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Originally Posted by Ernest Burden
now, I click 'preview' and I see a shortened URL for either method.
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Ok this is not really related to this problem. That truncation of the URL in the post is simply a method to prevent a REALLY long URL from showing up and affecting page formating. Becuase a URL has no spaces it's treated as one word. A really long word could not wrap the page.
If you are familiar with HTML or even the [IMG] tag code you will see how what is shown on the page and what is actually linked to, can be two seperate things.
For example: (I've substituted
[ and
] for
( and
) so you can see what I mean.)
(url=http://www.vbulletin.com) (img)http://www.cgarchitect.com/vb/images/statusicon/forum_new.gif(/img) (/url)
OR
(url=http://www.vbulletin.com) Whatever I want goes here (/url)
The green part is the link that you go to when the link is clicked. The red part is what is shown as the link. In the first example an image and inthe second text.
When you use the WYSIWYG interface and post, both the link object and the physical link are made to be the same.
If you are saying it sometimes works and sometimes does not I *think* it is probably becuase the WYSIWYG interface is getting confused and posting a link that is different from what you see in the interface. From the look of the links you posted the actual attachment number after the equal sign is being removed. I'm not sure why. If you use the Standard interface you will be able to see the actual code and fix the post manually.
Does any of that make sense?