Hyperlinks

I am wondering if it is possible in FrontPage to have a
hyper link not give out the address it is going to.
IE.... if you have a link that you goes to www.cnn.com but
you don't want www.cnn.com to show up.
Is this possible?

It is possible, but not by using FrontPage alone. It would require some
fairly sophisticated server-side programming to do it right.

However, I just have to ask. Why?

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HTH,
Kevin Spencer
..Net Developer
Microsoft MVP
Big things are made up
of lots of little things.

"Justin" <anonymous@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
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> I am wondering if it is possible in FrontPage to have a
> hyper link not give out the address it is going to.
> IE.... if you have a link that you goes to www.cnn.com but
> you don't want www.cnn.com to show up.
> Is this possible?

>-----Original Message-----
>I am wondering if it is possible in FrontPage to have a
>hyper link not give out the address it is going to.
>IE.... if you have a link that you goes to www.cnn.com
>but you don't want www.cnn.com to show up.
>Is this possible?

You could possibly obscure the target hyperlink but in all
probability, anyone who's at all proficient with
JavaScript would be able to figure it out.

But more importantly, any visitor could simply click the
link and then, when the target page appears, look at the
URL in the Address bar.

What are you trying to accomplish, exactly? There's
probably a better way to do it.

Jim Buyens
Microsoft FrontPage MVP
http://www.interlacken.com
Author of:
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> You could possibly obscure the target hyperlink but in all
> probability, anyone who's at all proficient with
> JavaScript would be able to figure it out.

That's why I mentioned that it could only be done using server-side
programming. It's the only way to truly obscure the origin of HTML content.
However, it's not a beginning programmer task, and does indeed beg the
question why?

--
HTH,
Kevin Spencer
..Net Developer
Microsoft MVP
Big things are made up
of lots of little things.

"Jim Buyens" <news@interlacken.com> wrote in message
news:19a4f01c44db0$558726c0$a601280a@phx.gbl...
> >-----Original Message-----
> >I am wondering if it is possible in FrontPage to have a
> >hyper link not give out the address it is going to.
> >IE.... if you have a link that you goes to www.cnn.com
> >but you don't want www.cnn.com to show up.
> >Is this possible?
>
> You could possibly obscure the target hyperlink but in all
> probability, anyone who's at all proficient with
> JavaScript would be able to figure it out.
>
> But more importantly, any visitor could simply click the
> link and then, when the target page appears, look at the
> URL in the Address bar.
>
> What are you trying to accomplish, exactly? There's
> probably a better way to do it.
>
> Jim Buyens
> Microsoft FrontPage MVP
> http://www.interlacken.com
> Author of:
> *----------------------------------------------------
> |\---------------------------------------------------
> || Microsoft Office FrontPage 2003 Inside Out
> ||---------------------------------------------------
> || Web Database Development Step by Step .NET Edition
> || Microsoft FrontPage Version 2002 Inside Out
> || Faster Smarter Beginning Programming
> || (All from Microsoft Press)
> |/---------------------------------------------------
> *----------------------------------------------------
>
>
>
>
>

He's trying to hide a hyperlink address, not an e-mail address. And
that's pretty hard. For example, you can display a pop-up window with
no address bar, no menu bar, and a right-click trapper, but Ctrl-N
will still reveal the URL.

Usually, the designer wants to hide the URL so, "nobody can know it,"
and therefore, "nobody can get to that page unless they go through my
process."

Of course, there are much better ways of protecting Web pages.

Unfortunately, they all require configuration or programming on the
Web server, which purely artistic designers are usually loath to
approach.

Jim Buyens
Microsoft FrontPage MVP
http://www.interlacken.com
Author of:
*----------------------------------------------------
|\---------------------------------------------------
|| Microsoft Office FrontPage 2003 Inside Out
||---------------------------------------------------
|| Web Database Development Step by Step .NET Edition
|| Microsoft FrontPage Version 2002 Inside Out
|| Faster Smarter Beginning Programming
|| (All from Microsoft Press)
|/---------------------------------------------------
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"Kevin Spencer" <kspencer@takempis.com> wrote in message news:<uKFP$HiTEHA.2416@TK2MSFTNGP12.phx.gbl>...
> > You could possibly obscure the target hyperlink but in all
> > probability, anyone who's at all proficient with
> > JavaScript would be able to figure it out.
>
> That's why I mentioned that it could only be done using server-side
> programming. It's the only way to truly obscure the origin of HTML content.
> However, it's not a beginning programmer task, and does indeed beg the
> question why?
>
> --
> HTH,
> Kevin Spencer
> .Net Developer
> Microsoft MVP
> Big things are made up
> of lots of little things.
>
> "Jim Buyens" <news@interlacken.com> wrote in message
> news:19a4f01c44db0$558726c0$a601280a@phx.gbl...
> > >-----Original Message-----
> > >I am wondering if it is possible in FrontPage to have a
> > >hyper link not give out the address it is going to.
> > >IE.... if you have a link that you goes to www.cnn.com
> > >but you don't want www.cnn.com to show up.
> > >Is this possible?
> >
> > You could possibly obscure the target hyperlink but in all
> > probability, anyone who's at all proficient with
> > JavaScript would be able to figure it out.
> >
> > But more importantly, any visitor could simply click the
> > link and then, when the target page appears, look at the
> > URL in the Address bar.
> >
> > What are you trying to accomplish, exactly? There's
> > probably a better way to do it.
> >
> > Jim Buyens
> > Microsoft FrontPage MVP
> > http://www.interlacken.com
> > Author of:
> > *----------------------------------------------------
> > |\---------------------------------------------------
> > || Microsoft Office FrontPage 2003 Inside Out
> > ||---------------------------------------------------
> > || Web Database Development Step by Step .NET Edition
> > || Microsoft FrontPage Version 2002 Inside Out
> > || Faster Smarter Beginning Programming
> > || (All from Microsoft Press)
> > |/---------------------------------------------------
> > *----------------------------------------------------
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >