Help.. this used to work & now does not.. what am I missing?

[SoCalDem]

had to insert spaces

square bracket link : url | words square bracket

It used to sub for a long url or made a photo clickable

[REP]

1. It does seem to be broken one DU's end

" target="_blank">image This is a valid image:

article

[Make7]

5. See post #4.

Post #4

[Skinner]

2. Working for me...

Democratic Underground



Not sure I understand the problem?

[Cerridwen]

3. I'm having an issue with https:// URLs.

http://www.democraticunderground.com/12562687

I wonder if these things are related?

I've also had the problem you describe in your OP using the 'link' html code; especially with the long URLs. Some punctuation appears to break the links.

[Make7]

4. It still works, however there are some glitches...

Last edited Tue Jul 17, 2012, 10:11 PM - Edit history (1)

... that will "break" it.

When using the [link:web address|text] tag, certain punctuation in the web address will cause it to not work and some punctuation in the text will cause it to not work properly. I think I have documented the majority of link problems (and their workarounds) in this post.

You can still use photos for the text to make a photo clickable. That should work for a normal webpage, but if you are trying to link to a picture or video there is an extra step that must be taken to make it work. For pictures, replace the period before the extension with %2E. For YouTube videos, use the standard YouTube link format and replace the question mark with %3F. For Vimeo, insert %3 in front of the video number in the URL. Examples and results:

[div style="margin-left:2em;"]Link to webpage:

[font color="#000099"][link:http://www.democraticunderground.com/index.php|http://www.democraticunderground.com/apple-touch-icon-72x72-precomposed.png][/font]


[div style="width:100%; margin-top:1.5em; border-bottom: 1px solid #bfbfbf;"]
Link to picture:

[font color="#000099"][link:http://www.democraticunderground.com/imgs/logo-du3-150x48[font style="color:#ffffff; background-color:#3366cc;"]%2E[/font]gif|http://www.democraticunderground.com/apple-touch-icon-72x72-precomposed.png][/font]


[div style="width:100%; margin-top:1.5em; border-bottom: 1px solid #bfbfbf;"]
Link to YouTube:

[font color="#000099"][link:http://www.youtube.com/watch[font style="color:#ffffff; background-color:#3366cc;"]%3F[/font]v=VyqzPu5pX6U|http://www.democraticunderground.com/apple-touch-icon-72x72-precomposed.png][/font]


[div style="width:100%; margin-top:1.5em; border-bottom: 1px solid #bfbfbf;"]
Link to Vimeo:

[font color="#000099"][link:http://vimeo.com/[font style="color:#ffffff; background-color:#3366cc;"]%3[/font]8947397|http://www.democraticunderground.com/apple-touch-icon-72x72-precomposed.png][/font]