[Pro] How Do I Add Hyperlink To HTML Box?

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Please forgive me, if this is really simple…
I want to add little animated banner to a website. I’m using MotionComposer to create the animation, which produces some HTML code. Then in FreewayPro, I draw a little HTML box of the same dimensions, drop in the Mark Up code, & the animation appears when I preview the page in a browser. But now I want to make that whole box a hyperlink, so that when it’s clicked it takes you to a different page on the site. MotionComposer is supposed to be able to add the action to the banner, but their documentation is weak, & when I do everything they suggest in their video, it still doesn’t work.

Since I’m making the HTML box in FreewayPro, for this banner to nest in, I thought, FreewayPro should be able to assign the action to the whole box. Hopefully this assumption is correct.

When I have the box selected in FreewayPro, the hyperlink option is grayed out in the menu bar. All the actions have other options, like open a pdf, or something other than what I want.

Please tell me how to do this…

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You cant add a hyperlink to an HTML container.

A simple solution is to draw an empty graphic container over the top of the HTML one and link from that. Make sure the graphic box is a layer.

David

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Thanks David, I’ll try that. Not sure how to make an empty graphic box into a layer, but I’ll explore in Freeway.
thanks again.

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wow, there’s no edit feature on these posts?
ok, well I found the layer button easily, & your idea works perfectly in Preview In Browser.
However, when I upload the site, the banner disappears but the invisible link is still there. I figured I had to upload the little folder the banner created, so I used ftp. But not sure which folder to put it in on the server… I guessed public_html but that makes no difference. The banner is supposed to work with html5 or flash. It works perfectly in preview mode, but that’s it…

any ideas?
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Post a link to your online page and we can tell you where to put it - probably in the same folder alongside the HTML page that it is supposed to appear on.

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wow, there’s no edit feature on these posts?

Nope - this system is based on an email platform with a web view. You can’t edit an email once you have sent it - can you?

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Thanks Dave,

Right underneath where it says Creative Gathering Space, is where the banner goes (& shows in preview), you’ll see the link is there.

http://2studiob.ca/

Thank you so much for all your help.

Tanya

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If you look at your markup code you should see this

<iframe src="file:///Users/riseabove/Documents/2ndSt.Studio/UpcomingEventsBanner/mzFrame.html"	width="400" height="64" frameborder="0" name="MotionComposer" scrolling="no"><p>Your browser does not support iframes.</p></iframe></p>

You are trying to link to a file on your Mac - not on the server.

Change it to

<iframe src="http://www.2studiob.ca/mzFrame.html" ...............

This assumes that you have uploaded the mzFrame.html page to your server along with the folder you talked about. If mzFrame.html is in a folder with the other files then it would read

<iframe src="http://www.2studiob.ca/myfolderIuploaded/mzFrame.html" ...............

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YAAAY! it works !

Oh, David I’m so happy. Right now I’m grinning from ear to ear.

Thank you so much.
Why would MotionComposer give me the code for the computer I’m working on, when I want to publish it to the web? Crazy.

Anyway, now, thanks to you, I know the secret, & can tackle the animated slide show I have planned for above that banner.

You, Sir… are a valuable asset to the Freeway community.

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Why would MotionComposer give me the code for the computer I’m working on

Never used it so can’t say - it may be in the documentation, about getting your paths correct?

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