Re: Help me understand links

Not sure I understand the problem, but here is a suggestion.
In your HTML code try typing:

<a href="http://www.domainName.com/index.htm">Go somewhere</a>

Les



"nop90" <bjones_calif (AT) yahoo (DOT) com> wrote

I am sure this is a newbie question...please help me understand this.

When I look at a web page, I see 1 | 2 | 3 links at the bottom of the
page. The source html for those links looks something like this...

1 | <a href="search.dll?blahblah1"
2</a> | <a href="search.dll?blahblah2"
3</a> <a href="search.dll?blahblah3"
/a

When I mouse over or click the 1 link, the root link is added. ie...I see
http://www.site.com/search.dll?blahblah1

If I look in the html source code, I can not find how this root url is
added. In fact a search for "http://www.site.com/search" in the html
source comes up empty. There has to be some reference somehwere in that
html source that makes that link...but I cant find it or dont understand
basic html coding well enough to figure it out.

I am doing some data mining of a website. What I want to do is snatch
those links at the bottom of the webpage and know what root url to add to
them to make them complete, so I end up with a complete url.

TIA

Bob

Hi Bob

When you write a page on your site you don't need to include the full URL of a page on your Server, just the Fielname or Directory/Folder an then the filename or just the Directory/Folder.
If you want to get the full URL To a link on a site, view the source, an if it's just a Filename in the HREF="" attribute, copy that an look at the URL You've loaded into your browser an copy the Domain, and any Directory's/Folders you see there.

Like if you load in http://eatmerawbaby.com/Smut/For/Sale/
An you see a link you want on that page that is Mail.html The full URL to that is http://eatmeraw.com/Smut/For/Sale/Mail.html
Hope that helps

Rob


"nop90" <bjones_calif (AT) yahoo (DOT) com> wrote

I am sure this is a newbie question...please help me understand this.

When I look at a web page, I see 1 | 2 | 3 links at the bottom of the
page. The source html for those links looks something like this...

1 | <a href="search.dll?blahblah1"
2</a> | <a href="search.dll?blahblah2"
3</a> <a href="search.dll?blahblah3"
/a

When I mouse over or click the 1 link, the root link is added. ie...I see
http://www.site.com/search.dll?blahblah1

If I look in the html source code, I can not find how this root url is
added. In fact a search for "http://www.site.com/search" in the html
source comes up empty. There has to be some reference somehwere in that
html source that makes that link...but I cant find it or dont understand
basic html coding well enough to figure it out.

I am doing some data mining of a website. What I want to do is snatch
those links at the bottom of the webpage and know what root url to add to
them to make them complete, so I end up with a complete url.

TIA

Bob