Partial links not going outbound I have links on a partial within my templates, but it seems to be trying to load a template when it should just be loading the outbound href of the &lt;a&gt; tag. I don't have a clue why this would be happening?

  {% if user.userWebsite %}
  &lt;li class="list-inline-item m-1"&gt;
    &lt;a class="btn btn-light" href="{{ user.userWebsite }}" target="_blank"&gt;&lt;i class='bx bx-rss bx-tiny'&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/a&gt;
  &lt;/li&gt;
  {% endif %}


Will link out to mysite.com/profile/pinterest.com/username when really it should be going to pinterest.com/username

Any ideas to why?
The browser reads user.userWebsite as a relative URL, not an absolute one, I guess because your user.userWebsite field does not store the protocol, i.e.: http or https. 

If you don't specify a protocol in a URL a browser must assume that it is a link to a resource on your own site. The solution is to either store the protocol within userWebsite (probably the best option), or prepend it in your template, e.g.:

href="https://{{ user.userWebsite }}"