GED-GEN
Jun 112011
 

Why does nothing happen when I click a link to move between family pages?

If you are using Microsoft Internet Explorer and you click on a link in a family page (or surname or index page), you may find that nothing happens. The web page doesn’t appear and there is no error indication displayed by the browser.

This problem only occurs if your web pages are on your local computer, before you transfer them to your website. Internet Explorer implements tighter security controls. It will not open a web page that is located on your local computer if it contains active content, such as scripts. However once you transfer your web pages to your website on the Internet, you and your visitors should have no problem viewing them.

In order to test the links on your pages before you transfer them to your website, you must tag each web page with the “Mark of the Web.” This is easily done in GED-GEN by clicking the Options button. Then click the Headers tab followed by the Advanced tab and then <HEAD> Block. In the After <HEAD> field there, type the following line:

<!-- saved from url=(0014)about:internet -->

Now click the Multimedia Pages tab and then <HEAD> Block and repeat the above line in the After <HEAD> field there too.

This will mark each web page generated as if it were downloaded from the Internet and thus bypass the local machine security mode. For more information, visit the Microsoft Developer’s Network and search for MOTW.

 Leave a Reply

You may use these HTML tags and attributes: <a href="" title=""> <abbr title=""> <acronym title=""> <b> <blockquote cite=""> <cite> <code> <del datetime=""> <em> <i> <q cite=""> <s> <strike> <strong>

(required)

(required)

*