Browser Viewing / Testing?

Question

I must be mad , I'm a newbe but have some background ....
great software ... problem I can make all the pages fine ,,,test
them all indivigully they all show up 100% by themself in the
browser ... but when I link the pages from the index page and then
test the links the browser linked page show up with broken links
for most of the items .... what and i doing wrong in the linking or
what am i doing wrong with the linked page ?????

Answer 1

This is usually the symptom of using ROOT relative links in
your page.
See - if you have a) your PREFERENCES set to use temp files
on preview, and
b) you have used ROOT relative links, here is what happens -
Your page has a link like this -
<a href="/whatever.html"....
When you preview this, DW changes that link in the temp file
so that it
looks like this -
<a href="whatever.html"... (depending on where that file
actually is located
in the site)
AND the link works from your previewed browser view. BUT,
when you click on
it to bring up "whatever.html", and that page contains a link
that also
looks like this - <a href="/whatever2.html", but now DW's
smoke and mirrors
presto-changeo modification is out of the picture and the
browser sees that
leading slash as referring to the root of the hard drive, not
the root of
the site (the browser has no idea where the root of the site
is).
So, as Alan says, it is often not a good idea to 'click
through' your pages
like this UNLESS you really understand how this works.
Murray --- ICQ 71997575
Adobe Community Expert
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>I must be mad , I'm a newbe but have some background ....
great software
>...
> problem I can make all the pages fine ,,,test them all
indivigully they
> all
> show up 100% by themself in the browser ... but when I
link the pages from
> the
> index page and then test the links the browser linked
page show up with
> broken
> links for most of the items .... what and i doing wrong
in the linking or
> what
> am i doing wrong with the linked page ?????
>