Link issues

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Jerick70

Hello,

I am new to this group and very happy to make your acquaintance. I am
hoping you can help me with an issue I am haveing. I am having an odd
issue with a certain link on a webpage that I support. When I click on
the link to my company web mail, from my company's intranet site, I
receive a "page cannot be displayed" message. When I refresh the same
browser window the site then comes up. And every time after I bring up
the website the link works until I restart the browser. This only
happens in Internet Explorer. Firefox does not have this issue. When
I enter the URL directly into IE this does not happen. Here is the
line from my HTML code that the link is called from (the URL is
omitted):

<a href="https://my.compay.webmail" target="_blank"><img
src="assets/images/arrowright.gif" width="7" height="8" border="0">
Webmail</a><br>

I have run the HTML validator tidy against my webpage and recieve this
warning for this line of code :

<...> lacks "..." attribute
Cause:

An HTML tag has a mandatory attribute. The attribute is missing.
Solution:

Consult the tag definition. Add the missing attribute.
Sample:

<form> lacks "action" attribute

Your help and wisdow would be much appriciated.

Jeff
 
J

Jonathan N. Little

Jerick70 said:
Hello,

I am new to this group and very happy to make your acquaintance. I am
hoping you can help me with an issue I am haveing. I am having an odd
issue with a certain link on a webpage that I support. When I click on
the link to my company web mail, from my company's intranet site, I
receive a "page cannot be displayed" message. When I refresh the same
browser window the site then comes up. And every time after I bring up
the website the link works until I restart the browser. This only
happens in Internet Explorer. Firefox does not have this issue. When
I enter the URL directly into IE this does not happen. Here is the
line from my HTML code that the link is called from (the URL is
omitted):

<a href="https://my.compay.webmail" target="_blank"><img
src="assets/images/arrowright.gif" width="7" height="8" border="0">
Webmail</a><br>

I have run the HTML validator tidy against my webpage and recieve this
warning for this line of code :

<...> lacks "..." attribute
Cause:

Well, from the tiny bit of code that you supply, with 4.01 strict the
IMG element is missing the required ALT attribute and the A element's
TARGET is only valid with framesets, but I doubt that is the cause of
your problem. Caching issue with IE?, Server issue with your company's
DNS server? Security setting on IE? ...
 
N

Neredbojias

Hello,

I am new to this group and very happy to make your acquaintance. I am
hoping you can help me with an issue I am haveing. I am having an odd
issue with a certain link on a webpage that I support. When I click on
the link to my company web mail, from my company's intranet site, I
receive a "page cannot be displayed" message. When I refresh the same
browser window the site then comes up. And every time after I bring up
the website the link works until I restart the browser. This only
happens in Internet Explorer. Firefox does not have this issue. When
I enter the URL directly into IE this does not happen. Here is the
line from my HTML code that the link is called from (the URL is
omitted):

<a href="https://my.compay.webmail" target="_blank"><img
src="assets/images/arrowright.gif" width="7" height="8" border="0">
Webmail</a><br>

Have you tried it after removing the target attribute? Additionally, the
address (uri) is unusual and may be causing IE problems.
 
A

Andy Dingley

Jerick70 said:
This only happens in Internet Explorer. Firefox does not have this issue.

Then use Firefox instead. IE is unusable this week -- recent "security"
"improvements" from the Windows patching malarkey have made IE
_ridiculously_ picky over all sorts of irrelevant cross-domain issues.
It's a nightmare, and there's very little that users or web developers
outside M$oft can do about it, until M$oft sort out the patch mess.
 
J

Jerick70

Jonathan N. Little wrote,
Caching issue with IE?, Server issue with your company's
DNS server? Security setting on IE? ..

I should have posted that I have looked at the DNS server and all is
well. I have tried all settings in IE to no avail, and cleared the
cache many times.
Have you tried it after removing the target attribute? Additionally, the
address (uri) is unusual and may be causing IE problems.

Neredbojias, thank you for your help. I have not tried removing the
target attribute. I will do this and repost with the results. Also,
what do you see that is unusual about the URL?

Andy Digley wrote,
Then use Firefox instead.

I wish I could go to Firefox only. But, we have a few HTML based
accounting programs that must use IE....so I am stuck with IE. I have
to figure out what is going on here and fix it.

..
 

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