Why does a new page pop up? Help

[md]

Hello...I have taken over the webpage maintaining, and had a perfectly good
website that I needed to modify. But now that I post it there is a strange
problem....
If you click on any of the hyperlinks on the home page (index), it pops open
a new IE window. if i click on one of the buttons, it doesnt.
HOWEVER, if you click on any of thehyperlinks on ANY OTHER PAGE, it is fine.

I looked in the hyperlink properties and first found the target frame set to
Page Default (new page). I noted that the pages which worked, were set to
Page Default (none). So I changed it to Page Default (none). But that didnt
work. Note hat I am working on the FP Normal setting, not messing with the
html language.

NOW HERE IS WHERE IT GETS MORE INTERESTING:
As stated above, if I open my home page on the net, and click on any
hyperlink in that page, it opens a new unwanted window-let's call this
Window number 2. HOWEVER, if I go to the NEW window (number 2), click on
the 'home' button to return that window to the home page, and then click on
any hyperlink on the new 'home' page , it is fine, it does NOT open ANOTHER
new window.

PLEASE HELP. WHAT DO I NEED TO DO IN FRONTPAGE (2000) to get the hyperlinks
on the home page not to pop open a new window and just work in the existing
window?

Thanks... mark

ps: if you want to see it, it is www.bioability.com. you can email me at:
info at kramden dot net

thanks.

 

[David Berry]

Switch to HTML View and delete this line under your title tag:

<base target="none">

 

[John Jansen \(MSFT\)]

What you are seeing is a combination of two interesting things.

First, to fix this just right click the page, choose page properties, and
DELETE the word "none" then click OK. This will effectively remove the code
that says <base target="none"> from your page.

Second, the reason you think this isn't happening, or the reason for the
interesting part below, is because "none" does not actually mean "Don't have
a base target". It means "Name the base target "None"". Once that window
is created, it is actually named "None" and when new links are clicked, they
are put into that target. So while it appears that they are not opening in
a new window, they are in fact opening in the window you told them to.

Again, just remove that line of code and all is well.