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Posted by ben houle
ben houle
382 Points

Workspace only brings up idex.html page when clicking the view icon not my new .html which is labeled differently

In the early stages of this course learning how to set up a new website. When clicking the view "eye" icon in work space it brings up the original idex.html page instead of the new one I have created. This problem seems to lie in the workspace not in the actual coding of what Im doing very confused please help.

Alex Davis
Alex Davis
35,050 Points

index.html is special to browsers in the way that the browser will view that as the homepage hence why it keeps opening the index.html.

To open a new page you'll need to create a link to click to so you can open the new page.

1 Answer

rydavim
rydavim
18,814 Points
rydavim
rydavim
18,814 Points

Like Alex Davis mentioned, your browser will automatically display the index.html page by default. In order to view a different page in the main folder, you'll need to either link to it or manually type it into the browser.

For example, if your new page is called foobar.html you can preview your workspace as normal, and then add /foobar.html to the end of the url - (ports).treehouse-app.com/foobar.html.

If it's still giving you trouble, let me know and we can take at look at your workspace. Good luck, and happy coding!