Giveaway of the Day Forums

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   Anonymous
   Unregistered

   I took a quick search to see if this topic had already been addressed, but I did not see it, so here we go...

   When using the href tag in the "leave a comment" submission form for giveaways, it appears it is looking for


   q

   (forward slash, double quote, greater than) before it will properly close the href tag. At least this is the case in the preview just below the comment entry. Not sure what happens if you actually post it, but didn't want to find out and waste a post / create noise.

   Not sure if this is a security feature, or a bug, but it makes it so that we cannot post links directly to forum topics, such as

   http://www.giveawayoftheday.com/forums/topic/6278

   However, it does allow you to post a link that ends with a slash, like

   http://www.giveawayoftheday.com/forums/

   Since there is no preview for forum posts (what I am typing right now), I'm not sure if this example will show up in the forums. I'll surround it with backticks as the "new topic in thie forum" comment implies.

   Example of non-working preview in leave a comment submission form (desired link direct to forum topic)

   


   e

   Example of working preview in leave a comment submission form (undesired link is too general)

   


   s

   Posted 14 years ago #
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   Anonymous
   Unregistered

   Nope, backticks did not work. sigh.

   q is defined in parenthesis right after the q.

   I'll try using the code tags...

   e = See the forum topic RadioGet bug reports and feature requests for more information.

   s = visit the Giveaway of the Day Forums and search for "radioget", and find the post entitled "RadioGet bug reports and feature requests"

   Posted 14 years ago #
3. 

   Anonymous
   Unregistered

   oh well, I give up. ;-) I cannot get the real code to appear as you would type it into the leave a comment field. But the examples given still stand when properly formatted for the leave a comment field.

   Thanks for your patience.
   Sorry if I am missing something obvious at the "leave a comment" submission form (or here in the forum).

   Posted 14 years ago #
4. 

   wizzard_of_ozz2004
   Games Master

   steve, the forum change over did away with the old <>'s and are now using []'s instead. For your url's you have to use [url] For example: Go here to continue testing markups! Hope that helps a little.

   Posted 14 years ago #
5. 

   Anonymous
   Unregistered

   Thanks, I realized that on this forum post 2, when I used the code button on the submission form and it placed them for me. However, the backticks in forum post #1 also did not work. I normally expect when using code tags in a forum post, that it is NOT going to translate html code that I put inbetween those blocks, and instead display all of the html code to the forum readers, but this was also not the case, as you can see it is translating the code and hiding the html I was trying to display to readers. Do I have a misunderstanding of what the code tags are for?

   !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
   My real original bug report in this forum topic is about the "leave a comment" submission form for giveaways.
   !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

   Thanks for your comments!

   Posted 14 years ago #

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