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Troubleshoot frames

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My hyperlink is showing in the wrong frame

On frames pages that you create by using frames page templates in Microsoft FrontPage, the target frames are already set up for you. You can override the target frame for a single hyperlink, or change the default target frame for all hyperlinks on a page.

1. In Page view, open the frames page that has the hyperlink.
2. Select the hyperlink, and then click Insert Hyperlink .
3. Do one or both of the following:

   Change the target frame for a single link

   1. Click Target Frame in the Insert Hyperlink dialog box.
   2. In the Target Frame dialog box, you can select which frame to show your page in. The Current frames page area shows a "map" of the frames page.
   3. Click the frame in which you want to show the page pointed to by the hyperlink you selected.

   Change the default target frame for all hyperlinks on the page

   1. In the Insert Hyperlink dialog box, click Target Frame.
   2. In the Target Frame dialog box, you can select which frame to show your page in. The Current frames page area shows a "map" of the frames page.
   3. Click the frame in which you want to show the page pointed to by the hyperlink you selected.
   4. To designate the target frame you selected as the default target frame for all the hyperlinks on the page, select the Set as page default check box.

When I click a hyperlink, I want the page to show in a new browser window

On frames pages that you create by using templates in Microsoft FrontPage, the target frames are already set up for you. You can change the default target frame so that when a site visitor clicks on a hyperlink, a new browser window opens.

1. In Page view, open the frames page that has the hyperlink.
2. Select the hyperlink, and then click Insert Hyperlink .
3. In the Insert Hyperlink dialog box, click Target Frame to change the target frame from the default.
4. In the Target Frame dialog box, under Common, select New Window.

I can't see all my documents listed on the page tabs

If you have created so many files that not all of them are visible on the page tabs, you will need to do one or more of the following:

• Make the left-most tab visible   Click .
• Make one more tab to the left visible   Click .
• Make one more tab to the right visible   Click .
• Make the right-most tab visible   Click .

I want to edit the HTML of a nested frames page

When you are editing a nested frames page, you can also edit the HTML coding, but you must first open that page in a new window.

• Right-click anywhere on the page, and then click Open Page in New Window on the shortcut menu.

Microsoft FrontPage won't let me open a frames page template

If your browser can't show frames, the frames page template will be unavailable. You can check to see whether your browser shows frames.

In Page view, do the following:

1. On the Tools menu, click Page Options.
2. Click the Compatibility tab.
3. In the Browsers list, select your browser.
4. Depending on which browser you choose, frames will be selected or deselected under Technologies.