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Rory Woods
Rory Woods

Reputation: 3

Absolute href address resolves with prepended relative link?

I'm a bit baffled about this, so I'm guessing I must be overlooking something very simple or obvious.

I'm trying to provide some external links on a page advertising a bicycle, but the absolute links are resolving with the relative path prepended to it. Here is [the page] https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/9972753/rambler.htm.

Click on any link and you'll see they resolve as:

location of HTML file(Dropbox)/"absolute link"

Any help would be much appreciated.

Thanks! Rory

Upvotes: 0

Views: 645

Answers (1)

Val
Val

Reputation: 217254

You're not using the correct double quotes characters. You must use " instead of ” otherwise your browser will add the correct double quotes itself and use the document base of the page (i.e. the dropbox link) as a prefix of whatever comes after the href attribute. In your case that includes the whole URL with the wrong doubles quotes, which the browser thinks are part of a relative URL (since the URL doesn't start with either an URL scheme (e.g. http://) or a forward slash.

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PS: Is it possible that you've copy-pasted these links from Word or something?

Upvotes: 2

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