Text unintentionally appears blue as if a link

[PieterH]

Hi,

at random locations in my site, when I have a link somewhere in a text, the entire paragraph up to the linked word appears blue as if a link too (but can not be clicked as a link, that is still only the correct text/word with the link attached).

How can I avoid this?

Thanks, Pieter

[Bernadette3]

Hi @PieterH. It sounds like that could be browser related. Can you try opening up a new browser and see if the links still appear? If you post the url of the affected page we can also check on our end.

[PieterH]

Hi Bernadette,

good suggestion, but no, that's not the reason. Both Explorer and Firefox show the same wrong colouring, so it must be the site.

This is an example on page https://www.maximus-randd.com/tv-tuner-history-pt2.html

This is how I design it in the Weebly tool:

Note the link to "TV factories" inside the paragraph.

Text as in the Weebly editorText as in browsers

As you can see, in the browsers (both!) the entire paragraph up to and including the originally intended link is also blue. However, this text can NOT be clicked as a link, that is still only and correctly possible with the "TV factories" text.

Look forward to your advice!

Kind regards, Pieter

[Adam7]

Is any of that text pasted in, @PieterH?

[PieterH]

Hi Adam,

In principle not, written on the spot so to say. It might have been moved around though, between sections, can't remember.

But to be clear: this happens at multiple locations on multiple pages, the above is only an example. In all cases I've first written the text/paragraph, and then later select the words for the link and insert the link the normal way.

But assuming it was due to pasting, what could I do to detect and remedy it?

Regards, Pieter

[Adam7 · Accepted solution]

Oh, it looks like your anchor tags that you have in Embed Code elements have broken code. That's probably what's doing it. You have this:

<a name="at6320";&nbsp;</a>

And it should be this:

<a name="at6320">&nbsp;</a>

[PieterH]

Hi Adam, fantastic!

This was it; have corrected all these typos and now it's perfect.

Thanks a lo!

Pieter

[Adam7]

Awesome! Glad to hear that.