HTML link to internet does not work

Question

Trying a very basic link through HTML to internet:

<p><a href="http://www.google.com">Google</a></p>

No matter what website I try to link to my browser says ERR_FILE_NOT_FOUND and the detail

No webpage was found for the web address: file:///Users/stevemcc101/Dropbox/html/â€œhttps://www.google.comâ€

So my browser is always picking up the path to the dropbox folder (or any other folder I save the document in) and not linking direct to the URL.

Sorry I know a basic query but just starting to learn HTML and can't get around this issue. Please help!

It sounds like you're using smart quotes (exacerbated by an encoding problem). Don't do that. — SLaks, May 26 '15 at 03:53
Please refer to http://stackoverflow.com/questions/2477452/%C3%A2%E2%82%AC%E2%84%A2-showing-on-page-instead-of — Howard Wang, May 26 '15 at 04:01
why is a request for http://www.google.com looking for file:///Users/stevemcc101/Dropbox/html/â€œhttps://www.google.comâ€ ? Can you post the full HTML source? — Jeromy French, Jul 02 '15 at 22:08

score 1 · Answer 1 · answered May 26 '15 at 03:54

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Try without the quotes like so:

<p><a href=http://www.google.com>Google</a></p>

if that works then the issue is with your quotes

answered May 26 '15 at 03:54

aharen

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