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Hyperlinks not working in netscape

         

raistlinrandall

7:33 pm on Apr 29, 2003 (gmt 0)

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hello all! I am a newbie at HTML and setting up websites, so be patient with me. I recently started building a website for my church, and I have so far been able to learn everything I needed to either from a few books I have, or scavenging around this website looking for clues. It has been a great experience. I have sermons streaming on the site and everything was great until I got to netscape. I downloaded 4.8, 6.2.3, and 7.02, and they are all having the same problem. When I load up any of my pages, they do not recognize any of my hyperlinks as links. When you roll the mouse over what should be a link, there is no change in the pointing icon, and you definatley can't click on it to go anywhere. Obviously a problem. I am using Frontpage 2002(it was what I could afford to buy. Seems to work great until this.). I went in and set the compatability tab to tell it I only wanted internet explorer and netscape from versions 4 and up. It unchecked the boxes like it said it would. I also have frontpage server extensions on the website as well. Anyway, I couldn't figure out anything using the frontpage graphical interface, so I looked into the html view and proceeded to see if I could figure out what was wrong. I have a book called "HTML and XHTML The definitive Guide", and it looks the same as what they say should work in IE and NN. Here is the code it has for the link on my firstpage (this is from the frontpage html):

<a href="efcc.htm">ENTER</a>

The code for the links is in the same format on all of the pages, except for obviously the name is different. (i.e not ENTER). If any of you have any suggestions? I do not claim to be a netscape guru, so if there is a setting that might cause problems in netscape, let me know what it might be. Thank you for you time.

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raistlinrandall

7:35 pm on Apr 29, 2003 (gmt 0)

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oh, by the way, it does the same thing in opera 7.0, if that makes any difference.
raistlinrandall

jdMorgan

9:04 pm on Apr 29, 2003 (gmt 0)

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raistlinrandall,

Welcome to WebmasterWorld [webmasterworld.com]!

Your link looks fine, so this is some "weird" problem.

In your shoes, I'd build a page with a title and a body consisting only of that link you show. Turn off all the frontpage extensions and all other fancy stuff. Then run the page through the HTML validator at w3c.org and see what results. If it validates, it should work in just about any program that calls itself a browser.

Start with a simple test case, and work up from there.

HTH,
Jim

pageoneresults

9:06 pm on Apr 29, 2003 (gmt 0)

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Do you have a DOCTYPE in your document?

raistlinrandall

9:43 pm on Apr 29, 2003 (gmt 0)

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hey guys,
Thank you for your replies.

jdmorgan, I will try your idea.

pageonresults, I have tried to put onne in, so I could validate it. Frontpage doesn't put one in, and I ended up figuring out how to. It didn't change anything. However, when I tried to validate it, it had a problem with this line:

<html xmlns:v="urn:schemas-microsoft-com:vml" xmlns:o="urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:office" xmlns="http://www.w3.org/TR/REC-html40">

That is all on one line in the HTML editor. Anyway, I went to the W3 website and got the format for a doctyp when I was trying to validate. I really don't know enough to go farther than what I did. I stopped when it told me it didn't like that line. Said something about xmlns not being valid. If you can help out, that would be great.

I will try anything. I want it to work really well.
raistlinrandall

 

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