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FP2000: Shared Borders Appear as Unlinked Pages

Article ID: 198157

Article Last Modified on 12/2/2000

Microsoft FrontPage 2000 Standard Edition

This article was previously published under Q198157

SYMPTOMS

If you set FrontPage 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, and Bottom.htm) appear as unlinked pages in Reports view in FrontPage Explorer.

CAUSE

An unlinked 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 unlinked, because FrontPage Explorer cannot trace a link to the <TABLE> tags.

MORE INFORMATION

Although these files appear as unlinked, they function correctly on the published Web.

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

For additional information about shared borders, click the article number below to view the article in the Microsoft Knowledge Base:

196778 FP2000: What Are Shared Borders and How to Turn Them On and Off

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