As designed Editor adds [/URL]

[Marcus]

I wrote this post: http://xenforo.com/community/threads/existing-resources-manipulating-bbcode-tree.62414/

After tagging Chris, I went back to the post and added and some text. After I saved the post, it seems the editor added a to the end of the post.

Would be useful if the original post would be saved so one could debug the error easier.
http://xenforo.com/community/thread...ust-the-manipulated-autobbcode-content.62415/

 

[Marcus]

OK, in my #1 post I just wrote [ URL ] and some text (without space between []). The editor adds [ / U R L ] by itself. Which is generally a nice idea, but here it doesn't know where to link to so the user experience is kind of mixed

 

[Paul B]

You added an opening [URL] tag in the post body and the system automatically added a closing tag at the end.

The same would happen if you posted [QUOTE], in that the content after it would be quoted and a closing tag would be added at the end.

 

[Chris D]

This is expected behaviour. The BB Code parser attempts to close unclosed tags. Your post presumably previously contained [URL] so it naturally assumes it needs to be closed. I guess maybe it could just ignore tags that aren't closed.

But right now the workaround is to use plain tags, e.g:

[PLAIN][URL][/PLAIN]

 

[Marcus]

You added an opening [URL] tag in the post body and the system automatically added a closing tag at the end.

Exactly. I try that with , maybe this is an expected behavior from the editor?

 

[Marcus]

I see, the editor closes every open tag by itself. Thanks for the quick reply within 2 minutes! Wow.

 

[Marcus]

Maybe the editor can be told to better not close tags as it may be weird for the user having an empty link? Yesterday one user from my community did something like that with the @ - Tag, lots of the quotes were linking to a specific member.

 

[Marcus]

I meant [ U R L ] Tags.

It's true that 99,9% of all users never add any BBCode Tags themself, so that problem could be not a very important one.

 

[Mike]

All BB codes are treated the same. It's just the standard clean up procedure.