# Tag bugs adding URL to Quote? **URL:** \ **Category:** About This Message Board\ **Created:** [January 25, 2005, 10:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tag-bugs-adding-url-to-quote/286649 "2005-01-25T22:10:51Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 6\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Morbo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/morbo/32/389_2.png) [@Morbo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Morbo)\ **Post date:** [January 25, 2005, 10:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tag-bugs-adding-url-to-quote/286649/1 "2005-01-25T22:10:51Z")
[ > [@](#): > > ]([www.yahoo.com](http://www.yahoo.com))Here is my quote, why is it underlined Why is this hlinked to the above URL when I’ve closed the URL tag? ---
**Author:** ![John\_Kentzel-Griffin](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/ccd318/32.png) [@John\_Kentzel-Griffin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/John_Kentzel-Griffin)\ **Post date:** [January 25, 2005, 10:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tag-bugs-adding-url-to-quote/286649/2 "2005-01-25T22:16:27Z")
The text under the quote box isn’t a link in Netscape on a Mac, but is in IE on a Mac. ---
**Author:** ![Morbo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/morbo/32/389_2.png) [@Morbo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Morbo)\ **Post date:** [January 25, 2005, 10:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tag-bugs-adding-url-to-quote/286649/3 "2005-01-25T22:55:03Z")
And on IE 6.02 for Win, which is what I’m using. I’m just not sure why it would be, or why the text would be underlined. Here’s the code, using { instead of [ ```auto {url="www.yahoo.com"}{quote}Here is my quote, why is it underlined{/quote} Why is this hlinked to the above URL when I've closed the URL tag? ``` ---
**Author:** ![Morbo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/morbo/32/389_2.png) [@Morbo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Morbo)\ **Post date:** [January 25, 2005, 10:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tag-bugs-adding-url-to-quote/286649/4 "2005-01-25T22:56:25Z")
Blarg. Make that ```auto {url="www.yahoo.com"}{quote}{/url}Here is my quote, why is it underlined{/quote} Why is this hlinked to the above URL when I've closed the URL tag? ``` ---
**Author:** ![tomndebb](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/b9e5f3/32.png) [@tomndebb](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/tomndebb)\ **Post date:** [January 26, 2005, 5:05am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tag-bugs-adding-url-to-quote/286649/5 "2005-01-26T05:05:18Z")
I cannot give an exact answer, but it appears that you have succeeded in confusing the software. You have a url tag set in which the beginning of a quote tag set is embedded within the url and the closure to the quote tag set is outside the url tag set. You are also using quotation marks in the url, which is proper to UBB, but is not generally recognized (and is an error) in vB. I figure you’re lucky that it did not simply shut down your puter and send a nasty personal message off to Bill Gates and Steve Jobs. ---
**Author:** ![Chronos](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/chronos/32/134_2.png) [@Chronos](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chronos)\ **Post date:** [January 26, 2005, 8:21am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tag-bugs-adding-url-to-quote/286649/6 "2005-01-26T08:21:40Z")
> [@](#): > > You are also using quotation marks in the url, which is proper to UBB, but is not generally recognized (and is an error) in vB. I’ve always used quote marks with URLs in vBulletin, and there was a stretch of time when that was the preferred method and omitting the quotes could cause bugs. As examples, [Google](http://www.google.com), [Yahoo](http://www.yahoo.com), and [Mozilla](http://www.mozilla.com) (all entered using quote marks around the URLs). But the overlapping tags could reasonably cause browser confusion.