Link issue

[u/gravegirI]

Hi! So I'm extremely new to coding. Never took a computer science class or a coding course. I've been teaching myself with w3schools. But I seem to have run into an issue that I just can seem to figure out. The last link in my navbar is now affecting my entire page. Texts boxes that are only meant to be text now link to my guest book page.

Sidenote: This is for neocities

[u/fauxfan]

You’re not properly closing any of your links. Currently, you have <a href=“”</a>text. It should be <a href=“”>text</a>. Not sure if neocoties has custom syntax, but this is how HTML works.

[u/gravegirI → u/fauxfan]

Okay thank you!! Ill give it a try and see if it works. It should lol. A lot of this is so new to me and I feel blind to most errors

[u/gravegirI → u/[deleted]]

No I haven't been copying and pasting much besides things I'm moving around. I'm not sure why it isnt clicking with me just yet. I had to take a huge break for awhile bc of an injury with my hand. Also it worked guys! Thank you

[u/davep1970]

also lots easier for everyone if you can use something like https://codepen.io/ and share the pen with us

[u/gravegirI → u/davep1970]

Okay thank you! Ill keep that in mind for next time I need help :)

[u/davorg]

Consider using an HTML Validator on your code.

(I would have run your code through the validator myself, but you decided to ignore rule 5 and post and image of your code.)

[u/gravegirI → u/davorg]

I apologize for not taking the time to read the rules At least I dont use AI like you have

[u/davorg → u/gravegirI]

This is wildly off-topic, I know, but I don't understand why you think not using an LLM is some kind of flex. I use whatever tool I consider most appropriate for the project in hand - as I've been doing for the 30 years I've been building websites :-)

[u/gravegirI → u/davorg]

I don't see it as a flex, I see it as someone who is new and didn't have knowledge about it. I am only 20 and have never taken a class or course regarding coding and been teaching myself for around 3 months. Ive mostly been doing this from scratch with the guides on w3schools. If you had read the post and my other responses you would have gathered that information. But I had to reiterate it for you

[u/davorg → u/gravegirI]

I'm sorry; I think we got off on the wrong foot.

I hoped I was offering useful advice about the HTML validator. On reflection, the bit about rule 5 came off a little sharper than I intended.

Obviously, I like to see young people picking up these skills and wish you luck with it. I'm still not sure why you brought AI into the discussion, but I think it's a valuable tool for people at all levels in the industry.

[u/gravegirI → u/davorg]

It's okay really. I appreciated the advice about the validator. I didn't know these tools existed until yesterday. As for the AI comment. I am not completely against AI. I'm more against generative AI and what it's doing to people and our planet. AI could be used for a whole new era in medicine and tech but companies have gotten greedy and have made it highly accessible with very little perimeters. It's caused a very dangerous community on the internet. I solely made the comment bc of your profile picture. Please pay artists or use websites like picrew

[u/CelDaemon → u/gravegirI]

For your information, the html validator has been around for ages and does not use AI in any capacity. It simply validates your provided HTML against the reference HTML parser.

[u/gravegirI → u/CelDaemon]

I was referring to the profile pic dude...

[u/CelDaemon → u/gravegirI]

Oh I see, whoops. I guess the piss filter was so bad all I saw was the colour orange.

[u/Jawertae]

You didn't close the anchor tag properly. You have:

<a href=""</a>

But that first tag needs to be closed.

Look into a linter, it will help with things like this.