It's a single-quote/double-quote mismatch in the HREF. Also, I'm not sure if that #a342 garbage at the end of the html is relevant.
The pound is relevant. Usually, I can fix a quote mismatch pretty easily, but this time, it wasn't letting me.
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P.M. Marc - Oct 31, 2004 2:47:20 pm PST #8551 of 10000
So come, my friends, be not afraid/We are so lightly here/It is in love that we are made; In love we disappear
§ ita § - Oct 31, 2004 2:55:47 pm PST #8552 of 10000
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
So the URL was [link] and there was a mismatched quote in the href?
Polter-Cow - Oct 31, 2004 3:04:47 pm PST #8553 of 10000
What else besides ramen can you scoop? YOU CAN SCOOP THIS WORLD FROM DARKNESS!
Yep. Opened with a single quote, closed with a double quote.
DXMachina - Oct 31, 2004 3:24:35 pm PST #8554 of 10000
You always do this. We get tipsy, and you take advantage of my love of the scientific method.
I just tried it over in Gus's lab, and the unmatched quotes were fixed automatically. Pretty cool.
Betsy HP - Nov 03, 2004 8:23:25 am PST #8555 of 10000
If I only had a brain...
Guys,
I have a really bad typo problem. I tend not to hit the shift key long enough, so I start hrefs with a ' and end them with a ". I do try to check for this, honest.
But whenever I make this mistake, it screws the board up something fierce. Is there any way to check for a ' immediately after href=?
DXMachina - Nov 03, 2004 8:41:32 am PST #8556 of 10000
You always do this. We get tipsy, and you take advantage of my love of the scientific method.
Betsy, maybe just do single quotes only? I know the brain automatically tries, but at least in the short run.
The other thing might be to just put a comma after what you want as the link subject, and just put the link there after it so Gus's magic [link] appears, like a footnote.
Polter-Cow - Nov 03, 2004 7:21:11 pm PST #8557 of 10000
What else besides ramen can you scoop? YOU CAN SCOOP THIS WORLD FROM DARKNESS!
DCJensen - Nov 03, 2004 7:47:39 pm PST #8558 of 10000
All is well that ends in pizza.
Nyah Nyah!
DCJensen - Nov 04, 2004 8:39:39 am PST #8559 of 10000
All is well that ends in pizza.
Weirdest thing, though. When I broke the board, it was because of a missing quote at the end of the URL in a link.
But when I went to edit it, my posting button woundn't work. I even tried it from IE instead of Netscape. No go.
In the end deleting was all I could do.
DXMachina - Nov 04, 2004 9:10:02 am PST #8560 of 10000
You always do this. We get tipsy, and you take advantage of my love of the scientific method.
Yeah, that's happened before. You have to do it just right, but it is possible to make a post that is unfixable. It creates a post that disables everything on the page column below the error. My guess as to the problem with trying to fix it is that the edit page displays the damaged post above the posting box, so the same disabling happens to the "post" button of the edit page, and you can't update.