One page theme Bootstrap Navigation Link does not direct to another page, while it works for anchors inside the page - html

Question

I have been using a bootstrap one page theme in my ASP MVC 5 app. Since it is one page, all the navigation links points to anchors inside the page. Then I needed an additional link to direct to another page, but it does not work. When I see the source code, the href is just fine, the hover is also fine, but when clicked it does nothing. Please help me spot the problem.
the problem is here:
<li class="active">Cart (2)</li>
here is the html code:
<nav class="fixed-top" id="navigation" style="top: 0px; opacity: 1;">
<div class="container">
<div class="row-fluid">
<div class="span12 center">
<!-- LOGO -->
<a class="brand pull-left" href="./">
<img src="/assets/images/logo.png" alt="Treble">
</a>
<!-- END LOGO -->
<!-- MOBILE MENU BUTTON -->
<div class="mobile-menu" data-toggle="collapse" data-target=".nav- collapse">
<span class="icon-bar"></span>
<span class="icon-bar"></span>
<span class="icon-bar"></span>
</div>
<!-- END MOBILE MENU BUTTON -->
<!-- MAIN MENU -->
<ul id="main-menu" class="nav-collapse collapse">
<li class="">Home</li>
<li class="">Product</li>
<li class="">About Us</li>
<li>News</li>
<li class="">Contact</li>
<li class="active">Cart (2)</li>
</ul>
<!-- END MAIN MENU -->
<!-- SOCIAL ICONS -->
<div class="social-icons pull-right" id="navRight">
info#panairsan.com
[phone]
</div>
<!-- END SOCIAL ICONS -->
</div>
</div>
</div>
</nav>
Here is the related css classes:
.fixed-top {
position: fixed;
top: 0px;
opacity: 0;
filter: alpha(opacity=0);
}
#navigation #main-menu {
float: right;
}
#navigation .social-icons {
display: none;
}
I think that is all about the code, nothing else seems to be effecting the link. Please let me know if you need more code to solve this weird problem.
I tried this one also:
<a href="./ShoppingCart">
Adding a dot, like the logo that is able to go to home page (refresh the page), but still does not work.
Thanks
Update
I use jquery.scrollTo. Maybe there is something with this plugin?
The theme I use is this one:
Wrapbootsrap - Treble One Page Theme
UPDATE about jquery.scrollTo
I keep searching, and I am narrowing the problem to jquery.scrollTo. It seems that the plugin is preventing the page from going anywhere. Anywone here is experienced with jquery.scrollTo?
UPDATE Routing Mechanism:
routes.MapRoute(
name: "Default",
url: "{controller}/{action}/{id}",
defaults: new { controller = "Home", action = "Index", id = UrlParameter.Optional },
namespaces: new string[] { "percobaan2.Controllers" }
);
IMPORTANT UPDATE
the main problem: the link is active but it does not direct to the linked page. It does not even direct to a 404 page or anything. It just does not execute the href location.

Answer 1

In the href link call the class "external" like this:
<a href="./ShoppingCart"class="external">

Answer 2

i experienced the same some of the element may overlap your link, just increase the z-index of the link separately

Answer 3

I just solved this issue in my project.
The file plugin.js was causing the trouble, in my case, because the template itself was a one-page template.
I commented-out the line:
self.$nav.on('click.onePageNav', $.proxy(self.handleClick, self));
And the links in the nav just work fine.

Answer 4

I had a similar issue with the template. The application.js file has a script that makes this happen. So you should be able to just remove the
scroll class from the a tag to allow redirect.
/* use class="scroll" on the a element to activate*/
$(".scroll").click(function (event) {
event.preventDefault();
//calculate destination place
var dest = 0;
if ($(this.hash).offset().top > $(document).height() - $(window).height()) {
dest = $(document).height() - $(window).height();
} else {
dest = $(this.hash).offset().top - 50;
}
//go to destination
$('html,body').animate({
scrollTop: dest
}, 1500, 'swing');
/* Fix jumping of navigation. */
setTimeout(function() {
$(window).trigger('scroll');
}, 900);
return false;
});

Answer 5

here is the solution on this page:
a href is not going to other pages
open up your console and then click the inspection tools and then click on the link to open what script runs when you click on that link. you have to state an if statement to say: if (".navbar a" =! ".external"){here goes the rest of li that have external links and now it works}
and then add the external links to the li tags that have external links.
if (".navbar a" =! ".external"){
$(".navbar a, footer a[href='#myPage']").on('click', function(event) {
// Prevent default anchor click behavior
event.preventDefault();
// Store hash
var hash = this.hash;
// Using jQuery's animate() method to add smooth page scroll
// The optional number (900) specifies the number of milliseconds it takes to scroll to the specified area
$('html, body').animate({
scrollTop: $(hash).offset().top
}, 900, function(){
// Add hash (#) to URL when done scrolling (default click behavior)
window.location.hash = hash;
});
});
}

Answer 6

The bug is in the smooth scroll function event.preventDefault();
the best and most simple way to do it would be to add a .not('.ext_link')
to the smooth scroll function witch will look something like:
$(".navbar a, footer a[href='#myPage']").not('.ext_link').on('click', function(event) {
and the add to all the external links a class="ext_link"
Hope that works for you...