Browser issue Adding URL to highlighted text

[rwm1962]

If I type a word or phrase & then highlight it & click the 'link' function to add an URL everything I type after is also hyperlinked. eg I just want to link the word curry. I do that as described & everything typed thereafter is also linked. Easy enough to work around ie highlight & link after typing the whole post - but this is the only forum software I've used that does this.

 

[Bionic Rooster]

If you type the word curry and add more words after then hyper link curry you avoid the hyper link affecting the following words.

 

[Mr Lucky]

If you type the word curry and add more words after then hyper link curry you avoid the hyper link affecting the following words.

That sounds like a workaround you shouldn't have to do. Surely it's a bug if you can't add a link as you go along.

 

[Chris D]

A workaround is better than no workaround. Might be useful in the meantime.

 

[rwm1962]

Easy enough to work around ie highlight & link after typing the whole post

If you type the word curry and add more words after then hyper link curry you avoid the hyper link affecting the following words.

I know that. I just don't want my members to have to figure that out for themselves or my mod team to have to keep explaining it to those who bring it up.

 

[Mr Lucky]

I know that. I just don't my members to have to figure that out for themselves or my mod team to have to keep explaining it to those who bring it up.

I agree totally, although I have not experienced the issue myself. I can't get the bug to happen, is it dependant on users operating system or browser?

Test: I'll write the word link and continue typing after I link. Not a problem.

 

[Chris D]

We believe it's exclusive to Firefox.

 

[rwm1962]

Aye Chrome's fine on W7. FF fails on W7

Also fails on Firefox on Linux mint

 

[Mike]

This is basically a Firefox issue and it's quite difficult to change the behavior. I am looking at partial workarounds for specific scenarios, but they're very much not straightforward and they end up being mooted if you move the cursor around. Strictly speaking, what FF is doing isn't wrong; it's just ambiguous. If you have a cursor at the end of a link, is it inside or outside the link? Both interpretations are correct. Chrome takes the view that you're outside; the effect of this means that you can't actually extend the link from the end (you have to move back a character). FF takes the view you're inside; the effect meaning that you can't write text immediately after the link (unless you can move into it).

Just for a point of note, I have managed to trigger this in each of the "major" RTEs as well; it's not exclusive to XF.