Folders being prepended to my URL?!

[doubledee]

I am noticing some strange behavior in the Tooltip regarding the URL that appears.

Here is some background...

In MySQL, I have this stored in the "summary" field...

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In my Article Listing page, I have this PHP in the HTML section...

PHP Code:

<?php
    // ****************************************
    // Display Article Summaries in Section.    *
    // ****************************************
    while (mysqli_stmt_fetch($stmt1)){
        // Format Published On.
        $publishedOn = date('F j, Y', strtotime($publishedOn));

        echo "<div class='articleSummary'>
                <h3>$heading</h3>
                <a href=''>$image</a>
                <div class='date'>Published: $publishedOn</div>
                $summary
            </div>";
    }
?>

I am in the process of writing a function that will dynamically insert the proper URL into my Summary versus how I had it before which was it being hard-coded.

The problem...

When I hover over the link in the text...

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...I would just expect to see {url} since I stripped out the actual URL that was there before.

But instead, when I hover over the link I am seeing this...

local.debbie/management/{url}

Why is this happening??

Is it because my browser is seeing that I am on the page at http://local.debbie/management/ and so it just prepends that to {url} in the Tooltip??

Thanks,


Debbie

[Fou-Lu]

If you don't specify an absolute url, or a url with a starting path from the root, HTML assumes you mean from where you are. So yes, showing {url} appended to your current location is normal.

[doubledee]

Originally Posted by Fou-Lu

If you don't specify an absolute url, or a url with a starting path from the root, HTML assumes you mean from where you are. So yes, showing {url} appended to your current location is normal.

Okay, thanks.


Debbie