re: Frame Target switches from default to _blank upon saving

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From: Jim Buyens (news_at_interlacken.com)
Date: 08/25/04 

Date: Wed, 25 Aug 2004 13:56:10 -0700

Open your frames page, switch to Code view, and check your
<frame> tags for target= attributes. If you find any,
delete them (both that target= and the value).

Jim Buyens
Microsoft FrontPage MVP
http://www.interlacken.com
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>-----Original Message-----
>In FP2002 SP2, I have a page whose hyperlinks refuse to
remember their target
>frame settings when set to page default. After saving
and reopening the file
>it shows that the target frame setting for each hyperlink
has reverted to
>"_blank", which is NOT the page default.
>
>I have done the following, based on ideas from other
postings in this forum:
>- Opened the web's home page, selected File>Properties,
and set the default
>target frame to "_self".
>- Opened the internal page I'm having difficulty with,
selected
>File>Properties, and set its default target frame
to "_self".
>- Highlighted a hyperlink on this internal page, right-
clicked to select
>Hyperlink Properties, clicked the Target Frame button,
selected Page Default,
>then clicked OK twice to accept those changes.
>
>If I then check the setting by once again highlighting
the hyperlink and
>right-clicking "Hyperlink Properties", the bottom of the
dialogue box shows
>no target frame setting (i.e. it's got the page default
set). So far, so good.
>
>The wierdness happens when I save the document and reopen
it. This is
>entirely within FrontPage - I haven't published the page
or its web! Upon
>reopening the document and selecting the same hyperlink I
set to Page Default
>immediately before, its Hyperlink Properties now
displays "_blank".
>
>Needless to say when I publish to the web and browse the
file, the hyperlink
>is using the "_blank" setting, launching a new window
when the hyperlink is
>clicked.
>
>This behaviour happens with each hyperlink in the page
that is set to Page
>Default! All of them revert to "_blank", yet the default
target frame for the
>page remains "_self". Interestingly, a hyperlink that is
manually set to
>"_self" instead of accepting the page default of "_self"
retains the "_self"
>setting after saving and reopening.
>
>Apparently something is globally reprogramming my links
instead of
>remembering that they are set to Page Default. Any ideas?
Sounds like a bug
>in the program, or some global setting that is being
applied upon saving and
>reopening. I really don't think I should have to manually
set every one of my
>hyperlinks to "_blank". Kind of defeats the idea of a
Page Default.
>
>The page is
http://www.rickhershberger.com/bioactivesite/bio103/index.h
tm
>
>--
>Rick Hershberger
>.
>

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