Forum Hyperlinks including trailing periods

Question

Every time I post a link and add a trailing period, the period is added to the hyperlink which of course makes the hyperlink invalid.

http://social.msdn.microsoft.com/Forums/en-US/newthread?category=usingforums&forum=reportabug.

I just copied and pasted the above link, typed a period -- which is normal when including the hyperlink in a sentence such as

See the following amazing post here: http://social.technet.microsoft.com/Forums/en-US/configmanagergeneral/thread/93268763-99fb-4c49-89b2-2129bc1ccfed.

But of course, this doesn't work because it added my period to the hyperlink which was defintiely not in the hyperlink initially.

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Jason | http://blog.configmgrftw.com | Twitter @JasonSandys

Answer 1

This is a known issue if you are using the Community Bridge and you are posting with the plain text converter enabled. The fix is to post in HTML.

 

The problem shouldn't happen if you are posting in the web interface.

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Stefan Blom, Microsoft Word MVP

Answer 2

I'm using IE 9 and posting using the web interface.

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Jason | http://blog.configmgrftw.com | Twitter @JasonSandys

Answer 3

Um, a bug is a bug is a bug. If it disrupts my ability to help the community and degrades the quality of my posts because people can't click on my links, then it should be fixed. Adding a period to the end of a sentence is standard thing to do and if the interface doesn't handle this correctly, it should be fixed.

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Jason | http://blog.configmgrftw.com | Twitter @JasonSandys

Answer 4

I noticed the same problem. Every time I post a link and then try to add something, it underlines the next character. I have to delete it, put a space, then re-type.

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