Link bars open page in new browser window, not existing

[Chrism]

My Website has been static for a few months and I came to
update it recently. Now when you click on the link bar it
opens the new page randomly in a new browser window, but
does not change focus to the new window. If you have the
Browser full screen it looks like nothing has happened.
If the Browser is less than full screen you see the new
page being loaded into a window behind the current one.

Ideally I want the link bar to navigate within the same
Browser window.

The problem only seemed to start happening after I added
some hyperlinks to the main page body and set them to
open in a new window. I've tried resetting this to open
in the same window, but this hasn't made any difference.
I've tried "Recalculate Hyperlinks", but this doesn't
make any difference either.

I've tried both Frontpage 2002 & 2003, but no difference
and I'm using IE6.0.

Any suggestions on how to resolve this?


Regards

Chris Macneill

 

[David Baxter]

What may have happened is that when you added the new links with "open
in new window" you also checked a box that asks if you wanted to make
this the default behavior for that page. Try going to a link that is NOT
supposed to open in a new window, make sure it is set to open in same
window, and checking "use as default for this page".

That may not change links already showing the behavior, however. If you
are comfortable with HTML view, it's faster to look for code that
includes

target="_blank"

in the <a href= line. If you see link that should not open in a new
window which include that phrase, delete the phrase and the leading
blank space (don't delete the trailing > character!).

Or, use the replace function to change all occurrences of

target="_blank"

with

(i.e., null character) and
then go back and change the few links you actually WANT to open in a new
window to do that.

 

[Guest]

I just resolved the same issue with my FrontPage 2003. I did it by going to Page Properties for the affected page and changing the Default Target Frame to "_self" and saving the changes.