links in comments

  • Resolved jimsolt

    (@jimsolt)


    18 years, 2 months ago

    When I search for posts/docs on this subject all I find is ways to LIMIT links in comments.
    When posting a comment as administrator I’d like to include links sometimes.
    In order to do this so far, I’ve had to compose the comment written in html since I can’t find a way to incorporate the rich text editor available in a normal post.

    When I do this, I have trouble getting certain links to actually be links — they appear as links (color and for some reason underlined) but don’t perform as links. When I click nothing happens.

    Other times using the same html (cut and paste, so I’m sure it’s the same)I get a normal usable link. It appears in color and NO UNDERLINE.

    Two questions:

    Is there a way to avoid writing in html and use the same rich text editor as in normal posts?

    And why would certain links work and others don’t. In one case the link to Daily Kos worked — the link to a Daily Kos specific story didn’t. Too long? I don’t understand it. Also are there limits for number of links in comments? I read this is a built in spam catcher.

    Thanks.

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  • Perhaps I’m overly lucky…

    but with my blog, just typing “https://domain.com” with nothing fancy around it will make it a link.

    Only need to do the html linking (<a href= etc) if you want the link text to be different than the url.

    And google around a bit as there are several plugins that add wysiwyg editing to comments.

    Thread Starter jimsolt

    (@jimsolt)

    Very strange . . . when I tried what you suggested, to worked for me too. I would swear it didn’t before.
    Could it be that I didn’t type in the entire url — perhaps as I casually do all the time, leave out the “htp://” part?
    And I didn’t try the longer urls, but I will do that and also google for wysiwyg editors.
    Thanks.

    I’m pretty sure the key, as you observed, is starting the url with https:// ??

    Thread Starter jimsolt

    (@jimsolt)

    I’m pretty sure the key, as you observed, is starting the url with https:// ??
    Me too . . . now!
    I installed “Xinha”, a Firefox wysiwyg editor, and it works fine, solving the problem of writing in html – not my first language.
    Thanks for help.

    I don’t know about writing a comment from scratch, but if you edit existing comments you may see that the actual link contains a rel=”nofollow” tag. If you change the “nofollow” to “true” it should work from then on.

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