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[url] code not working

Posted: Mon Mar 29, 2010 7:54 am
by HuManBing
Hello mods:

I tried to link a bit of text to this page: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Steve_Jack ... _designer)

I failed. The bit of text would be "British" and the code I put in was:

British

As you can see, it does not create a link to the page. Can any of you figure this out? I don't think I've made any errors in the code. Maybe the internal URL parentheses are throwing off the code?

Re: [url] code not working

Posted: Mon Mar 29, 2010 11:25 am
by steveflam
HuManBing wrote:Hello mods:

I tried to link a bit of text to this page: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Steve_Jack ... _designer)

I failed. The bit of text would be "British" and the code I put in was:

British

As you can see, it does not create a link to the page. Can any of you figure this out? I don't think I've made any errors in the code. Maybe the internal URL parentheses are throwing off the code?

HMB you put [url instead of [url]. Maybe that is why it did not work?

Posted: Mon Mar 29, 2010 5:15 pm
by Isabella
I believe I've had issues with internal url parentheses in the past as well.

Re: [url] code not working

Posted: Mon Mar 29, 2010 8:19 pm
by HuManBing
tarlyn wrote:
HMB you put [url instead of [url]. Maybe that is why it did not work?
If the tag is [url] then it never links anywhere. You must put equals plus HTTP address within the brackets for the link to work properly.

I think Isabella is right on this one. The parenthesis is causing the board to become confused. (Note that the url before the open parenthesis seems to scan okay, but it then puts you in a nonfunctional end address...)