vB code page bug?
 

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. :scratch:

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