FP: Invalid Target Frame Reference Causes New Browser to Load

• Microsoft FrontPage 98 for Windows
• Microsoft FrontPage 97 for Windows with Bonus Pack
• Microsoft FrontPage for Windows, version 1.1
• Microsoft FrontPage for the Power Macintosh, version 1.0

SYMPTOM

When you click a hyperlink, another instance of the browser is loaded.

CAUSE

An invalid frame name was specified as the target frame for the hyperlink. An invalid name is a name that does not reference a frame in the current frame set.

MORE INFORMATION

Most Web browsers allow you to target different frames within a frame set. Assigning a target frame that exists within the context of the current frame set activates this feature.

When a frame is assigned as a target, the name must exactly match a frame that exists in the current frame set (note that these names are case-sensitive). If the name of the frame is incorrect, a new instance of the browser will be loaded.

Take for example, a frame set page with two frames aligned vertically where the left frame is named "content" and the right frame is named "main." If you want a hyperlink that is activated in the "content" frame to load a specified page in the "main" frame, you must specify "main" as the target frame.

If, however, you set a link in the "content" frame to display a page in the "Main" frame (and you use an uppercase "M" instead of a lowercase "M"), a separate instance of the Web browser will be started.

For more information about frames and frame sets, click the Index tab in FrontPage Help, type the following text

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