FP2000: FrontPage Does Not Prompt You to Save Embedded File (282800)

CAUSE

When an image with an absolute source path on a web page is pasted from Internet Explorer to FrontPage 2000, FrontPage recognizes the path as an absolute path to the image. When absolute paths are used in FrontPage, the paths are left as absolute, so the references to the images will not be broken.

Absolute Paths

The following two absolute path examples do not prompt you to save the image if you copy an image from Internet Explorer and paste it into FrontPage.

For the first example, the source page uses absolute URLs for the image:

<html>
  <head>
    <title>Example 1</title>
  </head>
  <body>
    <img src="http://example.microsoft.com/images/image.gif">
  </body>
</html>

In this second example, the source page has a base location specified in the <head></head> section:

<html>
  <head>
    <title>Example 2</title>
    <base href="http://example.microsoft.com">
  </head>
  <body>
    <img src="/images/image.gif">
  </body>
</html>

Relative Paths

If a page has an image source as a relative path and the file is copied from Internet Explorer, FrontPage prompts you to save the embedded file.

<html>
  <head>
    <title>Example 3</title>
  </head>
  <body>
    <img src="/images/image.gif">
  </body>
</html>

RESOLUTION

To resolve this behavior and make sure the image is in your web site, use one of the following methods.

Method 1: Copy the Image to the Folder List

Right-click the image in Internet Explorer, and then click Copy.
Open a web site in FrontPage.
Right-click the folder that you want to contain the image, and then click Paste.

Method 2: Save the Image and Then Import It

Right-click the image in Internet Explorer, and then click Save Picture As.
Give the image a name, and then save it to your hard disk.
Open a web site in FrontPage.
On the File menu, click Import, and then click Add File.
Browse to the location where you saved the image earlier, and then select the image.
Click Open.
Click OK to import the image to your web site.

MORE INFORMATION

After you use either of the methods in the "Resolution" section of this article, you can insert the image on a page by following these steps:

On the Insert menu, click Picture, and then click From File.
Browse to the location where you imported the image into your web site.
Select the file that you imported, and then click OK.

Additional Information

For additional information, click the article numbers below to view the articles in the Microsoft Knowledge Base:

219253 FP2000: Prompted to Save Embedded Image Each Time You Save Page

219741 FP2000: Drag-and-Drop Operation in FrontPage Does Not Import Embedded Files