interactive button in shared border

[miles sandin]

Folks:
I tried to place an interactive button in a shared
border. The insert button option was not available if
the cursor was in the border area. I placed the button
in a body area and then cut and pasted it into the shared
border area. All works fine except when the cursor
hovers over the button, the image disappears and leaves
the red "x in a box". I'm guessing that this is why it
was disabled. Any comments? Any work around? I was
trying to make a controllable menu functionality for our
web site. (www.sheltiesys.com) The FP navigation menu
system just wasn't doing what I needed. Do you think
that DHTML would be better than the shared borders?
Thanks for your help.
miles sandin
(e-mail address removed)

 

[MD Websunlimited]

Miles,

IAB, requires quite a bit of JavaScript code to function in the border area and the code is written to the head of the border page.
This causes a problem as shared border work like FP includes in that only the body of the included page is include in the source.
Thus the implementation scripts do not work.

Two fixes:

1. Move away from SB and go to DWT it does not have the same restrictions but does have some update issues on server based webs.

2. Keep the SB but manually move the code to beneath the body tag.

HTH,

 

[Ronx]

See www.rxs-enterprises.com/fp/b/buttons/

Consider using Dynamic Web Templates instead of shared borders.

Ron