Auto-linking issue

[Baby Astronaut]

When the forums software puts URL tags around links, it fails to do a complete tag-wrap if the link ends in a parenthesis.

 

See the examples below.

 

Have a look at the following:

 

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Turritopsis_nutricula

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hydra_(genus)

 

BTW, speaking of the Marine Hymn, you guys noticed name of the US destroyer that rescued Captain Phillips, right? It's a masterful bit of irony.

 

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/USS_Bainbridge_(DDG-96)

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Bainbridge

[Cap'n Refsmmat]

You'd have to file a bug with the vBulletin people. The trouble is that there'll also be people putting links in parentheses and having them put inside the URL if you do it the other way.

 

If you want to avoid the problem, you can write in the URL tags yourself. Unfortunately BBCode parsing is rather limited.

[Sayonara]

This has been a problem for a while now. Until there is a bug fix, you just need to manually enter the tags or remember to edit after you post.

[Royston]

On a related note. My attachment folder is nearly full, and I don't want to delete the images that I have stored...yet, so I tried starting a thread last night, to share some pics from imageshack. However I couldn't get the links to work.

Initially I just used the code the images come with, for message boards, but I just got a small box appear, with no image when I previewed the post. I tried a few other alternatives (where I can't remember exactly, what I tried) but they failed as well e.g I got a link to the image, rather than the image itself.

What's the right method for imbedding pictures into a post, via a url that I'm missing...specifically for imageshack (if that makes a difference.) I did a quick scan of the FAQ's, the BB code list et.c so maybe I just missed something obvious...any ideas ?

[iNow]

Make sure it's the correct file type (like ".jpg" or ".gif" and not ".html") and put it between

 

Something like this:

 

http://www.photobucket.com/Accounts/SnailStuff/PictureName.jpg' alt='PictureName.jpg'>

[Royston]

Thanks iNow, I'll give it another go tonight.

[Baby Astronaut]

Yeah Snail, or hit the icon on the left of the "Quote tags" icon, and voilà....

 

[Royston]

Unfortunately, I'm getting over sized thumb nails, when I try to embed the images. I've tried uploading the pictures in different formats, size et.c, but they're still producing thumb nails when I try to stick them on SFN...what am I doing wrong ?

[Baby Astronaut]

Unfortunately, I'm getting over sized thumb nails, when I try to embed the images. I've tried uploading the pictures in different formats, size et.c, but they're still producing thumb nails when I try to stick them on SFN...what am I doing wrong ?

Do one now, and let's examine how you coded it.

[Royston]

Here's the link...

 

http://img205.imageshack.us/my.php?image=spnemc.jpg

 

and variations of...

 

 

[/img]

Which clearly looks rubbish. I'm sure this is irritatingly easy...how do you get the image to fill the screen, or at least as large as the picture in the link.

[iNow]

Use this link between img tags instead:

 

http://img205.imageshack.us/img205/6964/spnemc.jpg

 

 

 

I grabbed that by opening the link you provided, right clicking over the photo and clicking "Copy image location." If you don't use firefox, right-click, select properties, and grab the image location from there.

[Royston]

Thanks again for the help iNow, so...