HOW TO: Create a ScreenTip for Text Hyperlinks in FrontPage 2000 (265211)

SUMMARY

This article shows you how to use Hypertext Markup Language (HTML) TITLE elements as ScreenTips in your Microsoft FrontPage webs. ScreenTips are commonly used to identify interface objects such as toolbar buttons. In a FrontPage web, you can use a hyperlink's TITLE element to display a ScreenTip when the viewer moves the cursor over the link.

NOTE: This functionality may not be available in all browsers.

For more information about browser compatibility issues, click Microsoft Help on the Help menu, type compatibility in the Office Assistant or the Answer Wizard, and then click Search to view the topics returned.

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Create a ScreenTip

To create a ScreenTip for a hyperlink, follow these steps:

1. Open a new blank page in FrontPage.
2. On the Insert menu, click Hyperlink.
3. In the Create Hyperlink dialog, type any Web address, for example http://www.msn.com, and then click OK.
4. Click the HTML tab and locate the following code

   <a href="http://<computername>/<webname>/<pagename>">
   						

   where computername, webname, and pagename are the names of your server, the web that you are working with, and the page that you have selected to link to, respectively.
5. Edit the code and add a TITLE element so that it resembles the following:

   <a href="http://<computername>/<webname>/<pagename>" TITLE="Click Here">
   					

6. Click the Preview tab and point to the hyperlink.
   
   A ScreenTip appears with the words "Click Here."

NOTE: You can also create multi-line ScreenTips by pressing the ENTER key inside the TITLE element, or by typing 
 at each place in the text where you want a line break to be used. The following HTML samples illustrate these possibilities:

• <a href="http://www.microsoft.com" TITLE="Click
  
  Here">Microsoft's Web Site</a>

• <a href="http://<computername>/<webname>/<pagename>" TITLE="Click&#13;&#13;Here">Microsoft's Web Site</a>

The text sequence 
 is an HTML Character Entity for a carriage return, and therefore provides the same functionality as results when you press the ENTER key inside the TITLE element.

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