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Automatic URL's into Links?
I'm sure I must be missing this somewhere, but in our forum people place a lot of URL's and links in their messages and I'd like it to be automatic that the URL's are turned into automatic links. It seems to work for me when I place an email address or URL in the body of a message but not for all users.

Is there a setting in the User Profile that someone may have changed or somewhere in the forum setup?

Thanks

Steve

Visit The Guitar Diner
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Re: [Boomer] Automatic URL's into Links? In reply to
I'm having the same problem. I thought it was due to if you made you post in the basic editor vs. advanced editor, but my theory went down the tubes...

Any one else out there?

Dave
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Re: [Boomer] Automatic URL's into Links? In reply to
Hi Steve,

Gossamer Forum doesn't automatically look for URL's and e-mail addresses in posts. However, if using the advanced editor, as soon as you put something that it thinks is a URL or an e-mail address, it will automatically link it for you - however it is still possible to remove the link by hitting backspace at the end of the link, or by selecting the link, hitting the link button (or Ctrl-K), and clearing the URL.

The problem is that if it automatically tried to check for links, it would make it impossible to _not_ link a URL. Sometimes, when writing a post, I'll make a reference such as: http://your.website/path/to/gforum/gforum.cgi - but I don't want it to be linked, as in this post.

However, I can see that on some forums it would be useful, and so I'll add this to the version 2 list as an option.

Jason Rhinelander
Gossamer Threads
jason@gossamer-threads.com
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Re: [Jagerman] Automatic URL's into Links? In reply to
I'll have to check and see if the people typing URL's/emails that are not being turned into links automatically are using the advanced or the basic editor. I never thought ther would be a difference in how each one handles input!

Thanks

Steve

Visit The Guitar Diner
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Re: [Boomer] Automatic URL's into Links? In reply to
It's not Gossamer Forum converting things - the advanced editor automatically produces a link when it sees one. The HTML it produces (which is what Gossamer Forum gets) has a link in it, which is indiscernible from a link you created yourself.

Jason Rhinelander
Gossamer Threads
jason@gossamer-threads.com