Bookmark - question

[Brenda]

I am still in the process of re-working a website for my girlfriend who does
genealogical research in upstate New York:

http://www.brickwallbuster.com/

I am working on the "NEWSPAPER INDEX" portion of her website. She had early
obits, etc online, but the previous formatting of her website left a lot to
be desired.

I have done a copy/paste of a couple of her pages (so I don't have to
completely retype the obits and marriage announcements).

A couple of things I am seeing, that I don't understand (I'm using FrontPage
2003 - I'm guessing she did not):
1) Where she had what I believe to be a bookmark, on the pages that I have
done a copy/paste on, I am seeing a little "flag" graphic. When I create a
bookmark (with FrontPage 2003) it underlines the area, rather than putting a
little "flag" there.

Is that just the difference in the version of software that was / is used?

2) Her bookmarks seem to have the pound sign (#) in front of the name/number
of the bookmark. My FP2003 doesn't seem to accept the # sign (otherwise I
would leave her bookmarks alone, and just use the name of her bookmarks.)

Again, is that difference just the difference between versions of software
used, or is there something else going on that I just don't know about? I'm
not that knowledgeable about bookmarks.

Thanks,
Brenda

 

[Steve Easton]

The reason FrontPage doesn't recognize the # is because they were not created in FrontPage.

You "might" be able to make FP recognize them by clicking Tools > Recalculate Hyperlinks.
Note I said "might." If not you will have to redo them.

--

Steve Easton
Microsoft MVP FrontPage
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[Brenda]

Ah - so she didn't use FrontPage... I didn't know what she had used. I'm
pretty much redoing all the bookmarks manually. I'm reformatting the pages,
one by one anyway. At least copy/paste has saved me from retyping more
pages than I care to think about.

When I go to INSERT/BOOKMARK, I can see she has for example, #100 (which is
her bookmark 100). I go up and delete the "#" and keep the name 100, in
hopes doing this will help me later on in her bookmark system. That still
leaves "#100" --- I am not seeing any way to delete "#100". I am guessing
it won't MATTER if the "#100" is still there -- but is there a way to tidy
it up and delete the "#100" or should I just stop worrying about bookmark
numbers with the "#" in front of them and move on?

Thank you,
Brenda

 

[Steve Easton]

Bookmarks are supposed to have the # in front of them.
That's what makes it a bookmark, and is how the bookmark is identified
in the hyperlink to it.

When creating a bookmark link to a page, if you click the file name
of the page in the hyperlink dialog box, does a list of bookmarks in the page appear?

Open the page you are linking to in the editor,
Then to create your bookmark link, go through the insert hyperlink process,
in the page you are linking "from." but click the file "containing" the bookmarks and then click
the bookmark button on the hyperlink dialog.
A list of all of the bookmarks in the page should appear, click the one you want to select
it and then click ok.


--

Steve Easton
Microsoft MVP FrontPage
FP Cleaner
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Hit Me FP
http://www.95isalive.com/fixes/HitMeFP.htm

 

[Ronx]

There are 3 ways to make a bookmark:

1) - the most common method uses an Anchor:
<a name="bookmarkname">bookmarktext</a>
The words "book mark text" may be underlined - FrontPAge will underline
them with a dashed line in design view.

2) - a variant of 1, where the anchor is empty.
<a name="bookmarkname"></a>
FrontPage will indicate the location of this anchor (bookmark) with a
flag icon.

3) - not often described and can be ignored, and only works in IE5.5 and
later, Netscape 6 and later, and recent versions of other browsers. The
id attribute of any element can be used as a bookmark.
<p id="bookmarkname">paragraph text goes here</p>
FrontPage does not recognise this as a bookmark, and treats it as any
other paragraph, though links to the bookmark will work in the browsers
mentioned above.

Links to bookmarks resemble:

<a href="#bookmarkname>link to a bookmark named bookmarkname</a>
Or if in another page:
<a href="firstpage.htm#bookmarkname">link to a bookmark named
bookmarkname in firstpage.htm</a>



The # in a bookmark name is not valid HTML. From
http://www.w3.org/TR/html401/types.html#type-cdata :

"ID and NAME tokens must begin with a letter ([A-Za-z]) and may be
followed by any number of letters, digits ([0-9]), hyphens ("-"),
underscores ("_"), colons (":"), and periods (".")."

though for some (older) browsers the length of a bookmark name should be
limited to 8 characters (which the above examples exceed).
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