Question

Django insists on adding the current path before a link i put into an a> tag on my page : example:

 <h6><a href="{{ officialUrl }}">Read More</a></h6>

now assuming officialUrl was “www.google.com” – Django will instead link to “http://www.mysite.com/this/page/www.google.com”

Any idea how to fix this?

Answer 1

Django is not doing that, browsers do because you are not specifying a protocol. A proper link inside an <a> tag will usually begin with http:// or some other XXX:// protocol. Simply putting www.google.com is not a proper link.