BUG: Forum editor software innapropriately strips internal forum links.

I've noticed more than once in these forums that If I copy an address with the proper format for a hyperlink, and then paste it into the editor that internal forum links are innapropriately stripped and the links do not work.

Example: Linking to the 12 Days of Logos Christmas Special <http://community.logos.com/forums/t/6669.aspx> thread results in code that actually looks like this:

<a href="http://community.logos.com/forums/t/6669.aspx">12 Days of Logos Christmas Special</a>

But notice if I paste it into the editor thus: 12 Days of Logos Christmas Special

That the link is inappropriately stripped to something like <a href="/forums/t/6669.aspx">12 Days of Logos Christmas Special</a>

Or even stripped to:

<a href="/t/6669.aspx">12 Days of Logos Christmas Special</a>

The result of all is this that the links often don't work, and I have to edit my posts to fix them.

I've seen this craziness for a long time - it's time to point it out.

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J.R. Miller

internal forum links are innapropriately stripped

I am not a fan of inappropriate stripping, but appropriate stripping is another thing entirely.

Rosie Perera

I've noticed more than once in these forums that If I copy an address with the proper format for a hyperlink, and then paste it into the editor that internal forum links are innapropriately stripped and the links do not work.

I can confirm that this happens for me, too. I'd never noticed it before, and I have linked to internal pages on the forum. I guess I haven't been testing my links.

TCBlack

*bump*

Can we puhlease do something about the way this forum software keeps stripping internal links? I wouldn't care if they worked, but they dont' work at all, and I end up with some variance of a dead link or a <a>link</a> with no href="" at all.

*frustrated

Wes Saad

https://community.logos.com/discussion/comment/165244#Comment_165244

Don't know if this would help, but I usually just make use of the forum tool if I want to convert text to a link instead of just posting the hyperlink. So, for example, I use that method to make this link to Logos. Annoying, but it works.

This will open the following popup:

TCBlack

https://community.logos.com/discussion/comment/165266#Comment_165266

Indeed Chris, I have used the same function, Try doing that with links to other forum posts though - at random intervals the URL get's stripped as posted initially.

Let's just see what happens when I post a link to the first post, or when I paste it: BUG: Forum editor software innapropriately strips internal forum links.