URL entry

[dthomsen8]

Why is it that after entering a URL with the icon, I can't get the link and its underlining to stop? For example, see:

http://www.desktoppublishingforum.com/bb/showthread.php?p=54296#post54296

where I was unable to get the underlining to stop without starting a new line. Here in this message, I ducked the problem by entering the message, and using the Edit to continue after the URL. That is a circumvention, not a a good technique, though.

[ktinkel]

Why is it that after entering a URL with the icon, I can't get the link and its underlining to stop? For example, see:

http://www.desktoppublishingforum.com/bb/showthread.php?p=54296#post54296

where I was unable to get the underlining to stop without starting a new line. Here in this message, I ducked the problem by entering the message, and using the Edit to continue after the URL. That is a circumvention, not a a good technique, though.It doesn’t happen to me in Safari (at least in part because that browser shows the URL code in brackets before and after the link).

Now I am going to try it in Firefox in a link to the DTP Forum home page (http://desktoppublishingforum.com/) — and I do get the link extending. Hmm.

I agree that it is a nasty habit. The easiest way around it is to type out your message, including the text you will use for the link, and then go back and use the URL icon just on the selected text.

Otherwise, select everything from the end of the link (and you will probably be swept away to the linked site). But when you come back to your open message, you will be able to use the un-URL icon to make the extra text normal.

[annc]

Why is it that after entering a URL with the icon, I can't get the link and its underlining to stop?That's common in the editors used in forum messages. I remember being thoroughly annoyed by it on CompuServe when the forums went to the web

I endorse Kathleen's recommendation to type your message including the text you want to appear as the link, then select that text and apply the link via the link icon.

[dthomsen8]

It doesn’t happen to me in Safari (at least in part because that browser shows the URL code in brackets before and after the link).

Now I am going to try it in Firefox in a link to the DTP Forum home page (http://desktoppublishingforum.com/) — and I do get the link extending. ...



Quite right, this is Firefox behavior.

[Hugh Wyn Griffith]

Does putting a space at the end of the URL not stop the underlinging and blueing?

[Hugh Wyn Griffith]

If a space follows the URL/link then it doesn't extend in P-CIS in my experience with IE but what does happen still is that the underlining disappears when you post -- it's there in the editor but not when posted although I'm told you can use the HTML code to put it in and it stays.