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Post August 23rd, 2006, 9:23 am

The hyperlinks work fine in IE, but are normal text in FF. Maybe I am doing something wrong? The mailto links work good tough. This is my simple link code:
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<a href="link">hyperlink</a>


EDIT: I already fixed... I need to place http: before the pagename.... Strange...
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Post August 23rd, 2006, 9:37 am

Glad you fixed it, but your edit doesn't make sense!
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Post August 23rd, 2006, 10:35 am

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Glad you fixed it, but your edit doesn't make sense!

You're right, because its not working again.
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Post August 23rd, 2006, 10:35 am

herbie497 wrote:
Glad you fixed it, but your edit doesn't make sense!



When using an anchor link IE will still display it as a link, whereas Firefox won't if you leave out the http://

In other words <a href="www.yahoo.com">yahoo</a> displays as a link in IE, not in FF. It needs to be <a href="http://www.yahoo.com">yahoo</a> to work.
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Post August 23rd, 2006, 10:38 am

In other words <a href="www.yahoo.com">yahoo</a> displays as a link in IE, not in FF. It needs to be <a href="http://www.yahoo.com">yahoo</a> to work.[/quote]
Thats what I did, but a few minutes later it was normal text again. This is what I use.
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<a href="http://Rules.html">Rules</a>


EDIT: You're code didn't work tough.
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Post August 23rd, 2006, 10:46 am

Why can't you use
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<a href="page.html">Page</a>


I use them on my site and it works just fine in IE and FF.
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Post August 23rd, 2006, 10:48 am

grinch2171 wrote:
I use them on my site and it works just fine in IE and FF.

It's time for me to display the whole file code.
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<html>
<head>
<title>[url]www.Hellcoam.com[/url]</title>
</head>
<body>
<!-- ************************************************************************************************* -->
<div style="position: absolute; left: 10; top: 10; height: 80; width: 150; padding: 0; border: 0 black solid">
<img src="Logo.jpg">
</div>
<!-- ************************************************************************************************* -->
<div style="position: absolute; left: 20; top: 100; height: 200; width: 150; padding: 0; border: 0 black solid">
<font face="verdana" size="2">
<font color="red"><b>^</b></font><a href="http://Home.html"><b>Home</b></a>
<br>
<a href="http://Hellcoam.html">Hellcoam</a>
<br>
<a href="http://Rules.html">Rules</a>
<br>
<a href="http://Board.html">Board</a>
</font>
</div>
<!-- ************************************************************************************************* -->
<div style="position: absolute; left: 0; top: 100; height: 200; width: 120; border-right: 1px black dashed">
</div>
<!-- ************************************************************************************************* -->
<div style="position: absolute; left: 150; top: 80; height: 200; width: 500; border: 0 black solid">
<font face="Verdana" size="2" color="orange"><center><b>Welcome To Hellcoam</b></center></font>
<HR color="gray">
<p align="left">
<font face="Verdana" size="2">
Hellcoam is a roleplaying board community. This isn't just a normal roleplay board; we mixed roleplay and turn based genres into one. The Hellcoam board is made with phpBB. You can find <b>all</b> the Hellcoam news and updates at the board. Questions related to Hellcoam can be asked <a href="mailto:help@hellcoam.com">here</a>. Hellcoam ingame questions can be asked in the Help Forum. You can read our FAQ <a href="http://FAQ.html">here</a>.
</font>
</p>
<p align="center"><font face="Tahoma" size="1">Copyright © Hellcoam.com</font></p>
</div>
<!-- ************************************************************************************************* -->
</body>
</html>
  1. <html>
  2. <head>
  3. <title>[url]www.Hellcoam.com[/url]</title>
  4. </head>
  5. <body>
  6. <!-- ************************************************************************************************* -->
  7. <div style="position: absolute; left: 10; top: 10; height: 80; width: 150; padding: 0; border: 0 black solid">
  8. <img src="Logo.jpg">
  9. </div>
  10. <!-- ************************************************************************************************* -->
  11. <div style="position: absolute; left: 20; top: 100; height: 200; width: 150; padding: 0; border: 0 black solid">
  12. <font face="verdana" size="2">
  13. <font color="red"><b>^</b></font><a href="http://Home.html"><b>Home</b></a>
  14. <br>
  15. <a href="http://Hellcoam.html">Hellcoam</a>
  16. <br>
  17. <a href="http://Rules.html">Rules</a>
  18. <br>
  19. <a href="http://Board.html">Board</a>
  20. </font>
  21. </div>
  22. <!-- ************************************************************************************************* -->
  23. <div style="position: absolute; left: 0; top: 100; height: 200; width: 120; border-right: 1px black dashed">
  24. </div>
  25. <!-- ************************************************************************************************* -->
  26. <div style="position: absolute; left: 150; top: 80; height: 200; width: 500; border: 0 black solid">
  27. <font face="Verdana" size="2" color="orange"><center><b>Welcome To Hellcoam</b></center></font>
  28. <HR color="gray">
  29. <p align="left">
  30. <font face="Verdana" size="2">
  31. Hellcoam is a roleplaying board community. This isn't just a normal roleplay board; we mixed roleplay and turn based genres into one. The Hellcoam board is made with phpBB. You can find <b>all</b> the Hellcoam news and updates at the board. Questions related to Hellcoam can be asked <a href="mailto:help@hellcoam.com">here</a>. Hellcoam ingame questions can be asked in the Help Forum. You can read our FAQ <a href="http://FAQ.html">here</a>.
  32. </font>
  33. </p>
  34. <p align="center"><font face="Tahoma" size="1">Copyright © Hellcoam.com</font></p>
  35. </div>
  36. <!-- ************************************************************************************************* -->
  37. </body>
  38. </html>
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Post August 23rd, 2006, 10:55 am

