Using an external link with r:navigation

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My client wants a link in their nav that is outbound. I have their nav
setup through the <r:navigation> tag, but there is a problem using
absolute URLs

<r:navigation urls=“About: /about | Foo: http://foo.com”>

This generates a link that does go to the right place, but the display
text is:

“Foo: http”

Is there a trick to getting this to work right? or is this just not
something this tag supports right now?

2

Alex,

Yes, it is unsupported. Since that item will never be selected,
however, you could make it its own link sitting by itself. I know
that’s not the ideal solution, but I’ve done it several times in
different circumstances. Depending on the order of your URLs, you may
have to break it into two <r:navigation> tags.

Sean

3

Decimal-Entity Notation worked for me:

<r:navigation urls=“Home: /|Photographs:
http://www.externalsite.com”>

A double slash seems to work too:

<r:navigation urls=“Home: /|Photographs: //www.externalsite.com”>

But it shows up in the HTML that way, it’s not very standard, and I
didn’t test it in all browsers.