Question

What makes links turn green?

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A link on WikiTree.com is green if it is coded properly (URL formatted properly; no typos or extraneous spaces or characters; etc.). For an internal link (to a WikiTree.com page), the green link is an indication that the linked-to page exists.

An external link may be green even if the linked-to page no longer exists as long as it is coded properly (the URL is properly formatted, etc.).

I think my summary is reasonably valid, at least!

But feel free to correct any errors or omissions, my fellow WikiTreers!!

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None of my links are green but this one: https://www.wikitree.com/wiki/Venner-195

(down near the bottom of the list of sources)

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All the links that I see are green.

Could you provide some specific text for the bad links?

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The browser turns them black when you've visited the page.  They go back to green when the browser forgets.

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Well, so it did.  I think I won't worry about it then.

Thanks

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I always use private browser mode, so the links on WikiTree.com pages always stay green on my screen.

So for viewers who don't use private mode, a green link on a WikiTree.com page generally means that it is a good link that you haven't clicked yet.

That is my understanding, presuming a bad link hasn't purposely been coded to be green!

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I've never seen my links go green before, so I thought it was a bad piece of code in there someplace that I just couldn't spot. I spend a lot of time trying to spot coding errors.

So this all is good to know.