why cant i edit links

[daveh75]

any body know why i cant edit links like lots of people on here seem to be able to...grr

tried doin what it says in pjpro's posting tutorial, but instead of displayin just the text u want, it displays the whole lot (href) the link, and everything else, hope i'm making sense

 

[Anonymous]

Same here. At first I thought they'd allow it after a while ( to stop idiots etc) but 500 posts later I can't do it. Tried PJs method and still nada !! Unless of course I'm still an idiot ? (rhetorical ..so don't bother)

 

[Anonymous]

It sounds like the team have a new problem to contend with, besides the non-functioing Avatar (for some, me included!).

 

[daveh75]

thats good to know, thought it was me bein an idiot, glad to know its not just me with this problem, think your right mr wolf, looks like whf have another problem to fix,

 

[Anonymous]

What computer / browsers are you using? With me:

Mac: Firefox / Opera posting toolbar works fine. Camino / Safari doesn'tÿ

PC: IE 7 / Firefox toolbar fine.

 

[daveh75]

i'm using a pc, using ie7

 

[daveh75]

andrew,clare or andy, any ideas as to what the problem is, thanks

 

[daveh75]

come on, anybody, somebody must know the answer, finding it almost as irritating as the avatar problem atm

 

[Clare Newsome]

I'll add it to the list (BTW, Avatar problem on course for a Tuesday fix.)ÿ

 

[PJPro]

Gents,

I don't understand the issue. I'll bung a link here to the active topics page.

To do this I used <a href="http://whathifi.co.uk/forums/TopicsActive.aspx">here</a> for the link.

Just replace http://whathifi.co.uk/forums/TopicsActive.aspx with your url and here
with your display text.

 

[daveh75]

Clare Newsome:I'll add it to the list (BTW, Avatar problem on course for a Tuesday fix.)

thanks clare

 

[PJPro]

daveh75 - do you still have a problem with the links? Perhaps I can provide further help?

 

[daveh75]

PJPro:Gents, I don't understand the issue. I'll bung a link here to the active topics page. To do this I used <a href="http://whathifi.co.uk/forums/TopicsActive.aspx" mce_href="http://whathifi.co.uk/forums/TopicsActive.aspx">here</a> for the link. Just replace http://whathifi.co.uk/forums/TopicsActive.aspx with your url and here with your display text.

pj thats exactly my point where your link just says "here" when i try to do that it displays the entire text

<a href="http://whathifi.co.uk/forums/TopicsActive.aspx">here</a> like this, instead of just saying "here"

hope that makes more sense

 

[PJPro]

Well, the only thing I can think of is that when you do an update the page is html encoding your text. I've had a look through the site options and I can't see anything which you can set to prevent this.

Have a go bunging a link in your signature.

Does an image work?

 

[daveh75]

ok thanks pj will try that

 

[daveh75]

weird! so how comes it doesnt work in my posts, but does in my signature

 

[PJPro]

Well, I'm guessing that the site is implemented using several controls. The control used to accept your reply to a post is different from the one accepting updates to your signature. So we have managed to identify that there is a problem with the former which is not expressed in the latter.

What I have more difficulty explaining is why it works for me and not for you (and several others). It may not be simply co-incidence that the forum members who cannot create links are also having a problem with their avatars. Moreover, these individuals seem to be newer members. This would seem to indicate there are indeed some user settings associated with a user and perhaps that the default values for these settings have changed.

Unfortunately without access to the code, there's not much more that I can say or do. What I would say is that the instructions in my format posting thread are correct and represent the simplest of html. However, the html encoding being performed by the site are preventing the required result from being displayed.

 

[daveh75]

cheers pj, so do you think that when they fix the avatar problem it might fix this too, i wasn't doubting your posting tutorial instructions btw, tbh thought it must be something technical or something i was doing wrong, guess i'll just have too live with it for the time being

 

[PJPro]

I would think that the issues are related. Whether there is a single fix for both issues, I can't say.

 

[daveh75]

guys see here seems lewis201 had the answer,