Missing Publishing Hyperlink

Question

This is a good description of what I am seeing, taken from this blog post. I'm curious if this is something fixed in a service pack?

http://vasya10.wordpress.com/tag/publishing-hyperlink/

There seems to be a bug in Publishing Hyperlink field in SharePoint 2010 and it does not happen consistently. Lets say there is a List with Publishing Hyperlink site column. When you edit this list item, and focus on the url, a new “Link Tools” (green tab) appears in the editor. This brings additional properties to edit.

If you change the link value here, change and save, sometimes the link value disappears. Or if you click on Remove Link button, the “click here to add new link” disappears. I was able to verify this consistently in a totally clean site (SharePoint Server Build  14.0.5128.5000). This means you cannot add a link at all anymore. Your only option is to delete the item and add it again.

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Adam Gamradt

Answer 1

I noticed that the empty field is surrounded by a SPAN tag whose ID ends in "_RichLinkField_EmptyPanel" and there's an inline "style=display:none". If you use JQuery to unset or change the value of this style to display:inline then everything works again. This JQuery would have to run on every EditForm.aspx.