Barbara Posted October 30, 2017 Report Posted October 30, 2017 (edited) <!DOCTYPE html> <html> <head> <title>Home Page</title> </head> <body> <p>This is my home page.</p> <p>Meet <a href="my-friends.html">my friends.</a></p> </body> </html> Still isn't opening up in browser as a hyperlink. Any other suggestions. Edited October 31, 2017 by Barbara Quote
administrator Posted October 30, 2017 Report Posted October 30, 2017 Can you paste your code snippet, so we can check it out. Stef Quote
Barbara Posted October 30, 2017 Author Report Posted October 30, 2017 4 hours ago, administrator said: I'm not sure I am responding correctly. I tried to submit the code right here and I was receiving an error. I added it to my original post. Sincerely, Barbara - Quote
MikeJones Posted October 30, 2017 Report Posted October 30, 2017 (edited) A couple of questions: 1) is "my-friends" an html file? Does it have an extension (.txt .html, etc)? If so, it must have that extension in the link. I am running under the assumption that is is another page in your site and is called "my-friends.html".Make sure it has an html extension. The names must match (file name and the name in your link) <p>Meet<a href="my-friends.html"> my friends.</a></p> 2) If this is a file, it must be in the same directory as your index.html (or whatever you call you home page). If not, you need to give a path to the file. It is customary to have the html files of a site in the root directory and other things in sub directories. <p>Meet<a href="directory/my-friends.html"> my friends.</a></p> If I am barking up the wrong tree, clarify what you mean by not loading correctly. Add a screen shot if you can. Edited October 30, 2017 by MikeJones 1 Quote
administrator Posted October 30, 2017 Report Posted October 30, 2017 Hi, When inserting code into the forum, you may have to use the code option in the text editor menu (< >) .. anyway, try changing your code to this: Meet <a href="my-friends.html">my friends.</a> ... You have to tell the web browser, what kind of file you are linking to. In this case, it is an html page. Makes sense? Stef Quote
Barbara Posted October 31, 2017 Author Report Posted October 31, 2017 23 hours ago, administrator said: Hi, When inserting code into the forum, you may have to use the code option in the text editor menu (< >) .. anyway, try changing your code to this: Meet <a href="my-friends.html">my friends.</a> Makes sense? Stef I tried that and it still didn't open up in the browser as a hyperlink to my-friends.html. Also I'm still having problems when I click on "Submit Reply" That's why I had to edit my original post. H E L P !!!!! Quote
administrator Posted November 1, 2017 Report Posted November 1, 2017 Make sure that the page you are linking to is in the same folder/directory. So basically, if you have the link in index.html, be sure my-friends.html is sitting in the same folder. Let me know. Stef Quote
Barbara Posted November 1, 2017 Author Report Posted November 1, 2017 It's in the same folder on my desktop Quote
administrator Posted November 1, 2017 Report Posted November 1, 2017 Ooh ... try this: http://my-friends.html Quote
Barbara Posted November 1, 2017 Author Report Posted November 1, 2017 Yippee!!! That's it!!!! Stef, you're the best 1 Quote
administrator Posted November 1, 2017 Report Posted November 1, 2017 Glad I could help. Now you will never make that mistake again! .. Don't worry, we've all made the same one. Hyperlinks are probably the hardest tag to get your head wrapped around. Stef Quote
MikeJones Posted November 1, 2017 Report Posted November 1, 2017 Stef: Curious why it needs to http://. I know I have done it that way in the past and it worked fine. Thoughts? Quote
administrator Posted November 1, 2017 Report Posted November 1, 2017 Hi, I believe it is the web browser being strict about things. I forget the exact reason, but I believe it might have to do with the doctype you use ... which should be the HTML5 doctype these days of course. Stef Quote
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