HyperLink Madness

[DC]

I am building a web page, when I click on "follow hyperlink" it works great, when I clik on the icon to go to the hperlink, it does not function properly, it comes up and asks me to open the file I am trying to access. Why does it work greeat when I "follow Link"? Why doesn't it perform the same when I click on the Icon in preview mode. I have saved the page I am building, I have not published it to a server yet.

 

[Tom Pepper Willett]

What icon are you referring to?
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I am building a web page, when I click on "follow hyperlink" it works

great, when I clik on the icon to go to the hperlink, it does not function
properly, it comes up and asks me to open the file I am trying to access.
Why does it work greeat when I "follow Link"? Why doesn't it perform the
same when I click on the Icon in preview mode. I have saved the page I am
building, I have not published it to a server yet.

 

[DC]

The "Icon" i'm refering to is simply the "Name" of the hyperlink or as FR puts it "The text to be displayed" when I created the link.

 

[Jim Buyens]

In the FrontPage editor, double-clicking a hyperlink
displays the Hyperlink Properties dialog box. This follows
the same pattern as double-clicking most other Web page
objects in the editor. For example, if you double-click a
form field or a picture, you get the corresponding
Properties dialog box.

If you want to open the page that a hyperlink references,
either ctrl+click it or right-click it and choose Follow
Hyperlink from the shortcut menu.

Hyperlink madness indeed. Now you've got me singing the
Psycho Chicken song...

Jim Buyens
Microsoft FrontPage MVP
http://www.interlacken.com
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-----Original Message-----
I am building a web page, when I click on "follow

hyperlink" it works great, when I clik on the icon to go
to the hperlink, it does not function properly, it comes
up and asks me to open the file I am trying to access. Why
does it work greeat when I "follow Link"? Why doesn't it
perform the same when I click on the Icon in preview mode.
I have saved the page I am building, I have not published
it to a server yet.

 

[DC]

Jim
What you ae saying is very true in the "Page" view using "normal" mode of FP. What I am refering to is when I am in the "Preview" mode, I can left click on all of my hyperlinks and they do what they are supposed to do, however, this particular hyperlink acts very differently when I left click on it as opposed to right click and "follow Link" or "Crtl+click" to follow link. What it does is when I try to follow it, other than the "follow link" method, it open a dialog box asking me to "Open" or "Save" the database that I am trying to open, which I must say once again, it opens by itself and appears to operate very normally if I "follow LInk". Now if you want me to buy your book I will if it will explain why this phenonmenon is occuring
BSIT Student - University of Phoenix.

 

[Stefan B Rusynko]

What is the link (type of file) to?
- if it is to a file not recognized as a valid mime type by the browser it will always as you what to do




| Jim,
| What you ae saying is very true in the "Page" view using "normal" mode of FP. What I am refering to is when I am in the "Preview"
mode, I can left click on all of my hyperlinks and they do what they are supposed to do, however, this particular hyperlink acts
very differently when I left click on it as opposed to right click and "follow Link" or "Crtl+click" to follow link. What it does is
when I try to follow it, other than the "follow link" method, it open a dialog box asking me to "Open" or "Save" the database that I
am trying to open, which I must say once again, it opens by itself and appears to operate very normally if I "follow LInk". Now if
you want me to buy your book I will if it will explain why this phenonmenon is occuring!
| BSIT Student - University of Phoenix.

 

[DC]

Stefan
I think that you are on to something here, the file type is "mdb" it is an Access Database File. Do you know if there is a way that I can tell my browser to recognize this type
Thanks,

 

[Tom Pepper Willett]

This is how a link to a database is, by behavior, unless proper permissions
are placed on the folder/database.
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| Jim,
| What you ae saying is very true in the "Page" view using "normal" mode of
FP. What I am refering to is when I am in the "Preview" mode, I can left
click on all of my hyperlinks and they do what they are supposed to do,
however, this particular hyperlink acts very differently when I left click
on it as opposed to right click and "follow Link" or "Crtl+click" to follow
link. What it does is when I try to follow it, other than the "follow link"
method, it open a dialog box asking me to "Open" or "Save" the database that
I am trying to open, which I must say once again, it opens by itself and
appears to operate very normally if I "follow LInk". Now if you want me to
buy your book I will if it will explain why this phenonmenon is occuring!
| BSIT Student - University of Phoenix.

 

[Thomas A. Rowe]

The normal method of using a Access database on the web is to use ASP to connect to the database,
not have it open in a browser. If you want to provide the database for downloading, then you need to
compress it into a zip file format, and then link to the zip file.

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Stefan,
I think that you are on to something here, the file type is "mdb" it is an Access Database File.

Do you know if there is a way that I can tell my browser to recognize this type?

 

[Stefan B Rusynko]

You can't open and access database in a browser
- you can only access the content in it using a server side script like ASP




| Stefan,
| I think that you are on to something here, the file type is "mdb" it is an Access Database File. Do you know if there is a way
that I can tell my browser to recognize this type?
| Thanks,