A hyperlink keeps changing randomly

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A J Hackler

on its own in the coding area which breaks the link completely.

The link I want to use for a graphic is the following:
"http://reviews.cnet.com/4520-7600_7-5565323-1.html?part=RMS&subj=PCWarfare"
target="_blank"

However, if I copy/paste it to the hyperlink address bar after rightclicking
the graphic, invariably it will alter itself to be a couple of different ways
to show in the coding as follows:

<a %20target=%22"_blank%20" href=etc.Warfare%20target=%22_blank%22"

OR

it will be correct but it will drop the l in .html? and change it to .htm?

The only way I can get it to stay correct is to manually go into the code
and delete the entire thing and paste a new path after the <a

I use my own template for my site, and it's correct in the template.....it
only changes when I create the new pages I want, close FPage, and open it
back up. I recheck the hyperlink and it is nearly always changed to whatever
is shown above. Some will have the extra stuff before href= Some will have
the l removed from the .html? in the path And some will still be correct.

This has only been happening since I installed FP2003 as an update over
FP2000 about five days ago, so I will use the suggesting given in the thread
I started yesterday about Reports, and do a repair and hope that will fix
this issue; otherwise I'll be back trying to figure it out. I'll post a
reply to myself here to let you know at least what's happened with the repair.
 
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Thomas A. Rowe

Copy and paste into Notepad, then paste into FP in HTML/Code view

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Steve Easton

Linking to an image on another server is called hot linking, which is "frowned upon"
unless you have permission.

It is better to copy the image and place it on your own server.


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A

A J Hackler

The image is correctly placed in my /images folder and the img source path
after the hyperlink has it correct. It's only the hyperlink that keeps
changing on its own for some reason......and the only way to correct it is to
copy and paste it from notepad right into the code view page, which is what I
mentioned in my first post that I've been having to do.

I just can't understand how it changes randomly from the template when I
create a new page, and the change is always one of the two examples I gave,
with it being correct in the new page only occasionally. The whole purpose
of having a template is so that I don't have to make any changes to the basic
'theme' of the page, and other hyperlinks that have a target="_blank" have no
problem staying intact. It is only this particular one, which happens to be
in my banner on every page, which is why it's so troubling to me when I have
to check it again on all of the pages after I close FP and then reopen it,
and then correct it manually again.

I'm doing the repair of FP2003 now to see if that fixes it for me.

Thanks......TONI
 
W

Windsun

Using copyrighted images on your site is not considered good form. In fact,
it makes lawyers happy.
 
A

A J Hackler

I work as a Moderator in the CNET Computer Help Forums......the link is not
their logo (I've already talked with their legal department about what to
use). Instead it is a text graphic I created that just says FORUMS that
links back to their Forums List page from my site. I've used a similar
hyperlink before when it was the ZDNET forums before CNET purchased them.
They approved it after I sent them a link to my home page and they saw that
it opened in a new window and that it wasn't being used in a way that the
link would be interpreted that my site was part of their
organization....which is why I didn't use their actual CNET logo button.

The text image I created is in my website /images folder and the image
source code is correctly pointing to it, so the image isn't the problem.
It's actually FP changing the hyperlink path randomly once I've created the
pages using my template (which includes all background images, tables, color
schemes, fonts, my logo graphic, the hit counter). The hyperlink path stays
constant in the template...it's only changing in the new pages I create once
I've closed FP and reopened it later to work on creating more new pages.

At that point, if I check the most recent pages I created, I find that the
hyperlink code has been changed and I have to manually copy and paste it from
Notepad back into the code for each of the new pages, and it will stick
finally.

I just did the repair after making sure all of the new pages were correctly
coded for this hyperlink, closed FP, and reopened it.......and so far the
link is staying intact. I'll know more after I create a few new pages, close
FP, reopen it and check those new ones. But for right now it seems I had a
corrupt/broken installation that might be the cause, and hopefully the repair
corrected it.

Thank you all.....

TONI
 
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