RE: A hyperlink keeps changing randomly

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From: A J Hackler (AJHackler_at_discussions.microsoft.com)
Date: 03/22/05 

Date: Tue, 22 Mar 2005 09:39:02 -0800

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

"A J Hackler" wrote:

> 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.
> --
> A J Hackler

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