# Navigation external URL issue

**URL:** <https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/navigation-external-url-issue/65593>\
**Category:** Radiant CMS\
**Created:** [August 19, 2006, 4:32pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/navigation-external-url-issue/65593 "2006-08-19T16:32:55Z")\
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**Author:** ![Maurizio\_B](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/m/b3f665/32.png) [@Maurizio\_B](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/Maurizio_B)\
**Post date:** [August 19, 2006, 4:32pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/navigation-external-url-issue/65593/1 "2006-08-19T16:32:55Z")

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Hello. How could I manage to have an url in the navigation tag which is  
like: “[http://www.example.com:8024/](http://www.example.com:8024/)” (see below)? As far as I can tell,  
with  
the current syntax rendering this is not working OK. Thanks.

\<r:navigation urls="il progetto: /it/; audio-video: /it/multimedia;  
documenti: /it/documenti; discussioni: [http://www.example.com:8024/](http://www.example.com:8024/);  
contatti: /it/contatti; "\>

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**Author:** ![Maurizio\_B](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/m/b3f665/32.png) [@Maurizio\_B](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/Maurizio_B)\
**Post date:** [August 19, 2006, 5:23pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/navigation-external-url-issue/65593/2 "2006-08-19T17:23:00Z")

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Maurizio B. wrote:

> Hello. How could I manage to have an url in the navigation tag which is  
> like: “[http://www.example.com:8024/](http://www.example.com:8024/)” (see below)? As far as I can tell,  
> with  
> the current syntax rendering this is not working OK. Thanks.
> 
> \<r:navigation urls="il progetto: /it/; audio-video: /it/multimedia;  
> documenti: /it/documenti; discussioni: [http://www.example.com:8024/](http://www.example.com:8024/);  
> contatti: /it/contatti; "\>

You can’t. Instead your stuck with doing something extremely verbose.  
Here’s how I did it for [radiantcms.org](http://radiantcms.org):

\<r:navigation urls=“Home: /”\>  
\<r:here\> **\<r:title /\>** \</r:here\>  
\<r:selected\>\<r:title /\>\</r:selected\>  
\<r:normal\>\<r:title /\>\</r:normal\>  
\</r:navigation\>  
 |   
\<r:navigation urls=“Demo: /demo/; Download: /download/”\>  
\<r:here\> **\<r:title /\>** \</r:here\>  
\<r:selected\>**\<r:title  
/\>**\</r:selected\>  
\<r:normal\>\<r:title /\>\</r:normal\>  
\<r:between\> | \</r:between\>  
\</r:navigation\>  
 |   
[Development](http://dev.radiantcms.org/)  
 |   
\<r:navigation urls=“Mailing List: /mailing-list/; Weblog: /blog/”\>  
\<r:here\> **\<r:title /\>** \</r:here\>  
\<r:selected\>**\<r:title  
/\>**\</r:selected\>  
\<r:normal\>\<r:title /\>\</r:normal\>  
\<r:between\> | \</r:between\>  
\</r:navigation\>

I’m interested in a patch that would fix this behavior.

–  
John L.  
[http://wiseheartdesign.com](http://wiseheartdesign.com)

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**Author:** ![Maurizio\_B](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/m/b3f665/32.png) [@Maurizio\_B](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/Maurizio_B)\
**Post date:** [August 19, 2006, 6:01pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/navigation-external-url-issue/65593/3 "2006-08-19T18:01:08Z")

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On 8/19/06, John W. Long [removed\_email\_address@domain.invalid](mailto:removed_email_address@domain.invalid) wrote:

> You can’t. Instead your stuck with doing something extremely verbose.  
> Here’s how I did it for [radiantcms.org](http://radiantcms.org):

Thank you. This works for me.

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**Author:** ![Maurizio\_B](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/m/b3f665/32.png) [@Maurizio\_B](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/Maurizio_B)\
**Post date:** [August 19, 2006, 6:05pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/navigation-external-url-issue/65593/4 "2006-08-19T18:05:08Z")

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Incidentally, I noticed that if you leave a blank line at the end of the  
url  
string in the navigation tag, like in:  
\<r:navigation urls="il progetto Governet: /it/; audio-video:  
/it/multimedia;  
documenti: /it/documenti; "\>  
this results in an additional empty

- html sequence.

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**Author:** ![Maurizio\_B](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/m/b3f665/32.png) [@Maurizio\_B](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/Maurizio_B)\
**Post date:** [August 19, 2006, 6:21pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/navigation-external-url-issue/65593/5 "2006-08-19T18:21:11Z")

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ERRATA: “a blank line” CORRIGE: “a blank character”.