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Posted by Dave   Australia  (93 posts)  Bio
Date Fri 10 Jan 2003 12:02 PM (UTC)

Amended on Fri 10 Jan 2003 12:03 PM (UTC) by Dave

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Is there ANY way to do hyperlinking with forum codes or otherwise? Even if you restricted them to in-site URLs this would be nice (ie. "this topic has already been covered, click on here to go to the relevant post in this forum" type thing), anyway.. testing:

[a href="http://www.gammon.com.au/forum/bbshowpost.php?bbsubject_id=1506";]this[/a].

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Didn't think so, but it was worth a shot :P
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Posted by Nick Gammon   Australia  (23,133 posts)  Bio   Forum Administrator
Date Reply #1 on Sat 11 Jan 2003 09:50 PM (UTC)
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The problem with hyperlinks, apart from possibly being abused, is that the forum codes currently work with a simple text replacement, eg. [b] becomes <b> without any context check.

Now if someone opened a hyperlink but forgot to close it, or mistyped the close, then the entire rest of that subject might turn into a huge hyperlink.

Maybe I could add a box for "see also this post" which you suggested, and you would just type the subject number into that box.

- Nick Gammon

www.gammon.com.au, www.mushclient.com
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