Barnaby Posted October 14, 2013 Share Posted October 14, 2013 Hello is anyone else having difficulties posting links within a post. This has just started to happen, I can copy a link and it will post down onto a "windows word" page but not into a post on here. Unless I'm doing it wrong something has gone awry. Regards Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold beast66606 Posted October 14, 2013 RMweb Gold Share Posted October 14, 2013 Test http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-wales-24506122 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kenton Posted October 14, 2013 Share Posted October 14, 2013 You need to ensure the url is complete www.bbc.co.uk doesn't work it requires the 'http://' bit also beware shortened urls http://www.thesite.com/..etc they appear to work but don't as the editor thinks they are and encloses the plain text in [url=....][/url] bbcode brackets. Windows Word is probably using some additional encoding - best to use a plain text editor like notepad. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Free At Last Posted October 14, 2013 Share Posted October 14, 2013 I have noticed I can't paste using right click on mouse, paste is greyed out, but can use "control+v". Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Barnaby Posted October 14, 2013 Author Share Posted October 14, 2013 Nope nothing seems to work for me not even ctrl + V nothing shows at all. my right click PASTE is also greyed out. I can post links on the GOG forums and the link I copy off here will post down onto a Word doc so either something is set incorrectly with my posting system on here or something is awry. I've cursor-ed all the edit headings and all seem correct. I can even copy a link off here and post that onto the GOG forum, but that's not where I want to post it. It's a pain. Thanks gents I think this needs Martín Wynne to investigate. Regards Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold The Stationmaster Posted October 14, 2013 RMweb Gold Share Posted October 14, 2013 Test http://www.google.co.uk/search?client=safari&rls=en&q=staverton+signalbox&ie=UTF-8&oe=UTF-8&gws_rd=cr&ei=XQ5cUpTbAcS80QXxu4DwDg Done by copying the url (from another window) and then pasting into the post Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Barnaby Posted October 17, 2013 Author Share Posted October 17, 2013 Sorted - it seems I had activated or de-activated the first button top line when posting, it says {BBCode Mode} on it. I can now post links. I had noticed that Kenton had mentioned this but I took it to refer to what he had written just before it. Test >>> http://www.rmweb.co.uk/community/index.php?/topic/15931-bury-thorn-sons/ See all good now. Regards Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
truffy Posted October 22, 2013 Share Posted October 22, 2013 I cannot seem to post links today. The floating dialogue box comes up, and I paste the URL into the correct form field, but clicking 'OK' does nothing. In fact, clicking 'Cancel' and 'Close' does nothing either. I have to use the back button on the browser to get out, thereby losing my post. More to the point, I cannot paste anything into the comment box at all. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
truffy Posted October 24, 2013 Share Posted October 24, 2013 Posting image links doesn't work either. But I think that this might be a problem with Internet Exploder 11, since I had no problem with Safari just now. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Boris Posted October 24, 2013 Share Posted October 24, 2013 Possibly, I use Firefux which seems to be ok at the moment Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Barnaby Posted October 24, 2013 Author Share Posted October 24, 2013 Truffy see my post #7 above. I had the same problem and all I did was as I said above, to repeat. When writing a post you get a menu bar above with various buttons on it, the first button the one with a "n" in it is the button I pressed. Afterwards I found I could post links, I also have just recently installed ie11. It does something to the text format but it does let you post links, do it just before you post a link and see. Is it not thought worthy of investigation by the technical team. Regards Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
truffy Posted October 25, 2013 Share Posted October 25, 2013 Hi Barnaby, thank you for your reply, but I'm not sure that your fix works for me. The button with the 'n' is supposed to look like a flick-switch, and it turns the formatting bar on and off (buttons become faded and cannot be used). The problem as I have it is this: when the menu bar is active I can use text formatting but I cannot paste into the reply box and the 'floating palettes' (for links, images etc.) do not work; when the menu bar is inactive I can paste into this reply box (ta-daa! http://www.rmweb.co.uk/community/index.php?/topic/77358-unable-to-post-links-in-posts/), but URLs and images won't work. I guess I'll just have to post from my Mac if I want to add images or URLs. Edit: Aha! It appears that the forum uses BBEncode, in which case I can probably kludge it! The forum software will automatically set an URL to be clickable, but I will have to resort to BBE if I want text to be a link or to add an image. Or use the Mac. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Barnaby Posted October 25, 2013 Author Share Posted October 25, 2013 Lol my head hurts truffy I've been trying other browsers to see what happens [ta daaaa! nope nothing until I press "n" again 2x taa daaaaa! http://www.rmweb.co.uk/community/index.php?/topic/77358-unable-to-post-links-in-posts/&do=findComment&comment=1201838. Pressing the "n" button makes my text font change to something different but it allows me to post links If I press the "n" button again my printed text reverts back to normal but the link still shows but I can't post any additional links unless I press the "n" button again. Can one of you PC wizards give me a clue [only been like this since ie11.] As truffy says I can get by but it is very KLUDGEY. PS what does the special bb code button do. I also can't change text colour and I can't see the pre-view button before posting? Regards Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
truffy Posted October 25, 2013 Share Posted October 25, 2013 The BB code button switches the editor between plain text and WYSIWYG. But I guess the WYSIWYG editor is knackered under IE11. Bloody Windows 8, if it wasn't such a hassle I'd upgrade to version 7. Pasted URL: http://www.rmweb.co.uk/community/index.php?/topic/77358-unable-to-post-links-in-posts/&do=findComment&comment=1202281 Attempt at text link Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
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