Q
My links aren’t being
highlighted in blue or purple at all. They’re still just plain text.
A
Is the filename
in a name attribute rather than in an href? Did you remembers to close the
quotation marks around the filename to which you’re linking? Both of these
errors can prevent links from showing up as links.
Q
I put a URL into
a link, and it shows up as highlighted in my browser, but when I click it, the
browser says “unable to access page.” If it can’t find the page, why did it
highlight the text?
A
The browser
highlights text within a link tag whether or not the link is valid. In fact, you don’t even need to be
online for links to show up as highlighted links, although you can’t get to
them. The only way you can tell whether a link is valid is to select it and try
to view the page to which the link points.
As to why the
browser couldn’t find the page you linked to –make sure that you’re connected
to the network and that you entered the URL into the link correctly. Also
verify that you have both opening and closing quotation marks around the
file-name, and that those quotation marks are straight quotes. If your browser
prints link destinations in the status bar when you move the mouse cursor over
a link, watch that status bar and see whether the URL that appears is actually
the URL you want.
Finally, try
opening the URL directly in your browser and see whether that solution works.
If directly opening the link doesn’t work either, there might be several
reactions why. The following are two
common possibilities:
·
The server is overloaded or is not on the
internet.
Machines go down, as do network connections.
If a particular URL doesn’t work for you, perhaps something is wrong with the
ma line or the network. Or maybe the site is popular, and too many people are
trying to access it at once. Try an later. If you know the people who run the
server, you can try sending them electronic mail or calling them.
·
The RUL itself is bad.
Sometimes URLs become invalid. because a URL
is a form of absolute pathname, if the file to which it refers moves around, or if a machine or directory
name gets changed, the URL won’t be valid anymore. Try contacting the person or
site you got the URL from in the first place. see whether that person has a
more recent link.
Q
Can I put any URL
in a link?
A
Yup, bet. If you
can get to a URL using your browser, you can put that URL in a link. note,
browser, that some browsers support URLs that others don’t. for example, lynx
is really good with mailto URLs 9URLs that enable you to send electronic mail
to a person’s email address ). When you select a mailto URL in lynx, it prompts
you for a subjects and the body of the message. When you’re done, it sends the
mail!.
Q
My links aren’t
pointing to my anchors, when I follow a link, I’m always dropped at the top of
the paper rather than at the anchor. What’s going on here?
A