Link insert problem

Last post 04-03-2006, 7:37 PM by ben_da_dog@yahoo.co.uk. 2 replies.
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  •  04-02-2006, 8:56 PM 17800

    Link insert problem

    Hi,

    There's a bug with the Insert Hyperlink dialog.

    It completely ignores the Type parameter (http, mailto, etc), which makes it impossible to insert either an external link or a mailto link without editing the html code, which we can't ask our html-uneducated clients to do.

    This is pretty bad for something as simple and common as a web link.

    Can you please provide fix asap?

    Ben[dog]

  •  04-03-2006, 5:41 AM 17804 in reply to 17800

    Re: Link insert problem

    Ben,
     
    Can you reproduce the problem in the following link?
     
     
    If so, please tell me the steps to reproduce this issue.
     
     

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  •  04-03-2006, 7:37 PM 17838 in reply to 17804

    Re: Link insert problem

    Yes, same problem on the page you've sent me.

    Now here's more details.

    This happens differently between Firefox (version 1.5)  & IE 6, so you might want to try both and see the difference

    Step to reproduce:
    select some text in the edit box, click on the Insert Link icon (the chain).

    First difference, in Firefox, the Type dropdown defaults to Http://,
    in IE it defaults to Other.

    In the URL field, enter www.myexample.com, with http:// selected in type. Hit OK

    Click on HTML to view the code.
    In IE, the link is inserted correctly (http://www.myexample.com), but in Firefox, the link remains just www.myexample.com.

    If you try in Firefox to use any other value from the Type dropdown, for instance mailto: , it simply ignores the Type parameter, which is never inserted, and this is really back because link are then interpreted as relative to the current folder when you click on them.

    That's for Firefox.

    Now here's another interesting one, but not a functional issue as such.
    In IE this time,  when you select the mailto Type in the dropdown, and type in, bob@bob.com in the URL for instance, the code inserted is escaped with HTML escape code (that is: <a href="mailto:bob@bob.com">many </a>) which does work but seems pretty unnecessary.

    Can you provide a fix for these issues asap?

    My configuration is, if that helps:
      * Windows XP Pro - With SP2
      * IE Version 6.0.2900.2180
      * Firefox Version 1.5.0.1

    Thanks,


    Ben


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