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Roadfiz

I am trying to create a hyperlink button that when the cursor is placed on it
sub topic text appears.

How do I do that?
 
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Jack Brewster

Depending on how complicated your text needs are, you might consider
using the title attribute on your links. To do this via the interface
in FrontPage (assuming you have 2003, probably supported in earlier
versions, but I can't recall for sure):
- In Design view, right-click on your link and choose "Hyperlink
Properties..."
- At the top right of the "Edit Hyperlink" dialog, click the "Screen
Tip..." button.
- Enter the text that you wish to appear.
- Click "OK" twice.
- Check your page in Preview mode or in your browser and point to the
link. You should see your message appear.

If you have a version of FrontPage that doesn't have the "Screen Tip..."
option, you can do the same thing by editing the HTML directly. To add
the tip, simply add the following to your <a> tag:
title="screen tip"

For example:
<a title="Go to Yahoo!" href="http://www.yahoo.com">www.yahoo.com</a>

One of the biggest limitations of this method is that the text can't be
multi-line. It also doesn't work in Netscape 4, but it does work in IE4
and should work in all modern browsers (i.e., pretty much any browser
viewing your site).

Good luck!

Jack Brewster
FrontPage MVP
www.maxgeek.com
 
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