http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?postid=1585241#post1585241
Your problem is that you’re using the tags. To auto-link, there’s no need to use these tags, just type out the url itself thus:
http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/newreply.php?action=newreply&threadid=85754
No tags needed. Just like you did in the OP.
If you want to look snazzy, you can use the url tags like this:
<url=“http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/newreply.php?action=newreply&threadid=85754”>A page</url>
replacing the <> brackets with brackets so that it looks like this:
Make sure you remember to include the quotation marks etc.
Fran
That’s the thing…I didn’t use them. I used the auto parse.
I had some link weirdness happen to me yesterday: I wanted to link to doggieslink.com, so I typed in {URL=“http://www.doggieslink.com”}Doggie’s Link{/URL}, but when I previewed, instead of the link taking me to the site, it took me to a “Not Found” error message at the SDMB. I ran the mouse over the link again, and saw that it had somehow been changed to http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/www.doggieslink.com . I thought that was weird, so I double checked my code, and previewed a second time. My link was still being tacked onto the SDMB address. In the end I gave up, and couldn’t post the link at all.
It was some major weirdness. I still have no idea about why it happened. Some sort of VBulletin brainfart perhaps?
The problem is that long links break up.
If you use the vBcode to hide the link with text (such as “click here”) you can get a longer link.
But even so, there are some that break up, such as links to search pages, where parameters stretch out the line.
Are you sure you included the “http” portion of the link? vB most certainly will append “http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb” in front of anything if you forget the http.
Check out this test:
Thanks, zut. I didn’t realise vB would do that. I must have forgotten the ol’ http bizzo.
vB actually doesn’t do that, your web browser does. vB just takes whatever you typed and puts it directly into a URL. A web browser then determines whether it was meant to be a relative link or an absolute one based on whether it has an “http://” (or other protocol) in front.