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  • July 12, 2014 at 11:41 pm #290646
    Sandy

    Html has been added to a text widget:
    Text

    The link is correct. On the website clicking on the link leads to a ‘page not found’ page. The path of the link on the live site is:
    http://www.website.com/currentpage/“<a href=”http://www.website.com/destinationpage”

    Why is the extra url piece being added to the link? / How can it be removed? / Does your theme require a different widget for html?

    July 13, 2014 at 3:51 am #290694
    Devin

    Hi m!

    The theme is most likely not altering the link. Try formatting like:
    <a href="http://google.com">Google.com link</a>

    Where the url is prefixed by http:// .

    Regards,
    Devin

    July 14, 2014 at 7:38 pm #291221
    Sandy

    Thanks Devin. Your Google link worked fine in the widget. The original text did already have the formatting you suggested, thought it didn’t work. To experiment, I typed in the same original text into your Google link replacing bits as necessary, and it worked! I have no idea why the exact same text didn’t work in the first instance – perhaps there were some invisible characters pasted in. Anyway, its working now! Thanks again.

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