access to asp hyperlink problem

[obaluba]

Hi, I was wondering if anyone could help or advise me. I think this is just a small problem, but,

I have an access database with some text url's in it ie,

http://www.whatever.com.

When i run my asp code just on my testing site and move over the link it takes me to

http://localhost/www.whatever.com

I'm completely baffled to why it does this!
also how do i get the page to open in its own window? is it by using the 'target="_blank"' but i am unsure of where to put it?

here is the snippet of the troublesome code!

Response.Write &quot;links : <a href=&quot;&quot;&quot; & rs(&quot;links&quot & &quot;&quot;&quot;>&quot; & rs(&quot;links&quot & &quot;</a><br>&quot;

any help would be greatly appreciated

thanks in advance

 

[Tarwn]

The link needs to have an http:// in it or it will assume it is relative link from the same directory the web page is from. If you add that to your anchor tag it should work fine.
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[obaluba]

where do i put this in that statement?! 'target=&quot;_blank&quot;

I put the http in and that worked fine! thanks

 

[Tarwn]

Target is just another attribute, like href or name or id. Therefore you can place it in the tag like so:

<A href=&quot;[URL unfurl="true"]http://www.whatever.com&quot;[/URL] target=&quot;_blank&quot;>Click me</a>

You can also use target in form tags to direct the form to a specific window or frame.

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