I am trying to build a personal Homepage, i want to also have links to the main sites i go onto... When i am creating a orderd list , i do the following code below... But when i save and open the file in firefox it displays instead in teh address bar



So i don't know how to cancel that out, there is no file called that in that directory, that isn't even where i am saving the files... :S



That is just an example of what i am using.

Is there anyone that can help me?

First, do not put your links in an ordered list. Use an unordered list for multiple links. Second, no link should have file:/// or C:/ as part of the path if it is to be used online. Nor should you have spaces or uppercase letters in folder/file names. Especially if using XHTML 1.0 Strict. You didn't mention the HTML Editor you are using or whether you know how to hand code HTML/CSS.

You seem to be saying about saving a file. Or you linking to a file on your web site or to a file on another web site? There's no problem with using full path links as long as the full path reflects the directory structure of your site and not the directory structure of your site on your hard drive. A suggestion: always mirror the directory structure on your hard drive with the one actually online.

Ron

This post has been edited by Major Payne: Apr 21 2008, 05:00 PM

I'm using notepad, and I know quite extensive HTMl and learning CSS (You know might know it is not hard to learn anyway)

I have never really came across this problem though.

I am using strict or though for what i want transitional might be better, i'll stick to strict for now though...

Would it help if i showed you all the HTML so far?

and i dont know why it has 3 "/" in it, i didnt put them like that... All i want is a anchor tag that will be in a list (Ordered or not) and link to a site so i thought that i have it correct...

Still why is it linking to that path and not the website?

EDIT:Spelling mistakes =]

This post has been edited by Alex_McIntosh: Apr 22 2008, 02:18 AM

Try

<a href="http://www.geekstogo.com">GeeksToGo</a>

By omitting the protocol it looks for a file called "www.geekstogo.com" on your desktop.

No way another editor did some code insertions before you started with NotePad? That could only account for an Option being set to use full paths and not relative paths.

Ron

This post has been edited by Major Payne: Apr 22 2008, 04:26 PM

I really didnt understand that at all, could you elaborate please?

Might be better to stick with Metallica's answer then. Without the http:// in your links, the browser is not going to look for anything on the web.

Ron

I'll give it a go now

Thanks so far

OK. Just didn't want to get into a lot more explanation without actually seeing your code and the actual page9s) online.

Ron

It's all working now, thanks people!

The problem was that it was searching for the file "www.geekstogo.com" but with the "HTTP://" infront of it it looks on the web.



Thanks again

Glad we could help.