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Asked: 2026-05-27T06:18:25+00:00

I’m a little baffled by why this is happening… I have the following code

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I’m a little baffled by why this is happening…

I have the following code saved as a standalone html file on my PC’s desktop:

<html>
    <head>
        <script type="text/javascript" src="http://code.jquery.com/jquery-1.7.1.min.js"></script>
        <script type="text/javascript">
            function load() {
                $.getJSON( "http://somedomain.json?&jsonp=?", function(json) {
                  $.each(json.data.children, function(i,item){
                        var iData = item.data;
                        var commentLink = "www.somedomain.com" + iData.permalink;

                        $("<a href='"+commentLink+"'>Comments</a>").appendTo("#content");   
                        $("<br/>").appendTo("#content");

                });
                });
            }
        </script>
    </head>
    <body onload="load()">
        <div id="content" />    
    </body>
</html>

It all works fine, except that the links end up looking like this:

file:///C:/Users/myname/Desktop/www.somedomain.com/comments/somesubdomain/

Is this expected behavior for what I am doing, or did I do something wrong?

I am opening the standalone html in firefox FWIW.

Thanks.

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  1. Editorial Team

    I think this is happening because you are not referencing the http:// in your commentLink variable.

    The browser then recognizes it as a local file, local to your desktop.

    If you change

    var commentLink = "www.somedomain.com" + iData.permalink;

    to

    var commentLink = "http://www.somedomain.com" + iData.permalink;

    I think it should work.

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