Creating Hyperlinks to Pages in Frames

To create a hyperlink to a page and display that page in a target frame, choose Hyperlink on the Insert menu. You create the hyperlink as described in “Creating Hyperlinks in FrontPage”.

Modify button

If you are creating a new hyperlink, FrontPage displays the page’s default target frame in the Target Frame field of the Create Hyperlink dialog box. To set a unique target frame for a hyperlink, click the Modify button in the Create Hyperlink dialog box. FrontPage displays the Target Frame dialog box.

In the Target Frame dialog box, the FrontPage Editor displays a “map” of the frames page that you can use to select a target frame for the hyperlink. To assign a target frame for a hyperlink, click a frame in this map. When you click a frame, its name is displayed in the Target Setting field. To use the page’s default target frame, click Page Default in the Common Targets field. You can make the target frame you selected the default target frame for the current page by clicking Make default for hyperlinks on this page.

Along with displaying your active frames page, the Target Frame dialog box lists common target frames for a hyperlink. These are a set of frames features (most of them advanced) used by Web browsers that support frame pages. You select a common target frame in the Common Targets field. The common target frames are:

• Page Default sets the target frame of the hyperlink to the current page’s default target frame. This is the recommended setting.
  
  
• Same Frame sets the target frame of the hyperlink to the frame that the hyperlink is in. Use this setting to override the page’s default target frame. For example, to create a hyperlink to a bookmark on the current page, specify the Same Frame target.
  
  
• Whole Page sets the target frame of the hyperlink to be the entire Web browser window.
  
  
• New Window specifies that a new instance of the Web browser should be launched on the desktop, and the page that is the target of the hyperlink should be displayed in the new instance of the Web browser.
  
  
• Parent Frame specifies to display the page that is the target of the hyperlink in the frame that contains the current frameset tag. This is an advanced feature.