Hyperlinking smilies

[jenkins_08]

Howdy all,

I think this is a "bug" type submission so only really applies to Blink or whoever codes the BBC on this forum...

I was posting a topic recently using hyperlinks within the some smilies (the hammer entity smilies)

When hyperlinking an image there are no problems with syntax.
When hyperlinking a smiley, it will break the smiley because it removes leading and trailing spaces inside {url} and {/url}...

For example;

Say i wanted to link the cheesy grin to the homepage, normally i would of typed;

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[url=http://interlopers.net]:D[/url]

Which should look like; but explained below; this is not the case...
(above i used the actual image url and the {img} bbc

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[url=http://interlopers.net][img]http://www.interlopers.net/forum/images/smilies/icon_biggrin.gif[/img][/url]

By doing this

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[url=http://interlopers.net] :D [/url]

the leading and trailing spaces are automatically removed from ":D"

So the smiley then breaks because it needs those spaces... so the code now becomes;

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[url=http://interlopers.net]:D[/url]

which looks like :D and this is not desired.

The only way around i know of is to use the {img} tags with the actual smiley URL (bit of messing around to just link a smiley)

Thought i would bring this up, just a bit difficult to explain

Peace, Jenkins

[no00dylan]

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[url=http://interlopers.net][img]http://www.interlopers.net/forum/images/smilies/icon_razz.gif[/img][/url]

[jenkins_08]

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[url=http://interlopers.net][img]http://www.interlopers.net/forum/images/smilies/icon_razz.gif[/img][/url]

Your point being...?










read all of my post

[ad_hominem]

To be honest, it's fairly rare that anyone would want to link a smiley, and those that do want to, don't do it often enough to find the (slightly) longer way of achieving what they want annoying.

Or I guess you could put a full stop or something minimal on either side:

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[url=http://www.interlopers.net/].:D.[/url]

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[zombie@computer]

its not a bug, its a 'feature'

[jenkins_08]

its not a bug, its a 'feature'

Oh ok so like in Team Fortress 2, on 2fort you can put the teleporter above the small spawn hole and technically thats a bug, or is it another hidden Valve "feature" xD

Actually its been 5 updates since i discovered that bug and hasn't been touched yet, same with Weapon switch bug and pyro Nerf cannon in the water bug

Anyway the point of this topic was to make the admins aware that trailing and leading spaces are removed from hyperlinking after entering a forum smiley either by hand or pressing the buttons on the right

ad_hominem: i laughed when i read that, i know this is not a big deal i was just surprised to see others knew about it and hadn't said anything

Peace

[theblahman]

It's intentional to trim whitespace so people don't make massive fuckoff urls with heaps of whitespace in them.

Working as intended.

[jenkins_08]

It's intentional to trim whitespace so people don't make massive fuckoff urls with heaps of whitespace in them.

Working as intended.

Alright cool i understand, thnx for explaining