Is this true? I'm working on an mvc3 application in visual studio and I want the image I'm using as the header to be a link back to the home page, but since I'm just running it locally I'm using this line as the code:
<a href="localhost:60060">
<img src="../../Content/images/LionLabs.png" alt="Lion logo">
</a>
This doesn't work though! am I doing something wrong, or is it just that localhosts can't be used as this?
I also just tried using a javascript method as the href to refresh the page, but that didn't work either :(
Since links by default start at the domain, there is no reason to specify it. You can just use /.
<a href="/">
<img src="../../Content/images/LionLabs.png" alt="Lion logo">
</a>
HTML links work just fine with localhost:
<a href="http://localhost:60060/">
<img src="../../Content/images/LionLabs.png" alt="Lion logo">
</a>
The issue here is that just using localhost:60060 attempts to use a relative path, so the browser is actually looking for http://localhost:60060/localhost:60060/, which, of course, is an invalid path.
Also, you should not use absolute paths when linking between pages of your application, because that becomes a nightmare when you need to change domain names (like, deploying your application to the web).
To make your code more MVC friendly, do this:
<a href="#Url.Action("Index", "Home")">
<img src="#Url.Content("~/Content/images/LionLabs.png")" alt="Lion logo">
</a>
What's happening here is that the ASP.NET MVC Url helper is supplying the proper path information when the page is served out to the user, so it automatically accommodates any changes in the server. It also allows you to use your Routes to best effect, because you can easily change the route (ie the URL) of a link but still use the same controller and view.
The links for <a href=""> don't differ from the links for <img src=""> .
You shouldn't use absolute path, because, when you deploy your project, the site name will not be localhost:60060.
For main page use
Change this:
<a href="localhost:60060">
<img src="../../Content/images/LionLabs.png" alt="Lion logo">
</a>
To this:
<a href="#Url.Action("Index", "Home")">
<img src="#Url.Content("~/Content/images/LionLabs.png")" alt="Lion logo">
</a>
Why?
It's better to use #Url.Action as that will use any custom routing you set in Global.asax. Can you imagine modifying every single link reference on a complex site if you have to change your url routing? :)
Use #Url.Content, as that will correctly resolve to the root of your application, taking away the uncertainty of using ../ or ../../ or ../../... It's cleaner!
You have used href as localhost:60060. It should be a page (may be default.html or something like that).
Related
I am trying to create a download link to a file I've created but it is not working. I've tried it without the <img> and without the download specification but nothing seems to work!
<a href="Downloadable File.txt" download="file">
<img src="downloadbutton.png">
</a>
All it does is redirect me to a page without the file downloading like it's supposed to, how do I fix this?
Try this and make sure that your file exists on the server or at least at the right path.
<a href="path/to/your/download/file" download="filename">
<img src="downloadbutton.png">
</a>
It is not download="file".
It should be download only.
And please check your href. It should be some path to your file.
<a href="path/to/your/file.txt" download>
<img src="downloadbutton.png">
</a>
I am trying to make my logo clickable to go back to the homepage but can't seem to get it to work.
Any help appreciated...
<!-- logo begin -->
<div id="logo">
<a href="index.html">
<img class="logo logo_dark_bg" src="images/logo.png" alt="/">
<img class="logo logo_light_bg" src="images/logo_light.png" alt="/">
</a>
</div>
<!-- logo close -->
Your anchor currently work only from the root so you should update your reference to be from the root as well, so href="/index.html" note the starting "/". The Same applies to your src links:
<div id="logo">
<a href="/index.html">
<img class="logo logo_dark_bg" src="/images/logo.png" alt="logo">
<img class="logo logo_light_bg" src="/images/logo_light.png" alt="logo">
</a>
</div>
Starting an anchor link with a / means it sources from the root so that wherever the above code is based (such as in site.com/currentfolder/file.html) it will always connect with your home page which would typically be found in site.com/index.html.
Currently (without the leading /) the anchor link is looking for site.com/currentfolder/index.html which is almost certainly looking for a file which is not the welcome or home page.
Update
Also you need to ensure that the home page file does actually exist. Typically in your case the home pages may be /index.htm rather than /index.html. Please ensure that the file with the correct filetype HTML reference (.html or .htm) exists and is referenced correctly.
Summary Issues
Anchor href file should be absolute reference starting with /
Anchor href file must exist, with the correct filetype (.html or .htm, etc.).
image src should be absolute reference (starting /).
image alt should be the website name and/or logo description.
Okay, this is so simple yet I don't know how to do it.
I use vhost that makes localhost/wamp/www/blog/public become blog.dev
sample:
Stack Overflow
expected result: go to stackoverflow.com
what it actually does: go to blog.dev/stackoverflow.com
So, how should I do?
First of all, if you use a relative URL like above, your browser will assime that it's a URL relative to the URL you're currently browsing. That's why
<a href="stackoverflow.com">
links to blog.dev/stackoverflow.com
Replace
<a href="stackoverflow.com">
with the absolute URL
<a href="http://stackoverflow.com">
to get what you need.
Secondly, you could add target attribute to your URL if you want to open the link in a new window/tab:
<a href="http://stackoverflow.com" target="_blank">
I've added a page link to a picture for my website, but it does not load the website because the link goes the directory therefore the webpages do not appear. My code is below:
<a href="www.w3schools.com">
<img src="Images/insta.png" alt="" style="width:7%; height:7%;">
</a>
When I click on the image it says file not found.
If you're linking to a page on an external site, you will need to provide the entire URL of the page in question, which includes the protocol. In this instance, that would be http://www.w3schools.com/.
By linking to www.w3schools.com, you are telling the browser to load that URL relative to the page you're linking from so, if this link were on a page located at http://domain.tld/page.html, clicking on it would attempt to load http://domain.tld/www.w3schools.com.
Add http:// OR https:// for your website link:
<a href="http://www.w3schools.com/">
<img src="Images/insta.png" alt="" style="width:7%; height:7%;">
</a>
<a href="http://www.w3schools.com" target="_blank">
<img src="Images/insta.png" alt="" style="width:7%; height:7%;">
</a>
Without the http:// your link will be something like: youraddress/www.w3schools.com
And pay attention if you image is in the correct folder called Images
I am trying to include a logo to my MVC 4 site. Upon clicking on that logo, it should navigate to the home screen. I am using the following piece of code in the _Layout.cshtml file to achieve this.
<a href='<%= Url.Action("Index","Home") %>'> <img src="../Images/logo.JPG" /></a>
In internet explorer, if I click on the logo, nothing seems to be happening. But in Google Chrome, I am getting the error as Bad Request - Invalid URL . The URL content is
http://localhost:3347/Home/%3C%=%20Url.Action(%22Index%22,%22Home%22)%20%%3E
Please let me know if I am making any mistake here.
Try
<a href='#Url.Action("Index","Home")'> <img src="../Images/logo.JPG" /></a>
or you can use
<a href='/'> <img src="../Images/logo.JPG" /></a>
If the root of your site is '/' i.e. it still ends up going to Home/Index anyway, if that's the default configured in RouteConfig.RegisterRoutes().
Your problem is that it's literally setting the link to <%= Url.Action("Index","Home") %>, not the results of that call. Razor templates don't use the <%= %> syntax. Try the following instead:
<a href='#Url.Action("Index","Home")'> <img src="../Images/logo.JPG" /></a>
Also, when dealing with static assets, you should use Url.Content, which will prefix the correct application path for you so you don't end up breaking links in various deployment scenarios:
<img src="#Url.Content("~/Images/logo.jpg")" />