Live links in posts

[gen2]

Is anyone else having problems placing active links in their posts? To be sure I was using the new anchor tags correctly, I copied and pasted the structure directly from the FAQ page. I replaced the address with the full URL and replaced the other text with my own. But sad to say :-( it didn't work. The URL was taken as a relative address instead of an absolute address and http://www.theanswerbank.co.uk/Science/ was added to the front of the URL causing the link to fail - just as it did for many people under the old system.

Well folks, anyone know what I am doing wrong?
PS, I have e-mailed AB about this.

[jno]

got to have the whole URL kazza including the http http://www.bbc.co.uk

[jno]

here they are ZebUK

[AB Editor]

We are sorry you've been experiencing problems. You've exposed a subtle error in the way the FAQ was put together.

The quotes that delimit the URL in the anchor tag are not the ASCII character they should be ("). Even though it appears to be correct, the anchor tag in the FAQ won't be parsed as proper HTML.

I've amended the FAQ so that if you follow the directions the links will be displayed correctly.

Apologies for the error.

[gen2]

Thank you very much (Techy Team / Monks). I can sleep peacefully now. Enjoy your vespers.

[kempie]

Still bold?

[jno]

all these answers appear bold on my computer at home but light on my computer at work. I can't even begin to understand how this happens, kempie.

[kempie]

All of the answers appear bold when I view them in IE6 and plain text (with user added formatting) in Firefox.

My "Still bold?" post above actually contains over 50 < / b > tags in an attempt to switch off the bold type.

Obviously (to those viewing in IE6?) it failed miserably.

[gen2]

Sorry about the bold. It was probably my error. In my question I intended the word 'full' to be in bold but instead of the close tag, I assume that I missed out the / character and therefore included a second bold tag in error.

I also tried to correct it with close tags in the 7th post in this thread and like kempie found they didn't work. I promise I'll try harder to get it right next time.

[jno]

not necessarily gen2 - as I said, it seems to vary between different computer screens. I'm currently at home, and seeing bold. Anyway, what you put in your Q shouldn't affect what other people put in their answers. Sounds like a bug in the system to me. Why not post another Q asking AB Ed to look into it?

[gen2]

Thanks jno, I have taken your advice and done just that. I have even forced the same error in that post to give the monks something to work on. I'm sure they can manage an 8 hour working day between Matins and Vespers.

[carrot_cam]

<a target='_blank' href="bbc.co.uk/food">bbc food</a> just seeing if it works

[carrot_cam]

[a target='_blank' href="bbc.co.uk/food"]bbc food[/a]