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Offline PaulMy

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Link to Dropbox
« on: July 13, 2017, 11:42:49 PM »
I am on our local Canada Day Committee and have set up a website www.delkobrydgecanadaday.ca which has a pictures section (click on camera)
I have been given a Dropbox link that has pictures of our July 1st event and have the following code:
<a href="https://www.dropbox.com/sh/ulnqpzjgxfsh6bz/AADi0NZoQC7Vwk6sp_tVxSlva?dl=0">Dropbox</a>

in the Pictures page but the Dropbox site does not come up.  The url link works on its own.  I know nothing about Dropbox and nearly as much on html code so can anyone suggest what I need to do to have a link work from a link on the page?

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Re: Link to Dropbox
« Reply #1 on: July 14, 2017, 03:03:14 AM »
I see what you mean, link on its own say from here works fine, but when used in html it says the username not recognised

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<a href="https://www.dropbox.com/sh/ulnqpzjgxfsh6bz/AADi0NZoQC7Vwk6sp_tVxSlva?dl=0">Dropbox</a>

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Oops! We couldn’t find a Dropbox account matching that email

Someone with more expertise than I is needed for sure...

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Re: Link to Dropbox
« Reply #2 on: July 15, 2017, 12:29:19 AM »
Hmmm, works for me in an html file. See code below.

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<!DOCTYPE html>
<html lang="en">
  <head>
    <meta charset="utf-8">
    <meta name="generator" content="CoffeeCup HTML Editor (www.coffeecup.com)">
    <meta name="dcterms.created" content="Sat, 15 Jul 2017 04:23:46 GMT">
    <meta name="description" content="">
    <meta name="keywords" content="">
    <title></title>
   
    <!--[if IE]>
    <script src="http://html5shim.googlecode.com/svn/trunk/html5.js"></script>
    <![endif]-->
  </head>
  <body>
<a href="https://www.dropbox.com/sh/ulnqpzjgxfsh6bz/AADi0NZoQC7Vwk6sp_tVxSlva?dl=0">Dropbox</a>
  </body>
</html>
Just save it as a html file (I used dropbox-test.html) and then point to it with your browser. Worked for me in Chrome. I did not try any other browsers.
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Re: Link to Dropbox
« Reply #3 on: July 15, 2017, 12:33:01 AM »
i used the default browser thats built into frontpage, i think that would have been a type of IE
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Re: Link to Dropbox
« Reply #4 on: July 15, 2017, 01:10:57 AM »
Strange, I tried it with IE - couldn't open the webpage. Firefox and Chrome both work just fine. Can't explain it. Hopefully someone else will come up with a good reason for this behavior.
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Re: Link to Dropbox
« Reply #5 on: July 15, 2017, 05:08:53 PM »
Thanks for checking.  I have learned that opening it in a new tab it does load.
Is there some code that I could add to have it open in a new Tab?


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Re: Link to Dropbox
« Reply #6 on: July 15, 2017, 05:38:00 PM »
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Re: Link to Dropbox
« Reply #7 on: July 18, 2017, 01:58:18 PM »
PaulMy, did you get your DropBox issue resolved?

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Re: Link to Dropbox
« Reply #8 on: July 18, 2017, 03:44:29 PM »
Hi dupreezd,
Well this is embarrassing;
Yes I tried that target="_blank" and it worked/works www.delkobrydgecanadaday.ca/2017-pictures.html on all the browsers and computers/phone/tablets I've tried - but does take a while to load.

...and I was sure I had replied on this thread to say that and thanked you for the suggestion... and even put out another question: can you find me in any of the pictures? (and no, not #598) but nothing shows up in the posts so must have been a seniors' moment,
or missed pressing <send> :oops:

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Re: Link to Dropbox
« Reply #9 on: July 18, 2017, 03:59:50 PM »
The DropBox pictures loads real fast. Pictures 1 and 2 is a bit slower but not bad. Some nice pictures. We have an office in Calgary and I get to go there once in awhile.

Glad it worked, just wanted to make sure you got it working.
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Re: Link to Dropbox
« Reply #10 on: July 18, 2017, 04:09:16 PM »
Just noticed this on your template. Not sure if it is normal or not, as I don't use it.
Looks like the date and time is off.
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Re: Link to Dropbox
« Reply #11 on: July 18, 2017, 04:34:44 PM »
Pictures 1 and 2 are single images uploaded to my webserver and likely much larger size as they are not reduced from originals.
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Looks like the date and time is off.
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I've been looking and maybe another senior's moment, but date and time seems correct http://www.komokaweather.com/weather/komoka-now.php for my local time in 24 hr time.

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