If I add a random string as the URL fragments to a url while it is not pointing to any element on the page, Can I make sure that it does not break up any thing?
For example let's say that I want to open http://example.com with my Firefox browser, if I add a random string to the url as a fragment such as http://example.com#t1234567843 while t1234567843 is not related to any of the page's elements, Can I make sure that the browser can always open the page without error (regardless of the web application or the filetype: XML, html, xhtml, html5, ...)?
According to my research and testing, generally, no. An invalid URI Fragment does not 'break the page load'. However, take note of Ismael Miguel's and dayuloli's comments above. I believe both are correct and noteworthy.
See also this question: What is href="#" and why is it used?. It details that the URI Fragment is only interpreted locally by the browser. If it references an nonexistent location within the document, the browser simply loads the document and positions as per usual (top of the page).
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I was working on tag and let say my domain was www.abc.com. If I use href="http://example.com" it does properly navigate to intended url. However if I use href="www.example.com" it doesn't navigate to intended url.
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I was reading the anchor specs in https://html.spec.whatwg.org, unfortunately could not find this specific case.
The browser must know if you want to link to another website or a different file/page of your own website. The browser always asumes that you want to link to a file on your own server if you do not specifiy the protocol.
In fact: The only reason you can leave the protocol out when typing a url into the addressbar of your browser is because the browser just asumes that you want to use the http-protocol. This is not possbile with urls inside the A tag.
If you don't specify an absolute url it will think it's a route inside your site.
Possible values using href attributes:
An absolute URL - points to another web site (like href="http://www.example.com/default.htm")
A relative URL - points to a file within a web site (like href="default.htm")
Link to an element with a specified id within the page (like href="#top")
Other protocols (like https://, ftp://, mailto:, file:, etc..)
A script (like href="javascript:alert('Hello');")
Because When you click on it.. Your Browser Will suppose he need to find this link in the same file extension.
Example: if your html file extension is e://tst.html
when click on tag at Browser it will go to e:// and search about file with name "www.google.com" and not find it..
Use not properly navigate to inform Browser you need to navigate to Another website
I am trying to do a simple thing , navigate to an external url
Class Books
However I am getting a 404 because the Http// portion is being deleted I am not sure if this is an mvc thing or html thing. Here is link http://18.217.228.108/angularapp1.
Here is a link to a screen shot of me accessing url
https://gyazo.com/455b01f1ceded24f9b4ce6c58b0e10e1
Curious-programmer,
You must navigate using an absolute URL just when it is out of your domain such as https://www.amazon.com/
However, I've noticed that you are trying to navegate to a link inside your own domain using absolute URL when you must use relative URL like:
Class Books
Try
Anchor Test
and then try keying http://18.217.228.108/angularapp1/book/ into your browser url.
The link you are using is actually 404.
Based on the link given in updated question:
The new link you've given is an html page (which you can navigate to in the "normal way"). It links to an angular app with an anchor "Books". Clicking on "Books", whilst attaching "book/" to the url in the browser (the url you're trying to link to in your original question), is intercepted by the script and actually navigates to:
http://13.59.126.130/BuellerWebApi_deploy/api/book/getAll
which returns a Json object containing data to display on the same page.
(Your concern about the removal of the http:// in the anchor is a red-herring (try navigating to http://www.bbc.com - you will see www.bbc.com in the browser url). It's the way your app has been configured.)
So, as things stand, navigating to the anchor in your original question, whilst appearing to be a valid url, actually is not. Its a 404.
I'm working on an email, and the writer wants the link to go directly to a video on a page. This video is in a tab, and lower on the page.
I set up an anchor to go to the video, but once Universal Analytics tracking has been added to the URL, the anchor link no longer works.
Works:
Link Text
Loads Page Without Going to Anchor:
Link Text
Is there anything I can do to get the anchor link to work properly?
I think the URL is a bit malformed in the second example (it may work but it's not what you mean to be accessing necessarily)
Try using:
http://www.foo.com/page-name/?tabset0=1&utm_source=foo-source&utm_medium=foo-medium&utm_content=foo-content&utm_campaign=foo-campaign#anchor-name
Fragment identifiers / anchor (as you refer to it) are supposed to be given at the end (the very end) of the address-- if you put it in the middle of the query it won't be passed correctly. In fact, fragment identifiers aren't given to the server. Only the client gets those... the CGI query is definitely given to the server.
Here's some more info: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fragment_identifier
So I have an internal link that leads to another page in the website. However, when clicked and hovered, it appears to lead just back to the page it is on.
a href scr ="../countries/list.html">here</a>
I am certain this is the correct path to the file (up a level and then down into that directory).
The actual link on the webpage leads to
file:///C:/Users/alex.mckinley/Desktop/Kronos%20Import%20Guidlines/home/home.html
when it should lead to
file:///C:/Users/alex.mckinley/Desktop/Kronos%20Import%20Guidlines/countries/list.html
Any thoughts?
I am using the most updated version of Firefox to test this in if that matters
You've inserted the characters scr between the name (href) of the attribute and the rest (="some URL").
This renders your HTML invalid (use a validator, it will spot this type of issue for you) and is the cause of your problem.
Beginner question:
Every .html page we create requires tags to start and end html file an recognize it as a html file.
But even when I don't give any HTML tags and simply write a text in .html file, the file gets opened in the browser with the text I have written in the .html file without using any of the HTML tags.
How is the text getting displayed in the browser without using any HTML tags?
Does the browser automatically add HTML tags behind the scenes??
When I viewed the page source in that also it shows simply the text not the HTML tags...
This is a very simple question but driving me nuts please help me
Yes the browser automatically add HTML tags behind the scenes:
look:
My HTML file:
In my browser (F12 in chrome to get this OR CTRL+U to get the source code):
Yes, if you don't supply any tags, the browser will add some default tags. It knows it's HTML because the server sends the header
Content-type: text/html
If you open the Developer Tools (usually with F12) you can view the synthesized DOM and see the tags that the browser added automatically.
Browsers aren't just software which renders perfect (X)HTML.
They do quite different and often more complicated jobs like:
Fixing malformed HTML
Adding missing tags
If you want to know which HTML structure gets rendered by the browser, take a look at the developer console.
Additionally, the file extensions .html or .htm do not matter. The MIME type which gets sent by the server determines the render mode.
This is why you could create an URI route http://example.com/test.gif which renders as a normal HTML page.
Only if the server (e.g. when accessing from your hard drive) does not provide a MIME type, the browser may try its Content sniffing algorithms.
Because of the .html extension the browser automatically knows that it is HTML, meaning you don't need the HTML tags (however, this is bad practice)...
As for the text being displayed, that is because the text does not need to be inside any special tags in order for it to be shown.
I hope this helps you a bit, let me know if you need further help!
I do not know whether the question is still current, but one solution is to open the HTML document in MS Word. In this case you see only the formatted content.