Hey guys!
in this page if you click in any of the allowed codes at the link column you will reach the main forum site. is it expected? i think it should bring you down at each vBCode explanation.
thanks
regards,
slackie1000
ps. of course, if this is something expected, ignore everything that i wrote.

It actually appears that's what it's supposed to do. If you hover over, say, "Indent", the Firefox status bar shows the url http://linuxquestions.org/questions/#Indent. But as you said, clicking it takes you back to the main Forums page.

[Note: This is a reconstruction of my original post -- a browser crash triggered by the LQ spell checker "ate" the original. I should know better than to not keep a text copy until I actually press the "Submit" button.]

Yes, those links are broken; but it is not the actual links, rather the linking. It's a question of some kind of base/current/relative directory not specified correctly in the HTML source. Unfortunately, I don't know HTML well enough to say exactly where the problem is.

Here is why I say this:

MepisLovers.org also uses vBulletin & has the same page. The links there work. The HTML source on the ML page & the LQ page is identical at the actual link definitions. Here is an example using the same [ident] link:
[HTML] <tr align="center">
<td class="alt2"><a href="#indent">[indent]</a></td>
<td class="alt1">Indent</td>
</tr>
[/HTML]

If I hover over the [ident] link on each page, I get:
Note the missing "misc.php?do=bbcode" in LQ.

If I construct my own LQ link adding "misc.php?do=bbcode" back in: it works, yet the source code at the link definitions is the same.

Thus I say the linking is broken, not the links themselves.

HTH pinpoint & fix the underlying problem.


BTW, 3 (three) times in a row LQ "Spell Check" crashed Konqueror 3.5.3 (SimplyMEPIS 6.0) until I removed the "HTML Code:" block from the post. Annoying, but this time I am keeping a text file of the post until it is posted.

Edit: After I submitted this post, I noticed that while my regular "Code:" blocks are displayed w/ a contrasting background color, gray, my "HTML Code:" block is displayed w/ the same bkgd color as the rest of the post, blue. I suspect this is related to the Spell Check problem noted. Hope this edit is spelled correctly -- I'm not checking it .

Edit, continued: The "HTML Code:" block displays correctly in "Preview Changes" as I write this; however, the base background color for the preview is gray, & all the code blocks show up as blue. OTOH, if I open this thread in a new tab, my pre-edit post continues to have the blue-on-blue problem for my "HTML Code:" block.

Neither do I. However, I'd like to add that when I click the link in my original post, although I'm reverted back to the main forums page, the address bar shows the entire link as the current address.

Sounds like a SimplyMEPIS/Konqueror problem-- I've had no issues with (K)Ubuntu/Firefox.

Cheers

From memory, those links used to work. It is possible that they fell foul of the upgrades from a few months ago and were converted then. Possibly.

Quite possible. Upgrades tend to do that sometimes. (all too often, actually!)

Cheers