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Q288181: FP2002: How to Create Home Page Hot Key with JavaScript

Article: Q288181
Product(s): Word Front Page
Version(s): 
Operating System(s): 
Keyword(s): kbdta
Last Modified: 13-MAY-2002

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The information in this article applies to:

- Microsoft FrontPage 2002 
- Microsoft FrontPage 2000 
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SUMMARY
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This article illustrates how a key that is pressed when a user is viewing a Web
page can be used to direct the browser to another location. The JavaScript
example presented in this article associates the "H" key with a URL. When a user
presses H, the browser navigates to that URL. You can use this procedure on a
Web site as a "hot key" to return to the site home page.

NOTE: This article uses custom JavaScript that may not be available in all
browsers. For more information about this topic, click Microsoft FrontPage Help
on the Help menu, type "compatibility" in the Answer Wizard, and then click
Search to view the topic.

MORE INFORMATION
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NOTE: You may receive an error message if you copy and paste the examples
directly from this article to FrontPage. The angle brackets ("<" and ">")
may appear as escaped HTML code ("&lt;" and "&gt;"). To work around this
behavior, paste the script in a blank Notepad document, and then copy it from
Notepad before you paste it into FrontPage.

Code Sample
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1. Open a Web in FrontPage.

2. Open the page where you want to insert the "hot key" feature.

3. Switch to HTML view.

4. Insert the following JavaScript code in the <HEAD></HEAD> section
  of the HTML page. (Change the destination HTTP address to the URL that you
  want to become the home page.)

  <script language="JavaScript">
  <!--
  // define our "hotkeys", use "Character Map" for values.
  var HotkeyLcase=104;
  var HotkeyUcase=72;

  // define our destination.
  var destination="http://www.microsoft.com/";

  // set up page to capture keypress events.
  if (document.layers)
    document.captureEvents(Event.KEYPRESS);

  // the following function tests which key was pressed
  // and redirects to our destination if the key is valid.
  function backhome(e){
    if (document.layers){
      if ((e.which==HotkeyLcase) || (e.which==HotkeyUcase))
        window.location=destination;
      }
    else if (document.all){
      if ((event.keyCode==HotkeyLcase) || (event.keyCode==HotkeyUcase))
        window.location=destination;
    }
  }

  // point keypress events to our function
  document.onkeypress=backhome;
  //-->
  </script>

5. When you preview the Web page in your browser and press H on your keyboard,
  your browser navigates to the page that you specified in the JavaScript.

Additional query words: Javascript hotkey homepage inf

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Keywords          : kbdta 
Technology        : kbFrontPageSearch kbFrontPage2002 kbFrontPage2000Search kbFrontPage2002Search kbZNotKeyword5
Version           : :
Issue type        : kbhowto

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