Got it.
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If you are looking at automatically fixing long URLs, why not wrap them in an t A HREF="theOverLongURL" tag, with a generic link text (such as "long URL") followed by the t /A
Because the alternatives proposed are more informative, and as long as John does the hard part of the work, all otherwise equivalent to me.
That was John H.'s first suggestion here: John H "Buffistas Building a Better Board" Oct 27, 2002 11:29:22 pm EST
And what ita said...
I swear to god none of you are speaking English. What happened? Slowly....
Slowly? OK.
The HTML tag for a link looks kind of like this:
t a href="http://www.micheletepper.com" Me! t /a
You left off the end quotation mark at the end of that URL string, which meant that the browser thought that the URL just kept going and going and going and going.
ita fixed it by adding the final quotation mark back in.
Sorry about that unclosed HTML thing, gang. I just get so carried away with the abilility to do roman-numeral lists... we were thinking about some kind of HTML-parsing thing to automatically close that kind of thing, weren't we, before I went away?
That still seems scary to me, but ita was confident it could be made to work in theory -- ita, what's the story with that? It's not really urgent, is it?
I'll have some fixing-long-URL code this week for sure.
The story with it is that I haven't written it yet.
Sorry about that unclosed HTML thing, gang.
Actually, your error was more subtle. You opened the list with a t UL but closed it with a t /OL
So, I'm still an idiot, but I'm a knowledgeable idiot?