Thanks all! I needed to put the curly brackets around the website
variable. Dumb mistake on my part. It works now!
Thanks!
<td ><a href="{{researchproject.website}}">
{{ researchproject.institution|
> > safe }}</a></td>
On Jan 28, 2:15 pm, Karen Tracey <kmtra...@gmail.com> wrote:
> On Wed, Jan 28, 2009 at 4:28 PM, May <adles...@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> > Hello,
>
> > I am extracting data from a postgres table into an html table. I have
> > two columns.
>
> > The user can select the link in this column, the link will be returned
> > through the URL and view.py to extract more information from the
> > postgres table:
> > <td ><a href="{{researchproject.id}}"> {{ researchproject.restitle|
> > safe }}</a></td>
>
> > This column will have the http:// address for an institution, which I
> > would like the user to be able to directly link to an external
> > website. My error is that django won't allow me to directly link to
> > an external website without first assigning a URL and a view. How can
> > I override django on this?
>
> > <td ><a href="researchproject.website">{{ researchproject.institution|
> > safe }}</td>
>
> > Thanks for any help.
>
> What do you mean "django won't allow me to directly link to an external
> website"? Django doesn't care what links you include on your pages. In the
> example you give you are specifying "researchproject.website" as an href.
> That's a relative link, so when you click on it the browser will request the
> linked page from the same server where it got the page containing the link.
> If you want to link to an entirely different site, you need to specify your
> href value to reflect that, something more like:
>
> <a href="http://researchproject.website";>{{ researchproject.institution
>
> }}</a>
>
> Karen
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