sometimes a link wont work.. why?

[cvsouth]

http://www.crahncss.com

this is a site i have been working on for the last two day, on the navigation, using firefox, sometimes the 'Scripts' button will work, and sometimes it wont. The others seem fine.

I would very much appriciate it if someone who knows abit more than me could have a scan over the code and see if they know whats wrong with it.

Thanks in advance!

Colin.

[cvsouth]

I solved it by adding:

onclick="window.location='?module=scripts'"

in addition to the:

<a href="scripts"></a>

... just as a backup.

still wondering what was wrong though.

Thanks

[BigAlReturns]

I don't know if you changed the code since you posted this, but I couldn't see a reason why it would work unreliably. What I would recommend though is always using absolute links in hrefs, not relative - i.e. include the full link address, http://www.etc even if its to another page on your own site. This helps prevent errors, and has the added advantage of giving you incoming links if some thieving no good type scrapes your content!!

[ryanhellyer]

Originally Posted by BigAlReturns

.. has the added advantage of giving you incoming links if some thieving no good type scrapes your content!!

That's a very good point. I hadn't thought of that issue.

Content scraping seems to be an increasing problem for blogs in particular and any way to help either direct visitors back to your site or at least direct some page rank back would be helpful in the war on scrapers

[simonejones]

Originally Posted by cvsouth

I solved it by adding:

onclick="window.location='?module=scripts'"

in addition to the:

<a href="scripts"></a>

Can i just ask where exactly in the code this goes?

..as this may solve my problem of some pages having scripts that work fine and others that don't...

much appreciated

[BigAlReturns]

Originally Posted by simonejones

Can i just ask where exactly in the code this goes?

The onClick is an attribute of the anchor tag, so combined they would look like this:

<a href="scripts" onclick="window.location='?module=scripts'"></a>

To be honest though I don't see a reason why this would fix anything, although obviously it did for the OP. If this doesn't solve your problem then come back and link us to an example of a script not working and we'll be happy to have a look through the code and hopefully offer a solution.