HTML Hyperlink Help Needed - DPChallenge Forums

Canon EF 70-300mm f/4.5-5.6 DO IS USM

08/16/2008 03:10:20 PM · #1

My website is hosted through ClickImage. You're supposed to be able to add hyperlinks through their easy interface. When I attempt to add one, it won't show on the actual website, although it does appear on the build page.

This photo is the input box for creating the hyperlink. I have no idea what the "ID" and "CLASS" boxes mean and I can't seem to find an answer on the Net. Could this be the source of my failure?
[thumb]710983[/thumb]

I know very little html but have managed to learn to put in my own hyperlink:
href="//blah.com">Title And that works and appears on the website - problem is, when clicked (even with the ctrl key held) it sends my website page to the link - I want it to open a new page/tab/window. I have read about adding the "_blank" into the code, but then it doesn't work again.

So I'm trying to use their built in feature rather than write it myself, in hopes that I can make it work that way. Any ideas?

cpanaioti

Canon EOS-40D

08/16/2008 03:23:26 PM · #2

You need target="_blank" to send it to a new page.

Title

I think that's correct syntax. Someone will correct me if I'm wrong.

Sam94720

Canon EOS-5D Mark II

Canon EF 24-70mm f/2.8L USM

08/16/2008 03:25:14 PM · #3

What she said. ;-)

aliqui

Nikon D300s

Nikon AF-S Nikkor 70-200mm f/2.8G ED VR II

08/16/2008 03:26:00 PM · #4

Originally posted by cpanaioti:

You need target="_blank" to send it to a new page.

Title

I think that's correct syntax. Someone will correct me if I'm wrong.

That's how I've always done it.

Sam94720

Canon EOS-5D Mark II

Canon EF 24-70mm f/2.8L USM

08/16/2008 03:28:36 PM · #5

And a question for the experts here: I realized that the new version of Firefox does something funny. If you open a window with JavaScript and provide a link with target "_blank" in that new window, the linked page will be opened in the parent window. This is particularly annoying when the parent window is hidden behind the one you opened with JavaScript. Users will click and apparently nothing happens...

Why did they change this? Or am I doing something wrong?

Canon EF 24-105mm f/4.0L IS

08/16/2008 03:58:49 PM · #6

Originally posted by aliqui:

Originally posted by cpanaioti:
You need target="_blank" to send it to a new page.

Title

I think that's correct syntax. Someone will correct me if I'm wrong.

That's how I've always done it.

That's exactly what I thought from the reading I've done. But as soon as I type that in myself, the link vanishes from the website page. When I reopen the page editor and look at it again, it's been changed to:
bpennphoto

The quotes around _blank disappear, which I assume is why it becomes invalid.

It appears that the only hope I have is to use the pop-up creator window (shown in the thumbnail in my original post) to do this. And it doesn't work when I try, but I don't know what the ID and CLASS mean, so I think I must have to fill them in.

What do they mean?

Art Roflmao

Canon EOS-6D Mark II

08/16/2008 04:04:28 PM · #7

Originally posted by OdysseyF22:

Originally posted by aliqui:

Originally posted by cpanaioti:
You need target="_blank" to send it to a new page.

Title

I think that's correct syntax. Someone will correct me if I'm wrong.

That's how I've always done it.

That's exactly what I thought from the reading I've done. But as soon as I type that in myself, the link vanishes from the website page. When I reopen the page editor and look at it again, it's been changed to:
bpennphoto

The quotes around _blank disappear, which I assume is why it becomes invalid.

It appears that the only hope I have is to use the pop-up creator window (shown in the thumbnail in my original post) to do this. And it doesn't work when I try, but I don't know what the ID and CLASS mean, so I think I must have to fill them in.

What do they mean?

Try single quotes target='_blank'

Canon EF 24-105mm f/4.0L IS

08/16/2008 04:15:03 PM · #8

Nope.

The creator page has the option to display the text as just text or as html. Anytime I write the "_blank" (single or double quotes) in html mode and switch back to text, then back to html, the quotes vanish and the link fails.

*sigh* Perhaps it's just not supported by the page, to go to a new window. Even though their wizard thing has it as an option.

Art Roflmao

Canon EOS-6D Mark II

08/16/2008 04:22:02 PM · #9

Originally posted by OdysseyF22:

[thumb]710983[/thumb]
...So I'm trying to use their built in feature rather than write it myself, in hopes that I can make it work that way. Any ideas?

Actually, looking at the screenshot, you should just be able to select New Window from the drop down and it would create the link for you. Is that not what you are doing? Sorry, I am unfamiliar with ClickImage, but the UI you pictured looks like it should write the HTML for you.

Canon EF 70-300mm f/4.5-5.6 DO IS USM

08/16/2008 04:29:30 PM · #10

Originally posted by Art Roflmao:

Originally posted by OdysseyF22:
[thumb]710983[/thumb]
...So I'm trying to use their built in feature rather than write it myself, in hopes that I can make it work that way. Any ideas?

Actually, looking at the screenshot, you should just be able to select New Window from the drop down and it would create the link for you. Is that not what you are doing? Sorry, I am unfamiliar with ClickImage, but the UI you pictured looks like it should write the HTML for you.

It should create it for me. But no matter what dropdown I select, it creates a bad link that won't show up on my webpage. (There are never any quotes around the target in the code line when it creates it.)

I've sent their Customer Support an email, but they won't see it until Monday and I want to try and get the site done this weekend, and thought someone here might know what's going wrong. I guess it's a problem in their system.

cpanaioti

Canon EOS-40D

08/16/2008 04:45:45 PM · #11

Originally posted by OdysseyF22:

Originally posted by Art Roflmao:

Originally posted by OdysseyF22:
[thumb]710983[/thumb]
...So I'm trying to use their built in feature rather than write it myself, in hopes that I can make it work that way. Any ideas?

Actually, looking at the screenshot, you should just be able to select New Window from the drop down and it would create the link for you. Is that not what you are doing? Sorry, I am unfamiliar with ClickImage, but the UI you pictured looks like it should write the HTML for you.

It should create it for me. But no matter what dropdown I select, it creates a bad link that won't show up on my webpage. (There are never any quotes around the target in the code line when it creates it.)

I've sent their Customer Support an email, but they won't see it until Monday and I want to try and get the site done this weekend, and thought someone here might know what's going wrong. I guess it's a problem in their system.

Why not just edit the page after it's created and then ftp the new copy to the server. This may be a work around until the support people can provide a solution for you.