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    Posted: 14 Feb 2018 at 15:26
Using IE, if I right click on a URL in the address box top left, I can then paste that URL into a post here, and it is a "live" link.
Others have problems doing this, the copy and paste works of course, but all that is copied is the text.
 
If any of you have this problem, could you help by posting your browser detail? Trying to find out why this is and if it's browser related.
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Post Options Post Options   Thanks (0) Thanks(0)   Quote iansoady Quote  Post ReplyReply Direct Link To This Post Posted: 14 Feb 2018 at 16:38
I sometimes find I need to press carriage return after inserting a link but not sure if it's necessary here.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Babs_(land_speed_record_car)

Interestingly it only turned the first part of that into a link (before the opening bracket).

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Babs_(land_speed_record_car)


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Post Options Post Options   Thanks (0) Thanks(0)   Quote iansoady Quote  Post ReplyReply Direct Link To This Post Posted: 14 Feb 2018 at 16:40
And the second time it's just put text......

Firefox 58.02 64 bit, Windows 10 pro (up to date).

http://www.iansoady.org.uk/Arrow/

but that one worked without a carriage return. It may depend on some of the characters in the URL?
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Post Options Post Options   Thanks (0) Thanks(0)   Quote Mike H Quote  Post ReplyReply Direct Link To This Post Posted: 14 Feb 2018 at 18:59
Firefox can do it like IE, however in any case to be sure it displays properly put it between [ url ] ... [ /url ] (without the spaces)


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Agreed, that's the guaranteed way.
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I am told that copying URLs with Internet Explorer or Edge it is automatically converted to a live link. With Chrome and Firefox it doesn't, but looking into a fix.

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Sounds browser related to me then. Big smile

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Post Options Post Options   Thanks (0) Thanks(0)   Quote Brian UK Quote  Post ReplyReply Direct Link To This Post Posted: 23 Feb 2018 at 22:00
The forum designers say.
The post editor uses the Rich text Editing API built in to the web browser.
The Microsoft one for IE and Edge auto turns URL's in to hyperlinks, but the others for Chrome and Firefox do not.
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