Malformed link?

[Doug Laidlaw]

This is probably something very obvious, but I just can't see it.

At http://www.douglaidlaw.net/boykett/timeline.html the last line should
contain a link, and the linking text should be an abbreviated version of
it. Instead, the full link is showing up as plain text and the link tags
are ignored.

What have I done wrong?

Doug.
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[Jukka K. Korpela]

Re: Malformed link?

Doug Laidlaw <laidlaws@myacc ess.com.au> wrote:
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> This is probably something very obvious, but I just can't see it.
>
> At http://www.douglaidlaw.net/boykett/timeline.html the last line should
> contain a link, and the linking text should be an abbreviated version of
> it. Instead, the full link is showing up as plain text and the link tags
> are ignored.[/color]

It contains the following markup:

<a name="http://www.hyperhistor y.com">
http://www.hyperhistor y.com/online_n2/History_n2/a.html</a>

This does not define a link, only a potential destination anchor for a link.
You need to use the 'href' attribute instead of a 'name' attribute. Besides,
you probably wanted to have the URLs reversed:

<a href="http://www.hyperhistor y.com/online_n2/History_n2/a.html">
http://www.hyperhistor y.com</a>

It's however usually a poor idea to use a URL as link text. Link texts are
meant to be readable as such, and it's the 'href' value that needs to be a
URL. Besides, it's misleading to use a URL different from the one in the
'href' attribute. I would suggest something like

<cite><a href="http://www.hyperhistor y.com/online_n2/History_n2/a.html">
HyperHistory</a></cite>

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[Doug Laidlaw]

Re: Malformed link?

Jukka K. Korpela wrote:
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> Doug Laidlaw <laidlaws@myacc ess.com.au> wrote:
>[color=green]
>> This is probably something very obvious, but I just can't see it.
>>
>> At http://www.douglaidlaw.net/boykett/timeline.html the last line should
>> contain a link, and the linking text should be an abbreviated version of
>> it. Instead, the full link is showing up as plain text and the link tags
>> are ignored.[/color]
>
> It contains the following markup:
>
> <a name="http://www.hyperhistor y.com">
> http://www.hyperhistor y.com/online_n2/History_n2/a.html</a>
>
> This does not define a link, only a potential destination anchor for a
> link. You need to use the 'href' attribute instead of a 'name' attribute.
> Besides, you probably wanted to have the URLs reversed:
>
> <a href="http://www.hyperhistor y.com/online_n2/History_n2/a.html">
> http://www.hyperhistor y.com</a>
>
> It's however usually a poor idea to use a URL as link text. Link texts are
> meant to be readable as such, and it's the 'href' value that needs to be a
> URL. Besides, it's misleading to use a URL different from the one in the
> 'href' attribute. I would suggest something like
>
> <cite><a href="http://www.hyperhistor y.com/online_n2/History_n2/a.html">
> HyperHistory</a></cite>
>[/color]

Thank you. All noted. Actually, I did think that the <a name=.. looked
unusual, but it was put there (I think) by Nvu. I edited the original
extensively, and thought that in the end, I had it right.

Doug.
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