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

ID: Q196778


The information in this article applies to:
  • Microsoft FrontPage 2000


SUMMARY

FrontPage 2000 uses shared borders, a feature that allows you to automatically apply one or more common border elements to all pages within a web or to specific pages through a single command.


MORE INFORMATION

Shared borders are page regions -- top, bottom, left, and right -- used to hold content that you want to appear consistently throughout all pages in the current Web. Shared borders are stored in four files:

  • Top.htm


  • Bottom.htm


  • Left.htm


  • Right.htm


Shared borders are stored in the _borders folder in the current web. You can edit the shared borders files in one of two ways:
  • You can open the file that contains the shared border you want to modify.

    -or-


  • You can open a page in the Web that uses the shared border.


NOTE: In FrontPage, when you open a page that contains shared borders, the Web page appears to use a table format. If you view the Hypertext Markup Language (HTML) code by clicking the HTML tab, you only see the HTML for the central page. You do not see any of the HTML code for the shared borders.

In FrontPage, you can turn on or turn off shared borders for the entire web, or you can turn them on or off on a page-by-page basis.

To turn on or turn off shared borders, follow these steps:
  1. In FrontPage, double-click a page to open it.


  2. Right-click the page and select Shared Borders.


  3. Select the All Pages button to apply the shared border to all pages.

    -or-

    Select the Current button to apply the shared border to the current page.


  4. Select the check boxes for the shared borders you want to use.


  5. Click OK.


NOTE: You can reset the shared borders of the current page by selecting Reset borders for current page to web default and clicking OK.


REFERENCES

For more information about shared borders, click Microsoft FrontPage Help on the Help menu, type "Set shared borders for a page" in the Answer Wizard, and then click Search to view the topic.

Additional query words: Shared borders front page

Keywords : kbdta
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Platform : WINDOWS
Issue type : kbinfo


Last Reviewed: January 31, 2000
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