Linking a website through image

[+blackdog7]

I'm trying to add a link to the Earthcache website through an image on a cache page. I am absolutely ignorant when it comes to html/code. For some reason it says the link is broken when I try to use it.

 

The html I entered is:

 

<p style="text-align:center;"><a href="www.earthcache.org"><img alt src="http://s5.postimg.org/xnj82txrb/Earthcache_USGS.jpg" /></a></p>

 

Can someone help?

[+TheFrontRanger]

If you remove the img code, and leave just the link, does that work?

Have you tried removing the alt attribute from the img src?

Edited February 24, 2015 by TheFrontRanger

[+blackdog7]

I will try those suggestions. Thanks.

[+niraD]

Have you tried removing the alt attribute from the img src?

Better yet, you could specify the text from the image as the alt attribute:

 

<img alt="Official EarthCache" src="http://s5.postimg.org/xnj82txrb/Earthcache_USGS.jpg" />

 

But that isn't where the problem with the link lies. The problem with the link likes in the difference between

<a href="www.earthcache.org"> and

<a href="http://www.earthcache.org/">

[+blackdog7]

 

But that isn't where the problem with the link lies. The problem with the link likes in the difference between

<a href="www.earthcache.org"> and

<a href="http://www.earthcache.org/">

 

This maybe makes sense to me because it was acting as a link but it took me to a geocaching.com page saying the link was broken or page expired.

 

I'm away from the computer at the moment but can try again when I get home.

 

I figured I was making a simple mistake. Thanks again guys.

[+Chrysalides]

 

But that isn't where the problem with the link lies. The problem with the link likes in the difference between

<a href="www.earthcache.org"> and

<a href="http://www.earthcache.org/">

 

This maybe makes sense to me because it was acting as a link but it took me to a geocaching.com page saying the link was broken or page expired.

 

I'm away from the computer at the moment but can try again when I get home.

 

I figured I was making a simple mistake. Thanks again guys.

Yeah, you're providing a relative URL (so it appends www.earthcache.org to your current URL) instead of an absolute URL if you omit http://

[+blackdog7]

 

But that isn't where the problem with the link lies. The problem with the link likes in the difference between

<a href="www.earthcache.org"> and

<a href="http://www.earthcache.org/">

 

This maybe makes sense to me because it was acting as a link but it took me to a geocaching.com page saying the link was broken or page expired.

 

I'm away from the computer at the moment but can try again when I get home.

 

I figured I was making a simple mistake. Thanks again guys.

Yeah, you're providing a relative URL (so it appends www.earthcache.org to your current URL) instead of an absolute URL if you omit http://

 

Problem solved. It's working perfectly.

 

Cheers