internet Explorer 7">
Note: the DOM reference for client side IntelliSense (vs:clientom=”ie6_0dom.tlb) remains the same.
Save and close the file.
Next, open your registry and browse to:[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Office\12.0\Common\Schemas\] Note: This is on 32bit version machines
If you are using Windows Server 2008, 64bit machine
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Wow6432Node\Microsoft\Office\Common\Schemas
Create a new key and name it ie7_0.xsd and then create the following string values:
Value Name:- Abbrev Name
Value Data:- IE7
Value Name:- File
Value Data:- html\\ie7_0.xsd
Value Name:- Friendly Name
Value Data:- Internet Explorer 7.0
Value Name:- URI
Value Data:- http://schemas.microsoft.com/intellisense/ie7
Now, restart SharePoint Designer 2007 and click on Tools > Page Editor Options… In the Secondary Schema drop down select Internet Explorer 7.0. Click OK.
