web loses border colors and style

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At http://bixbyrose.com/test2.htm I have an example of my prolblem.
I go to Format, Borders&Shading, and add the borders but when I preview them
or add them to the webpage they lose their shape (solid, ridge, inset,etc.)
and color. I have tried to use table and cell bordering but can't get the
same effect as in Format Borders. What is my problem?
 
Which version of the FP extensions are install on the live/remote server and are you uploading via
FP's http mode?

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I only know that my webhost uses Front Page extensions but it has been my
experience that they keep up everything updated.
To edit and upload I go to "Edit with Frontpage. I'm not sure I am giving
you the answers you need.
 
Try it the long way:
Open FP
Open Web/Site
open your local web wherever you store it on your hd
then
File | Publish Web/Site
publish it that way.
 
At http://bixbyrose.com/test2.htm I have an example of my prolblem.
I go to Format, Borders&Shading, and add the borders but when I preview them
or add them to the webpage they lose their shape (solid, ridge, inset,etc.)
and color. I have tried to use table and cell bordering but can't get the
same effect as in Format Borders. What is my problem?
Click to expand...

Leaving aside the publishing method, I have viewed the site in MSIE
and in Firefox browsers and looked at the HTML source.

Firefox displays the table borders in 3-D but the border colour is
shades of grey.

MSIE gives you red borders but they are flat, with no 3-D effect.

It appears that the tables get their 3-D appearance from a "style"
attribute but their colour is not specified in "style" but in the
"bordercolor" attribute.

Firefox is fussier than MSIE about border colours. You could try
specifying *all* the border properties in the style attribute:

<td width="31%" style="padding:2px; border-style:ridge;
border-width:6px; border-color: #FF0000">

E&OE: I haven't tried this, and I've only had one cup of coffee so far
this morning. :)

Also, if this code does work, I don't know if FP can be persuaded to
produce the same thing...

fido
 
Rosemary,
Open your remote website in FP, assuming FP2003, go to File/Publish website.
Select Remote to Local, choose where to put it on your hard drive, then
select publish now.
HTH
Teriel9
 
it's weird - in IE 6.0 I think is the problem you have, but in Firefox 1.0
it displays OK....I think...

(try different browsers, you might see different results.)

IE 6 displays a table 4 cells across by 6 down, with thick, red borders.

Firefox displays 4 X 6 grey 3-D, ridged, inset (or whatever you made them).
 
Working locally then Publishing to the online server is the safest method of
working. You always have a copy of your web and you can test and not publish
pages until you're happy with them.

On the other issue. If you open the web the long way (not using Edit With FP
button) you can also edit the web live (you'd enter your
http:/www.webname.com instead of the local address) and all you do is Save
the pages - you don't Publish the web to itself.

You can also try Recalculating Hyperlinks on the live server that "may" fix
it.

But you're much better off working locally then Publishing to the live
server.
 
it's weird - in IE 6.0 I think is the problem you have, but in Firefox 1.0
it displays OK....I think...

(try different browsers, you might see different results.)

IE 6 displays a table 4 cells across by 6 down, with thick, red borders.

Firefox displays 4 X 6 grey 3-D, ridged, inset (or whatever you made them).
Click to expand...

Firefox does its best with the ridged border but it doesn't do the
colours: possibly because the border-color property isn't specified in
the style attribute, it is in the bordercolor attribute, which Firefox
seems to ignore.

Meanwhile, IE happily supplies the colour but will have nothing to do
with the border style.

fido
 
I am using FrontPage 2002 and there isn't a "Remote to Local". When I select
a folder to publish it to I get this message:"You specified identical
destination filenames for some of the files you are trying to copy. Make
sure all destination files have unique names and try again." I don't
understand what this means. The folder on my C drive that I am trying to
copy it to is empty.
 
Thanks for all your help on the color issue. I think I have it solved. I
highlighted the table, went to cell properties, Style, Format, Border and
selected what I needed and , voila! Check it out at bixbyrose.com/test2htm
How does it look in IE and FF?
 
Follow the instructions I posted.
You have to open your website "live" the one on the server then Publish it
back to your harddrive.
 
Open you live/remote site directly in FP via File Menu | Open Web and enter the URL as
http://www.yourdomainname.com
then once you have the web open, File Menu | Publish Web and then browse to the folder on you local
HD, c:\foldername, etc.

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==============================================
Thomas A. Rowe (Microsoft MVP - FrontPage)
==============================================
If you feel your current issue is a results of installing
a Service Pack or security update, please contact
Microsoft Product Support Services:
http://support.microsoft.com
If the problem can be shown to have been caused by a
security update, then there is usually no charge for the call.
==============================================
 
This worked for me. I have a website shortcut in Networking. I highlighted
it and copied it to my harddrive.
I have been editing my webpages online because my webhost recommended it.

All is well now at the BixbyRose, with the help of my friends.
 
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