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Last Updated: Saturday July 14 2012 - 06:07:17

Relative Links


Poster: kcorkre __at__ hotmail.com
Dated: Wednesday July 28 2004 - 2:42:09 BST

Hello all,

I have a menu in development and keep getting an error that says invalid argument on line 16 when I rollover a menu with subs and a relative link. I know that is not much to go on but i have narrowed it to this:

This does not cause the error:

aI("text=Home;url=http://www.milonic.com/mylicenses.php;");

This does:

aI("text=Home;url=index.asp");

I think it is looking for a www. becasue if i hard code the path like this:

aI("text=Home;url=http://www.localhost/web/home/index.asp");

then i do not get the error. I know that does not make sense with the http://www.localhost, but when I remove the www. i get the error again.

Is there a way to set it to use relative paths? i am not ready to post to production or i would just make all the paths absolute and forget it.

any ideas? i would think it should be an easy one :)


Poster: John
Dated: Wednesday July 28 2004 - 14:41:39 BST

Got a URL we can look at?

Here is the link


Poster: kcorkre __at__ hotmail.com
Dated: Thursday July 29 2004 - 1:38:24 BST

Use this link and rollover the Home Link at the top a coulple of times.

http://www.sixstring.org/newsite/index.asp


Notice the path for the directions link is: url=http://www.localhost/corkrean/sixstring/index.asp;

and it is not giving the error. Crazy huh


Thanks for the help,

Kevin


Poster: John
Dated: Thursday July 29 2004 - 18:37:30 BST

When I roll over Home I get http://www.sixstring.org/newsite/index.asp.

Are you saying your not getting a JavaScript error?


Poster: kcorkre __at__ hotmail.com
Dated: Tuesday August 3 2004 - 1:36:57 BST

When you rollover this link? Is anyone else getting an "Invalid Argument line 16" error? I really need to figure out if using a relative path is possible, I can not understand why it would not be.

Thanks,

Kevin

Re: Are you saying your not getting a JavaScript error?


Poster: timrivera
Dated: Tuesday August 3 2004 - 4:23:52 BST

kcorkre __at__ hotmail.com wrote:
Is anyone else getting an "Invalid Argument line 16" error?

I had no problems in Opera 7.53 or Firefox 0.9.2, however the links do not change color on rollover in Firefox.

In IE6, I didn't notice any actual problems, however I do get the "Error on page." message at the bottom-left corner after I rollover "Home". This is the error details I get when I double-click the error icon:

Line: 17
Char: 6688
Error: Invalid argument
Code: 0
URL: http://www.sixstring.org/newsite/index.asp

thanks


Poster: kcorkre __at__ hotmail.com
Dated: Tuesday August 3 2004 - 4:32:15 BST

For the Reply, can someone post a link to a site they do not have trouble with. I would like to see what i am doing wrong. I really need this to work here soon and I am lost.

Thanks for you time,

Kevin

Re: thanks


Poster: timrivera
Dated: Tuesday August 3 2004 - 8:19:58 BST

kcorkre __at__ hotmail.com wrote:
can someone post a link to a site they do not have trouble with

www.FallenHeroesMemorial.com/OIF


Tim


Poster: John
Dated: Tuesday August 3 2004 - 15:02:44 BST

The error only occurs when rolling off the Home link, but none of the others (didn't happen that way the other day). The only things I see are...
Code:
aI("text=Home;url=index.asp");

...should be...
Code:
aI("text=Home;url=index.asp;");

...and...
Code:
drawMenus()

...should be...
Code:
drawMenus();

...but I don't really think either one of those should cause this on only one link.

Also, you're 4 levels down - 5.37a is current - and the link to Milonic needs to show, not be hidden as you have done (assuming, of course, you're after additional support from the Team!). :)

thanks


Poster: kcorkre __at__ hotmail.com
Dated: Tuesday August 10 2004 - 1:13:36 BST

John,

Thanks for all the help. I started using the new version 5.4 and everything seems to be working fine. I was not able to figure out what I was doing wrong, but i am happy now. I am sorry about hiding the link, I thought that satisfied the requirements. I will be happy to show the link in the footer of the site.

Have a great day.

Kevin

Re: thanks


Poster: John
Dated: Tuesday August 10 2004 - 15:18:03 BST

kcorkre __at__ hotmail.com wrote:
Thanks for all the help. I started using the new version 5.4 and everything seems to be working fine. I was not able to figure out what I was doing wrong, but i am happy now. I am sorry about hiding the link, I thought that satisfied the requirements. I will be happy to show the link in the footer of the site.

You're welcome.

To be fair, if you think about it, we're giving you a great product for free, but you (were) hiding the source of that product. Doesn't make much sense from our viewpoint, yes?

That said, we appreciate your understanding and compliance. :D