SPAN tags disappearing

I am using an older version of RH (X4) but I was hoping
someone could help. I have a HTM file that has some 
tags at the bottom of the document. When I view the HTM file in
Notepad the tags are there. When I import the HTM into RH as a
topic and look at the TrueCode the tags are not displayed. I use
the ID on the span tags for some scripting and need the tags.
How/why is TrueCode hiding/removing these tags?

Hi and welcome to the forums.
This has been my bone of contention with RoboHelp forever.
Each new version, I download the trial version and check to see if
this has been fixed. I am still using version 2000. The good news
is that it looks like it was fixed in version 6.
This tag removal is done in the WYSIWYG editor, so if you
don't open the topic in that editor you can preserve your SPAN IDs.
What I do is make a copy of the tags and place themas a comments in
the True Code editor, then if I do edit in the WYSIWYG editor, I
only need to open up the True Code and copy and paste from the
comments and close the topic.
Good luck,
John

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Hi,
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