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Internet Explorer does not load the Hover button ActiveX control after you install security update 912812 in FrontPage 2003


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Symptoms

Consider the following scenario. You install security update 912812 on your computer. After you do this, Microsoft Internet Explorer does not load the Hover button ActiveX control. Instead, you must click the control placeholder to start and to enable the Hover button control.

This problem occurs when you use Microsoft Office FrontPage 2003 to create the Web pages that use the Hover button.

For more information about security update 912812, click the following article number to view the article in the Microsoft Knowledge Base:
912812� MS06-013: Cumulative security update for Internet Explorer

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Cause

This problem occurs because of changes to COM component handling that are contained in security update 912812. When this update is installed, the APPLET, EMBED, and OBJECT page elements cannot load an ActiveX control. This is especially true of the Hover button control.

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Resolution

To resolve this problem, replace the existing Hover buttons in the Web page. To do this, you can use a script that converts these Hover buttons into CSS buttons. CSS buttons function in a similar manner.

To do this, follow these steps.

Warning The changes that are made by this script cannot be reverted. Make sure that you have a complete backup of the Web site before you run this script.
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  1. In FrontPage 2003, point to Macro on the Tools menu, and then click Visual Basic Editor.
  2. In Project Explorer, right-click Modules, point to Insert, and then click Module.
  3. In the new module, copy the following lines of code, and then save the module.
    Option Explicit
    
    Sub ReplaceHoverButtons()
    
        Dim applet As IHTMLElement
        Dim param As IHTMLElement
        Dim objHead As IHTMLElement
        
        Dim theWeb As WebEx
        Dim webFiles As webFiles
        Dim webFile As webFile
        
        Dim buttonText As String
        Dim buttonURL As String
        Dim buttontarget As String
        Dim styleBlock As String
        
    
        Set theWeb = ActiveWeb
        Set webFiles = theWeb.RootFolder.AllFiles
        
        ' build the style block with colors that match default hover buttons from sample document
        styleBlock ="<style type=""text/css"">" & vbCrLf & _
       "#hoverButton {width: 150px;background-color: #FFFFFF;position: relative;" & _
       "clear: both;display: inline;font-family:Arial;Helvetica;sans-serif}" & vbCrLf & _
       "#hoverButton a {list-style-type: none;width: 100%;margin: 0;" & _
       "text-decoration: none;color: #CC6600;" & _
       "display:block;padding: 5px;border-bottom: 1px solid #f2f2f2;}" & vbCrLf & _
       "#hoverButton a:hover {text-decoration: none;color: #000000;" & _
       "border-bottom: 1px solid #f2f2f2;background-color: #FF9933;}" & vbCrLf & _
       "</style>"
    
        For Each webFile In webFiles
          
            If webFile.Extension ="htm" Or _
            webFile.Extension ="aspx" Or _
            webFile.Extension ="asp" Or _
            webFile.Extension ="html" Then
            
            ' open the file
            webFile.Open
            
            ' Add style block to each of the pages
            Set objHead = ActiveDocument.all.tags("head").Item(0)
            Call objHead.insertAdjacentHTML("BeforeEnd", styleBlock)
    
            ' loop through the applets to get target, url and text to display
            For Each applet In ActiveDocument.all.tags("applet")
                
                ' only get the values for hover buttons
                If applet.getAttribute("code") ="fphover.class" Then
                    
                    For Each param In applet.Children
                        
                        ' get the value of the target
                        If param.getAttribute("name") ="target" Then
                            buttontarget = param.getAttribute("value")
                        End If
                        
                        ' get the value of the URL
                        If param.getAttribute("name") ="url" Then
                            buttonURL = param.getAttribute("value")
                        End If
                        
                        ' get the value of the display text
                        If param.getAttribute("name") ="text" Then
                            buttonText = param.getAttribute("value")
                        End If
        
                    Next
    
                End If
                
                ' replace the applet with new html based on the settings from above
                applet.outerHTML ="<span id=""hoverButton""><a href=""" & buttonURL &""" target=""" & buttontarget &""">" & buttonText &"</a></span>"
            Next
            ' save the page - don't worry about the embedded files dialog
            ActiveDocument.Save (False)
            ActivePageWindow.Close (False)
    
            End If
        Next
        ' uncomment the next line to close the web
        'theWeb.Close
        
    End Sub
    
  4. In FrontPage 2003, open the Web site that contains the pages that use Hover buttons.
  5. On the Tools menu, point to Macro, and then click Macros.
  6. Click ReplaceHoverButtons in the list of Macros, and then click Run.

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Status

Microsoft has confirmed that this is a problem in the Microsoft products that are listed in the "Applies to" section.

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Keywords: KB922480, kbprb, kbexpertisebeginner, kbprogramming, kbscript, kbtshoot

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Article Info
Article ID : 922480
Revision : 4
Created on : 2/7/2007
Published on : 2/7/2007
Exists online : False
Views : 306