Configure the Authoring Properties in FrontPage 2003

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This article describes how to configure the authoring properties for a Web page in Microsoft® FrontPage 2003.

For a Microsoft® FrontPage 2002 version of this article, see 311341 .

Authoring properties determine what types of browsers can view your pages and what types of scripts will run correctly on your pages. Only a member of the administrators group on a computer that runs FrontPage 2003 can use these procedures.

Note– Use the following procedures on pages that are already created and saved.

Open the Page Authoring Properties

  1. Start FrontPage. On the Tools menu, click Page Options.
  2. In the Page Options dialog box, click the Authoring tab.

Edit the Authoring Properties

  1. If you leave the Browsers list as Custom, you can click to select check boxes for different options under FrontPage and SharePoint Technologies.

  2. To modify the Browsers setting, click the setting that you want in the Browsers list. The following table lists the browser types and the features that are not available with each browser type.

    Note– The unavailable features limit the kinds of features that you can apply to your Web pages and how different browsers view your pages.


    Browser type Unavailable features
    Microsoft® Internet Explorer only Blink
    Netscape Navigator only Marquee, video, table background picture, cell borders, and background
    Both Internet Explorer and Netscape Marquee, video, table background picture, cell borders, background, and blink

  3. In the Browser versions list, select the browser versions that you want. The following table lists the versions and the features that are associated with that version. If an option is not available with the browser version that you select, that script type or language will not function in your Web pages.

    Note For descriptions of the features in the table, see the Description of the Features section later in this article.

    Browser version Available features
    Internet Explorer 5.0/6.0 and later ActiveX, VBScript, JavaScript, Java applets, PNG graphics, Frames, CSS 1.0, CSS 2.0, VML
    Internet Explorer 4.0 ActiveX, VBScript, JavaScript, Java applets, PNG graphics, Frames, CSS 1.0, CSS 2.0, VML downlevel image file
    Internet Explorer 3.0 ActiveX, VBScript, JavaScript, Java applets, PNG graphics, Frames, CSS 1.0, VML downlevel image file
    Netscape Navigator 5.0/6.0 and later JavaScript, Java applets, PNG graphics, Frames, CSS 1.0, CSS 2.0, VML downlevel image file
    Netscape 4.0 JavaScript, Java applets, PNG graphics, Frames, CSS 1.0, CSS 2.0, VML downlevel image file
    Netscape 3.0 JavaScript, Java applets, Frames, VML downlevel image file
    Internet Explorer and Netscape 4.0, 5.0, and later JavaScript, Java applets, PNG graphics, Frames, CSS 1.0, CSS 2.0, VML downlevel image file
    Internet Explorer and Netscape 3.0 JavaScript, Java applets, Frames, VML downlevel image file

Note– By default, menu commands that are not compatible with your browser compatibility selections are not available on FrontPage menus. If you override the default setting and enable a technology or feature that a specific browser or version does not support, your Website may appear incorrectly or contain errors.

Description of the Features

  • ActiveX– "ActiveX" is an umbrella term for Microsoft® technologies that permit developers to create interactive content for the World Wide Web. ActiveX is a set of language-independent interoperability technologies that permit software components that are written in different languages to work together in networked environments. The core technology elements of ActiveX are the Component Object Model (COM) and distributed COM. These technologies are licensed to The Open Group standards organization and are implemented on several different platforms.
  • Microsoft Visual Basic Scripting Edition (VBScripts)– VBScript is a subset of the Microsoft® Visual Basic language. VBScript is implemented as a fast, portable, lightweight interpreter for use in Web browsers and other programs that use ActiveX Controls and Java applets.
  • JavaScript– JavaScript is a scripting language that Netscape Communications developed. It is syntactically similar to Java. However, JavaScript is not a true object-oriented language and has limited performance compared with Java because it is not compiled. You must use a JavaScript-client Web browser to run JavaScript code. JavaScript is now an open standard known as the ECMA 262 language specification.
  • Java applet– Java applet is a Java class that is loaded and run by an already-running Java program such as a Web browser or an applet viewer. A Web browser that can interpret Java (for example, Microsoft® Internet Explorer, Netscape Navigator, and HotJava) can download and run Java applets. Java applets are frequently used to add multimedia effects and interactivity to Web pages, such as background music, real-time video displays, animations, calculators, and interactive games. Some applets are activated automatically when a user views a page, and some require an action by the user, such as clicking an icon in the Web page.
  • Cascading style sheets (CSS)– A cascading style sheet is a document that contains style information that several Web pages can refer to. Styles define the content’s appearance and formatting on the Web pages and give authors more control over how browsers display the content.
  • Vector Markup Language (VML)– VML is a specification for editable two-dimension vector graphics in an HTML or XML document. As an application of XML, VML uses XML tags and cascading style sheets to create and add vector graphics, such as circles and squares, in an XML or HTML document, such as a Web page. These graphics, are rendered in the native operating system and can include color. They are also editable in a variety of graphics programs. A variety of computer companies, including AutoDesk, Microsoft, Hewlett-Packard, Macromedia, and Visio, submitted the specification to the W3C in 1998.

The information in this article applies to:

  • Microsoft® Office FrontPage 2003

Microsoft® Knowledge Base Article – 825461


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