Solved Inline URLs without the MEDIA aspect

[Cath O'Deray]

Yesterday I struggled for around ten minutes, trying, failing to get a Reddit URL inline, within a sentence, without it being interpreted as MEDIA.

The quick brown fox jumped over the View: https://old.reddit.com/r/freebsd/comments/iw2b69/-/
URL within a sentence.

Can this effect be avoided? I want a sentence that appears to be a sentence.

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I can prevent parsing, however this defeats the object of providing what should be a link:

The quick brown fox jumped over the <https://old.reddit.com/r/freebsd/comments/iw2b69/-/> URL within a sentence.

 

[SirDice]

Hit that "[ ]" button and switch to bbcodes. Then remove that 'unfurl' bit from the [url]. Not using the [media] bbcodes should help too. I usually leave the editor on bbcode, typing the actual bbcodes gives me more control than the WYSIWYG editor and the buttons. The forum code itself tries to be too smart for its own good at times.

Example URL:
[url=https://www.freebsd.org]FreeBSD website[/url]
FreeBSD website

 

[Cath O'Deray]

Good thinking, however there's no unfurl:

Yesterday I repeatedly edited out the offending code, the MEDIA and SIZE markup seems to insert itself when content is previewed or posted.

 

[SirDice]

Yeah, the forum code recognized that it's reddit (or some other media site like youtube) link and transforms it automagically. Can be quite annoying. That's why I always edit posts with bbcodes directly.

 

[SirDice]

Apparently there's a toggle switch to turn this off for specific sites, I've turned that automagic transformation off for Reddit URLs. That should help.

 

[Cath O'Deray]

Test, using BB code alone, the quick brown fox jumped over the https://old.reddit.com/r/freebsd/comments/iw2b69/-/ inline URL.

I'll post this whilst still in BB code mode, without attempting to preview.

 

[Cath O'Deray]

… messages crossed paths, another test https://old.reddit.com/r/freebsd/comments/iw2b69/-/ and this time I'll preview before posting.

 

[Cath O'Deray]

… Another option is to use the "raw" editor and enter the bbcodes yourself. That's my preferred setting. …

I do prefer the GUI toolbar, however I very frequently switch in and out of raw mode to fix things.

A few days ago I repeatedly tried, repeatedly failed to get an inline (mid-sentence) YouTube URL without an automated unfurl. In the end I gave up and used NOPARSE to kill the link. The killed link is at https://forums.FreeBSD.org/threads/80716/post-517899

Time to retry … [URL=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J3GJvSYykio/]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J3GJvSYykio/[/URL] …

View: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J3GJvSYykio/
result …

 

[Cath O'Deray]

… result: fail. The URL markup is ignored, replaced by what XenForo believes is better.

No longer Solved …

 

[Cath O'Deray]

… please use the link editor of the forum to link to media files. That does not create a preview.

View: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J3GJvSYykio/

 

[Cath O'Deray]

Crivens there's no preview before posting (whilst drafting); please see the second attachment above.

The unwanted [MEDIA=youtube]⋯[/MEDIA] code occurs after posting.

 

[VladiBG]

You can delete my post it was a test only.


test View: https://old.reddit.com/r/freebsd/comments/iw2b69/-/ test


test

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bIlN3jCigW0

test

[NOPARSE]
test  View: https://old.reddit.com/r/freebsd/comments/iw2b69/-/ test
[/NOPARSE]
test[url unfurl="true"]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bIlN3jCigW0[/url] test

 

[Cath O'Deray]

test

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bIlN3jCigW0

test

 

[Cath O'Deray]

[url unfurl="false"]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bIlN3jCigW0[/url]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bIlN3jCigW0

So, if I understand correctly:

1. toggle BB code (hide the toolbar)
2. manually add [url unfurl="false"]⋯[/url] code.

 

[VladiBG]

no need to toggle the bb code. For some time now before and after the bb code Xeno now inserts a CRLF

 

[Cath O'Deray]

Test: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bIlN3jCigW0