# Navigation Tag and External links

**URL:** <https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/navigation-tag-and-external-links/77435>\
**Category:** Radiant CMS\
**Created:** [November 28, 2006, 12:19am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/navigation-tag-and-external-links/77435 "2006-11-28T00:19:02Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 3\
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**Author:** ![bryan](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/b/db5fbb/32.png) [@bryan](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/bryan)\
**Post date:** [November 28, 2006, 12:19am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/navigation-tag-and-external-links/77435/1 "2006-11-28T00:19:02Z")

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Hello,

I am using an external link in a navigation url. The only way I can get  
it work is to use [http://headlines.site.com](http://headlines.site.com).

\<r:navigation urls=“About:/about/; Analysis:/analysis/;  
News:/news/;Resources:/resources/;Sitemap:/site-map/;Headlines:  
/[http://headlines.ushousingreport.com/;](http://headlines.ushousingreport.com/;)”\>  
\<r:normal\>\<r:title /\>\</r:normal\>  
\<r:here\> **\<r:title /\>** \</r:here\>  
\<r:selected\>**\<r:title  
/\>**\</r:selected\>  
\<r:between\> | \</r:between\>  
\</r:navigation\>

When I do this, I receive the following link on the page.

Headlines: /http

Is there a way to force it to show only “Headlines” like the other  
internal links?

Thanks,

Bryan

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**Author:** ![bryan](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/b/db5fbb/32.png) [@bryan](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/bryan)\
**Post date:** [November 28, 2006, 2:38pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/navigation-tag-and-external-links/77435/2 "2006-11-28T14:38:57Z")

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You should probably remove the leading slash. That said, I’m not sure  
how  
it handles external links.

Sean C.  
[seancribbs.com](http://seancribbs.com)

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**Author:** ![bryan](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/b/db5fbb/32.png) [@bryan](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/bryan)\
**Post date:** [November 29, 2006, 11:44pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/navigation-tag-and-external-links/77435/3 "2006-11-29T23:44:47Z")

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Sean,

Thanks for the reply. I found a post that explains that external urls  
are not supported in r:navigation.

Here is the workaround.

[http://www.ruby-forum.com/topic/78055#125849](http://www.ruby-forum.com/topic/78055#125849)

Thanks,

Bryan