FP98: Hover Buttons and Banner Ads Show Class Not Found

When you create a hover button or banner ad using images contained in the Web, Microsoft Internet Explorer may display the following error message: NOTE: Other browsers may result in different problems.

When you create a hover button or banner ad and the page has not been previously saved, you can save the .HTM file anywhere in the Web. However, the codebase for the Java applet shows up as "_fpclass" rather than "../_fpclass." Therefore, you will receive the error message described in the "Symptoms" section if the Web page is not saved in the root of the web.

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1. In FrontPage Editor, open the page that contains the hover button or banner ad.
2. Click the HTML tab at the bottom of the FrontPage Editor window.
3. Locate the HTML code that looks similar to the following:

         <applet code="fphover.class" codebase="_fpclass">
   						

4. Change the codebase parameter to the following:

         codebase="../_fpclass"
   						

5. Click the Normal tab at the bottom of the FrontPage Editor window.
6. On the File menu, click Save.

Microsoft has confirmed that this is a problem in the Microsoft products that are listed at the beginning of this article.