FP98: Shared Borders Appear as Orphaned Pages

• Microsoft FrontPage 98 for Windows

SYMPTOMS

If you set FrontPage Explorer to show documents in hidden directories and you are using shared borders in your Web, the shared border files (Top.htm, Left.htm, Right.htm, Bottom.htm) will appear as orphaned pages in All Files view in FrontPage Explorer.

NOTE: This behavior extends to any images and Java-based programs inserted in the shared border files.

CAUSE

An orphaned page or file is a document that does not have a traceable path back to the home page in your Web. FrontPage Explorer traces this path by following the hyperlink reference (HREF) of the anchor (<A>) tag in the HTML documents in your Web. However, the shared border files are inserted by using table (<TABLE>) tags rather than anchor tags. The files show up as orphans because FrontPage Explorer cannot trace a link to the <TABLE> tags.

RESOLUTION

Although these files show as orphans, they will function correctly on the published Web.

REFERENCES

For more information about shared borders, please see the following article in the Microsoft Knowledge Base:

Q173435 FP98: What are Shared Borders and How to Enable, Disable Them

Additional query words: links hyperlinks broken orphan

Keywords          : kbdta fpexp fpviews 
Version           : WINDOWS:
Platform          : WINDOWS 
Issue type        : kbprb 

Last Reviewed: July 1, 1999