If you're linking to pages within your own site, you shouldn't use
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http://blahblahblah
...that's only for external links (linking to Google, for example).

Question: are the pages you linking to in different directories?
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Post August 23rd, 2006, 10:57 am

The http:// gives errors in IE now.
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Post August 23rd, 2006, 10:58 am

Nightslyr wrote:
are the pages you linking to in different directories?

Everything is in the same map.
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Post August 23rd, 2006, 11:01 am

STeeLRaT wrote:
The http:// gives errors in IE now.


Okay, please re-read what I wrote. You should ONLY use the explicit method of linking for EXTERNAL (that is, pages that aren't a part of your site) pages. So remove all of your

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http://


code from your links that don't connect to external places.

Now, please answer my question: are the pages you're trying to link to (example: Rules.html) in a seperate directory than the homepage? Also, are you sure you're typing in the correct page name? In HTML the filename Rules.html is NOT the same as rules.html.
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Post August 23rd, 2006, 11:03 am

Can you post a link to your site? It'll help a lot.
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Post August 23rd, 2006, 11:03 am

Nightslyr wrote:
are the pages you're trying to link to (example: Rules.html) in a seperate directory than the homepage? Also, are you sure you're typing in the correct page name? In HTML the filename Rules.html is NOT the same as rules.html.

Checking now.

EDIT: Everything is in the same map, and the file names are all capital correct. I deleted the http:// from every link, and now I am back from the beginning. Check the code above, something must be wrong.
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Post August 23rd, 2006, 11:06 am

copy his html that he posted into notepad and save it as test.html and then open it up. Even after you make corrections, the links do not work in FF. It is the bizarrest thing I have ever seen.
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Post August 23rd, 2006, 11:08 am

grinch2171 wrote:
copy his html that he posted into notepad and save it as test.html and then open it up. Even after you make corrections, the links do not work in FF. It is the bizarrest thing I have ever seen.

There must be something wrong with the code.
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