Problem:

The last hyperlink in a structured-text block isn't linking when it's the last thing on a page.

Quick Cure:

Add a space or a period after the hyperlink to let the rendering engine know when the link ends. When adding the space, it is sometimes necessary to follow it with the text   *- the non-breaking space entity reference )*.

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Further Info

Depending on the Zope application ( eg, Wiki or Portfolio ), the links might look like:

• "This is my link name": http://mylink.com/this/is/my/link.htm
• This is my link name

This happens because the structured-text engine finds the end of a link when it is followed by punctuation or whitespace. Unfortunately for the hyperlink engine, humans usually don't add any other characters after the last one on a page, which in this case is the last character of the link. To take care of this, additional characters need to be added after the link.

Adding  

Depending on where the hyperlink is written ( eg, Portfolio page body or sidebar ) the Zope software seems to remove any whitespace characters from the end of text. Adding the special text   after the space will prohibit the software from removing it so the link will render properly. This text, known as an entity reference, doesn't show up in the web browser because it is transformed into a single space character.

References

Here is a short list of links to find out more regarding entity references such as  .

• Click here for more information regarding entity references
• Click here to see a chart with the most popular entity references

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keywords: hyperlink, web link, troubleshoot