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larry45
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November 2, 2017
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How find the broken link?

  • November 2, 2017
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DW makes a broken link report and shows the file the broken link emanates from, and what the link is you created. But then how to you find that link on a busy page, for example, a site map with a lot of anchor text to those links?

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    B i r n o u
    B i r n o u
    Community Expert
    November 3, 2017

    Are you talking about the link checker dialog box ?

    if so when the search and repport are done, you will get a list of all the broken list, if you then want to accees to a specific link, just double click on this line, and you will get directed to the appropriate location?

    if that wasn't the question... please could you reformulate ?

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      larry45Author
      Inspiring
      November 3, 2017

      Nancy, Birnou, Ben:

      DW says I have a broken link. I export that  to an excel sheet.

      Then I go into DW, and I go to the page that has the broken link. That html page could have 30 live links on it - of which I created . To find this link I'd have to click on all 30 and visually look at properties. I don't get it.

      I tried filling into that code Ben... but too tedious and did not work anyway. Did not help

      Clicking on the folder icon while in DW did not work, just brought up Mac finder. No help.

      So what the point of the Broken Link checker if you cannot quick find the broken link in DW?

      B i r n o u
      B i r n o u
      Community Expert
      November 4, 2017

      when you have the results panel filled of all the broken link, you just have to click on one specific result, and DW will open the appropriate document (if not) and give the focus and select the right link cliked.

      if you empty the result panel, the feature is not present anymore...

      that is why I have posted a FR to be able to save the results in a panel and be allowed to get multiple results panel

      does this make sense or did I stilll missed a step ?

        BenPleysier
        BenPleysier
        Community Expert
        November 2, 2017

        Do a find or find and replace

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          larry45Author
          Inspiring
          November 2, 2017

          Too vague an answer, does not help.  Some pages have 30 links...  And the links are not text or code, so I'm lost.

          I'd have to click on each link and look manually at properties tab?

          BenPleysier
          BenPleysier
          Community Expert
          November 2, 2017

          It's been quite a few moons ago since I last worked with CS3.

          You need to go into Code view of the page that contains the link. A link looks like <a href="http://myLink.com">My Link</a>. All you need to do is a find for myLink.com to make your changes.

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