# Link to External Pages with Anchor Elements issue

**URL:** <https://forum.freecodecamp.org/t/link-to-external-pages-with-anchor-elements-issue/146039>\
**Category:** General\
**Created:** [September 5, 2017, 8:14am UTC](https://forum.freecodecamp.org/t/link-to-external-pages-with-anchor-elements-issue/146039 "2017-09-05T08:14:38Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 4\
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**Author:** ![smsm](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/839c29/32.png) [@smsm](https://forum.freecodecamp.org/u/smsm)\
**Post date:** [September 5, 2017, 8:14am UTC](https://forum.freecodecamp.org/t/link-to-external-pages-with-anchor-elements-issue/146039/1 "2017-09-05T08:14:38Z")

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I don’t know y the code is not working, i have tried many thing but it is just not reflecting.

i tried [cat photos](http://www.freecatphotoapp.com) in a single line, i tried it combined with

element and i tried it with the ![]() element but still not accepted.

**Your code so far**

```auto
<link href="https://fonts.googleapis.com/css?family=Lobster" rel="stylesheet" type="text/css">
<style>
  .red-text {
    color: red;
  }

  h2 {
    font-family: Lobster, Monospace;
  }

  p {
    font-size: 16px;
    font-family: Monospace;
  }

  .thick-green-border {
    border-color: green;
    border-width: 10px;
    border-style: solid;
    border-radius: 50%;
  }

  .smaller-image {
    width: 100px;
  }
</style>

<h2 class="red-text">CatPhotoApp</h2>
  

<img class="smaller-image thick-green-border" src="https://bit.ly/fcc-relaxing-cat" alt="A cute orange cat lying on its back. ">

<a href="http://www.freecatphotoapp.com">cat photos</a>

<p class="red-text">Kitty ipsum dolor sit amet, shed everywhere shed everywhere stretching attack your ankles chase the red dot, hairball run catnip eat the grass sniff.</p>

<p class="red-text">Purr jump eat the grass rip the couch scratched sunbathe, shed everywhere rip the couch sleep in the sink fluffy fur catnip scratched.</p>

```

**Your browser information:**

Your Browser User Agent is: `Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1; WOW64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/55.0.2883.87 Safari/537.36`.

**Link to the challenge:**  
[https://www.freecodecamp.org/challenges/link-to-external-pages-with-anchor-elements](https://www.freecodecamp.org/challenges/link-to-external-pages-with-anchor-elements)

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**Author:** ![alta9](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/freecodecamp/user_avatar/forum.freecodecamp.org/alta9/32/64860_2.png) [@alta9](https://forum.freecodecamp.org/u/alta9)\
**Post date:** [September 5, 2017, 8:19am UTC](https://forum.freecodecamp.org/t/link-to-external-pages-with-anchor-elements-issue/146039/2 "2017-09-05T08:19:19Z")

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this is the task requirement :

> You need an a element that links to [http://freecatphotoapp.com](http://freecatphotoapp.com)

this is what you write in your code :

```auto
<a href="http://www.freecatphotoapp.com">cat photos</a>

```

check the url

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**Author:** ![smsm](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/839c29/32.png) [@smsm](https://forum.freecodecamp.org/u/smsm)\
**Post date:** [September 7, 2017, 12:48pm UTC](https://forum.freecodecamp.org/t/link-to-external-pages-with-anchor-elements-issue/146039/3 "2017-09-07T12:48:41Z")

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Thank you for the reply, i ddnt change anything, i have just applied it on IE and it worked.

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**Author:** ![ILM](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/freecodecamp/user_avatar/forum.freecodecamp.org/ilm/32/363239_2.png) [@ILM](https://forum.freecodecamp.org/u/ILM)\
**Post date:** [January 17, 2021, 8:40pm UTC](https://forum.freecodecamp.org/t/link-to-external-pages-with-anchor-elements-issue/146039/4 "2021-01-17T20:40:17Z")

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