hyperlink not working

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  chintankanal · Member · Jun 22, 2006 at 9:23 pm

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  I am a relatively newcomer on wordpress. I am trying to place a link on my wordpress blog and the desired page is uploaded at the geocities website.
  While editing my post I managed to create a hyperlink using the tag

  The link got created successfully, however on viewing the saved changes when I click on that link it points to a long url starting with my wordpress blog address. The page is never opened. I am not able to understand why is wordpress adding its url before my url (as seen in my browser’s status bar). Also I noticed some javascript error everytime I use the editor for creating a link.
  After several hours of trial and error I finally gave up on the pretext that something is wrong with wp. Please help. Thanks in advance.

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  west468 · Member · Jun 22, 2006 at 10:27 pm

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  The link got created successfully, however on viewing the saved changes when I click on that link it points to a long url starting with my wordpress blog address.

  The explanation is fairly simple: the protocol is missing in your link.

  Rather than
  
«a href="www.geocities.com/chintan_kanal/ald.html"»algorithm designers«/a»

  you want
  
«a href="http://www.geocities.com/chintan_kanal/ald.html"»algorithm designers«/a»


  Hope this helps.
  West468

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  drmike · Member · Jun 22, 2006 at 10:49 pm

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  Anyone else notice that West468 didn’t have to put in a space after the colon to get the code to show up like the rest of us have to. Hmmm…

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  matt · Staff · Jun 23, 2006 at 4:43 am

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  Probably because he used backticks.

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  west468 · Member · Jun 23, 2006 at 9:15 am

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  Hi drmike,

  I didn’t use backticks. I used the code-tag but that alone did not
  display the html, so I came up with « » rather than < > to make
  the code show up… That was all.

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  drmike · Member · Jun 23, 2006 at 1:41 pm

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  Matt, the backticks don’t work that way you’re thinking that they do. You usually wind up loosing the ‘http://’ portion of the URL.

  For example:

  Just the complete URL: http://drmike.wordpress.com

  With backticks: http://drmike.wordpress.com

  I’ll have to remember the « » marks.

  Thanks,
  -drmike