outputting links

Hey guys!

How would you have your server interpret the HTML code
<a href=dkfsjfkdsjkfd>click here</a>

When people click on this link, they are being directed to http://www.mydomain.com/dkfsjfkdsjkfd

with the http://www.mydomain.com tacked on

Not simply dkfsjfkdsjkfd

Remember that dkfsjfkdsjkfd is merely an example substitute for links people enter into a DB

This is probably a basic HTML question/problem that I've never encountered till now!

Whats your question?

Use quotes, and put http:// in front of the url:
<a href="http://www.google.com">Google</a>

My question is this:


I allow users to submit a URL to a database... and some of them may submit it with or without the "http:// "

Thus when the url is pulled from the database, it will not include the "http://"


Do I literally have to check everything that comes in the DB, parse and modify (add http:// for example) if needed?

Or is there a simpler solution to this function?

you only need

<a href="location.html" >linky</a> and this isn't php, no domain defaults to current domain and _use_ " " 's for text

Do I literally have to check everything that comes in the DB, parse and modify (add http:// for example) if needed?

Yep...

Or you could do it at display time.

EDIT: Post #1000.