Problem with editing posts that contain certain HTML code

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Apr 25, 2002 | 11:26 AM

Stoney

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Problem with editing posts that contain certain HTML code

Hi,

Editing appears to break certain HTML code.

I posted a message last year with lots of links.
<A HREF="https://forums.audiworld.com/a6/msgs/95850.phtml">https://forums.audiworld.com/a6/msgs/95850.phtml</A>

I wanted to post a new message using some of the same content. So I visited that message, hit edit, and copied the info. I pasted it into a new message, and posted.

Unfortunately, the forum seems to replace some HTML characters with other codes, such that after editing, the codes no longer work. None of the Map links worked.

However, when I found my source on hard disk, and pasted that into the new message window, everything worked fine:
<A HREF="https://forums.audiworld.com/a6/msgs/146559.phtml">https://forums.audiworld.com/a6/msgs/146559.phtml</A>

I'm not sure if this means that a message with HTML code for certain types of links (such as maps) cannot be edited without breaking the links. In my case, it did. But perhaps something happened between last November 2001 (the original message) and today (April 25, 2002).

Apr 25, 2002 | 01:29 PM

Johannes Erdfelt

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Ahh, I see what you mean

It's a bit too aggressive in converting the & sign to it's SGML entity. It shouldn't be doing it for non text, like the URL for a link. I'll see about getting this fixed ASAP.

Apr 29, 2002 | 10:22 AM

Stoney

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It converted an ampersand in the text portion of a link ...

... to "&amp;" today. First, I posted a link as HTML, <A HREF="https://forums.audiworld.com/a6/msgs/147274.phtml">NorCal A6 Drive -- pictures by Randy Welch & others</A>. Upon editing, it was converted.

FWIW...

Thanks!