FP2000: Hover Buttons from a Disk Based FP98 Page are not Updated by FP2K

After you open, modify, and save (in FrontPage 2000) a disk based HTM file with hover buttons that was created in FrontPage 98, hover buttons appear as a gray box.

When you move your mouse over the gray boxes, you see the following message in the status bar of Internet Explorer:

FrontPage 2000 is preserving the HTML code of the hover buttons. FrontPage will not update the code.

Method 1: Recreate Each Hover Button in FrontPage 2000

To recreate each hover button in FrontPage 2000, follow these steps:

1. In FrontPage 2000, open the page that contains the hover buttons.
2. Double-click each hover button to view the properties, and write down all necessary information to recreate the buttons. For example, Button text and hyperlink.
3. Delete the old hover buttons from the page.
4. Move your cursor to the location you want to insert the new hover button.
5. On the Insert menu, point to Component, and click Hover Button.
6. In the Hover Button Properties box, add the information that you recorded in step 2 for one of the buttons.
7. Repeat steps four through six for each button you want on the page.
8. Save the page.

Method 2: Change the Codebase Path

To change the Codebase path from "_fpclass/" to "./", follow these steps:

1. In Page view, click the HTML tab.
2. Find each of the following lines of code:

   <applet code="fphover.class" codebase="_fpclass/" width="120" height"24">
   						

3. Change the lines of code to update the new codebase location:

   <applet code="fphover.class" codebase="./" width="120" height"24">
   						

4. Next, insert at least one hover button on a page in the same directory of FrontPage. This will create and place the necessary Java class files for the hover buttons to work.