If you put the url link from the database into the url parameter of the link component, it attempts to got to that site, for instance http://www.bing.com works, however http://uk.yahoo.com doesn't.
I have been told from one of your guys that there is a bug in the link component, and that the url should be set to #.
Then you can navigate using javascript. if the url is set to # then the only place to actually store the value would be the text field. What are the properties/method names available to the link component?
I assume I could access them by something like: var url=Appery('news_link').href ( or something along those lines.