The Table of Contents (TOC) component in FrontPage can be
very useful in helping viewer in finding information on your web site. Its
very easy to insert a TOC component, just bring up a page, place your
cursor on the page and select the "Insert->Web Components..." menu item.
Then select the "Table of Contents" from the "Component type" list as
illustrated below.
Web Components dialog
The "Insert Web Component" dialog will appear. Select "For
this web site" item and press the "Finish" button. The TOC Properties
dialog will appear.
Table of Contents Properties dialog
Select the starting point for the TOC (your default page
will be selected by default). Usually the web sites main home page is the
starting point, although you might want to generate a TOC for a specific
section of the web. Set the rest of controls as illustrated above and
press the OK button.
Table of Contents Component
on the page
You will note that the TOC does not appear in FrontPage
Normal/Design or Preview mode (see illustration above), the page must be
previewed in the browser to see the TOC listing as illustrated below:
Table of Contents Component
in browser
Inside Tip: Why can't I control the Font Size?
You will note that the font size for the TOC is not adjustable by the
normal select and set the font-size methods. The font, font size and style
is typically set by the FrontPage theme that is applied to the page. You
can manually override the font size of the TOC component by adding some
style sheet code to the head tag as illustrated below:
<head>
...
<style>
a:link { font-size: 12px; }
a:active { font-size: 12px; }
a:visited { font-size: 12px; }
a:hover {font-size: 12px; color: #FF0000; }
</style>
...
</head>
Note: this style code should be inserted
somewhere between the <head> and </head> tags as illustrated above. The
style code above also contains a red link rollover command.
Table of Contents Component
in browser after styles applied
Now you can control the size of the font, although not the size of the
header font.
Can I control what
pages are part of the TOC?
Good question, this issues is resolved in the next
tip on the "TOC based
on categories" component.
And That's it
