Website Problem

[imadoofus]

I'm revising my website, and adding a page. I have a colum down the right, which has internal pagelinks in it. I've added a new one, and when you hover over the hyperlink, it behaves properly (goes bold), and if you depress the left mouse button, the correct address appears on the status bar, but it won't click

It's set up exactly the same way as the links above and below it in the column, and they work fine.

What's wrong?

<p>Bla bla bla, this is really interesting. <a href="yawn.html">More...</a></p>

Yes, "Yawn.html" does exist (as opposed to "Yawn.htm"), and everything is in the same folder. It doesn't fail to find the page, it just doesn't click the hyperlink.

 

[Sp!ke]

is it Yawn.html or yawn.html?

 

[imadoofus]

Is that critical? I'm pretty sure it's all lower case (not at PC at the mo)

 

[jaymanek]

sorry to Hijack, but anyone on here that would design me a basic website for our garage business? Something along the lines of Ollys? Ours is years out of date...

of course willing to pay whatever the going rate is....

 

[Sp!ke]

Is that critical? I'm pretty sure it's all lower case (not at PC at the mo)

It can be case sensitive, yes.

I only questioned it because you used one of each.

 

[comports]

Hi Jaymanek,

Happy to help put here. Send me a link to tyour site and I'll have a look at it for it you. Sen dme a link to Ollys as well for reference.

Feel free to Pm me if you'd prefer.

Ash

 

[comports]

Imadoofus - Can you send me a link to your site so I can see the problem..??

It won't be the "case" issue because it would give a 404 error to Yawn.html if the page was yawn.html (If indeed your server host is case sensitive). It tends to be unix servers that rely on case.

If it's not live yet, send me the code for the page with the link on it if you can and I'll see what I can do.

Ash

 

[imadoofus]

Imadoofus - Can you send me a link to your site so I can see the problem..??

If it's not live yet, send me the code for the page with the link on it if you can and I'll see what I can do.

Ash

There isn't much code there at the monent. I have four short paragraphs down the right hand side, and they all look exactly like the example I posted earlier. Even the words aren't much different, becasue I have typed any content yet.

The code I posted was copied and pasted from the HTML (or XML or whatever it is) script I wrote. I created the first link, and then copied and pasted it three times within the HTML, to create the four links. Three of them work, and one (the third) doesn't and yet they are all the same.

I can open the relevant page directly, by double clicking on it, but I can't link to it from other pages in the site. As I said: the hyperlink behaves correctly on hover (so it's definitely been tagged correctly), when you depress the left mouse button, the link address appears in the status bar (and the target page definitely exists), but I just can't make it 'click'

This is a roundabout way of saying that no, I can't post the code, because my laptop is in Mrs Doofus' car, and she's out.


I will check the lower case thing, but I usually code everything in lower case, so I wouldn't have thought that was the problem.

 

[comports]

OK - It would be good to see the code when you get a chance but if you copied and pasted code perhaps there is a rogue "div class" or something thats the same as the one above and causes a conflict.

Unfortunately it's difficult to tell without seeing the code. (or the page). Is it available on line somewhere...?

 

[Nibbo]

Thats odd it looks OK to me.
In fact I just cut and pasted into one of my pages and it works perfectly.

As comports says it would help to see the whole of the source HTML.

If it is live then post the link otherwise feel free to send me a copy and I am sure we can sort it for you.

 

[imadoofus]

No, it's not up online yet, because my existing site is there.

These four links are all within the same div class.

 

[comports]

Is it the site that your profile points to..? ie http://www.pgjones.co.uk/

This is what I got from your right hand side on the services page. Is it just another link below the Business Support Programme.?

<div id="right-column-main">
<h1 class="dot-heading">Our Services</h1>
<p><img class="photo" src="images/jigsaw.jpg" alt="Services"></p>
<p><img src="images/single_dot_small.gif">&nbsp;<a href="freelance.html">Freelance / Interim Management</a></p>
<p><img src="images/single_dot_small.gif">&nbsp;<a href="programme.html">Programme / Project Management</a></p>
<p><img src="images/single_dot_small.gif">&nbsp;<a href="bsp.html">Business Support Programme</a></p>
<p><img src="images/single_dot_small.gif">&nbsp;<a href="healthcheck.html">Business Healthcheck</a></p>
<p><img src="images/divider.gif"></p>

 

[imadoofus]

Is it the site that your profile points to..? ie http://www.pgjones.co.uk/

No. I am revising that site with a whole new layout. The one I have the problem with isn't up yet, because it's not finished.

 

[imadoofus]

Right, here's the code:

<div id="right-col">

<div class="right-col-box">
<h2>Contact Us</h2>
<p><font size="+1">Call us on <b>+44(0)24 7665 9522</b></font><br/><a href="contact.html">Or email us instead</a></p>
</div>
<br>
<br>

<h2>Interim Management</h2>

<p>Lorem ipsum. <a href="freelance.html">More...</a></p>

<h2>Programme Management</h2>

<p>Lorem ipsum. <a href="programme.html">More...</a></p>

<h2>Start-Up & Turnaround</h2>

<p>Lorem ipsum. <a href="startup.html">More...</a></p>

<h2>Business Support Programme</h2>

<p>Lorem ipsum. <a href="bsp.html">More...</a></p>

</div>

The bit in bold is the problem. Below is a grab of Windows Explorer so you can see that the target file does exist. The above code is grabbed from index.html, but it's also there is most of the other pages, and doesn't work in any of them

 

[Nibbo]

That is odd.
Are you saying that links in the anchor tags 1, 2 & 4 work but the link in anchor 3 does not?

 

[imadoofus]

Yep.

 

[Inkyskin]

It looks like you have a space at the end of the name, so it reads startup .html instead of startup.html

Thats going from that screenshot anyhow

 

[imadoofus]

It looks like you have a space at the end of the name, so it reads startup .html instead of startup.html

Thats going from that screenshot anyhow

It does, but I haven't. If you highlight any file in Explorer, you'll see the same thing.

 

[Inkyskin]

Ah okay - I've been using Vista for so long I have forgotten how wierd XP will be at times

 

[stevesey]

Just a hunch - but rename startup.html to something else and change the link.

Does the error occur whe viewing the pages locally through and/or when viewing them via a web server (IIS or Apache or...)