Why is "https:///" flagged as a broken link in QA?
Summary
If Quality Assurance (QA) flags"https:///" or"http:///" as a broken link, it means the page contains an empty link. This occurs when a link's href attribute does not contain a valid URL.
Answer
When the Quality Assurance (QA) module flags"https:///" or"http:///" as a broken link in QA, it means that your page contains an empty link.
Additional Information
Example empty link code
The code for the problem link will look something like these examples:
- (a)<href="http://">
- (b)<href="https://">
- (c) <href="">
How to locate the link in HTML
Locating the broken link in the HTML code can be difficult.
To locate the empty link, we recommend you search for"http://","https://" or"href=""" in the HTML view of the Page report.
Once you find the empty href tags, you can either remove the tag or edit it so that it contains a valid URL.

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