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NSR: Attaching link not working
Posted: Wed Apr 25, 2012 9:11 pm
by un_designer
i was trying to post a link in a thread and am seeing this:
http://www.piaggiousa.com/scooters.html ... ns/fly-150
according to the instructions that should've made the link a link, but it's not. what am i doing wrong? thx.
Posted: Wed Apr 25, 2012 10:24 pm
by jmazza
Posted: Thu Apr 26, 2012 4:15 am
by ericalm
Looks like the ! is acting as an escape character and goofing it up.
The workaround is to use HTML:
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<a href="http://www.piaggiousa.com/scooters.html#!s=specifications/fly-150">testing</a>
Gives us:
<a href="
http://www.piaggiousa.com/scooters.html ... testing</a>
Posted: Thu Apr 26, 2012 5:27 am
by Syd
I was going to guess the #, but then I didn't see the !
Posted: Thu Apr 26, 2012 5:34 pm
by un_designer
thx for the info. i've fixed the link now. i'm surprised that i'm the first to encounter this, since many (especially product sites) sites now contain super-crazy URL strings with all sorts of characters.
Posted: Fri Apr 27, 2012 12:38 am
by ericalm
I confess that I'll often just fix bad URLs in posts if I find them.
Another way to do it is use a URL shortener such as is.gd. They always give back "clean" links.