Category: Zone BBS Suggestions and Feedback
Hello Developers,
Please resolve the issue of HTML links not rendering correctly in board posts.
There's really a scarcity of information in your post.
What inconsistencies do you mean?
Bob
Agreed. I have never seen links fail, not if they were coded. Just putting in a URl is not sufficient. These boards are not Rich Text or other intelligent format fields. You have to supply your own html code, and it needs to be code literal, not the tag soup a lot of hackneys produce. Close your tags, use lower case for tag and attribute names, close your quotes for your attribute values, and so on.
With a username like Shell Script, I take it you are young and hot to trot to get into programming. A basic concept is to be able to provide a description and steps for the issue you are encountering.
Sorry. The issue I am having is that my HTML links I code show up one time out of every two hundred. And I am coding them correctly, I know that for certain. The inconsistency is that some users have gotten there links to show up, while others get blank space. Sorry for the vague detail, I wrote this very late in the night.
The users that put links in create them, they just don't type them.
I personally don't put links only addresses.
I feel it is better security to not click links on webpages, but use the address to get there.
I don't trust links,.
I will use one depending on who post it, but not all of them.
I've never had a problem posting links on board posts...do you have a board post with an example of where the link appears blank?
A couple frequent html mistakes that a lot of browsers and other web software will forgive:
- failing to place the attribute value inside double quotes, not single quotes. Shell Script, you as a programmer probably write in enough languages where single and double quotes are interchangeable so long as they are consistent, many languages do now. It's an easy mistake not to say you made it, but still. So check all your attributes not just the href.
The other thing is to create a tag with no nested text - open angle bracket a, the attributes href and title and so on, then forward slash and close angle bracket. A legal tag but would produce empty space on these boards. If you tried to nest an image instead of tet, I'm not sure what would happen.
Since the <pre> and other code tags don't work on here, you may just want to describe the structure you're using.
I'm just saying all this because so many environments are so forgiving about html - hence it's nickname tag soup, in some circles.
Here, let's see if this link to Google search will show up. For this one, I did a less than, the a href part, and the link in double quotes (I don't use single quotes typically), then ! URL, then close the quote, then close the tag with less than /a greater.
Nevermind. That was a lucky tag for the post before the last one.