XF 2.3 Why does copying hyperlinks from external sites to my forum show up in html format?

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Aaron1981

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I copy a hyperlinked text like the one below to my forum:
As social scientists, psychologists aim to understand the behavior of individuals and groups. [3][4]
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On my forum, it shows up as this:
As social scientists, psychologists aim to understand the behavior of individuals and groups.<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Psychology#cite_note-Fernald-3"><span>[</span>3<span>]</span></a><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Psychology#cite_note-Psychology-4"><span>[</span>4<span>]</span></a>
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I see the hyperlinked text is turned into html format, and I don't remember this happening before. Is there a way to keep the hyperlinked format when copying from an external site? How can I fix this?
 
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Testing that link here for you, not sure if you've tried it here, but this is it:

books.google.com

Psychology

"Dodge Fernald writes an interesting, easy-to-read book for students. Each perspective covers the historical underpinnings of psychology, ending with current models and viewpoints as well as comments and critiques of the perspective. That's important and will help the next generation of scholars...
books.google.com

Editing: I followed the link you posted and then copied the link from there, which is what you are seeing above. Not sure how the link you posted equates to where it leads. Strange!
 
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Confirmed Thread 'Hyperlinks copied from external sites show up in html format on my forum'

I copy a hyperlinked text like the one below to my forum:
As social scientists, psychologists aim to understand the behavior of individuals and groups. [3][4]
Click to expand...

On my forum, it shows up as this:
As social scientists, psychologists aim to understand the behavior of individuals and groups.<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Psychology#cite_note-Fernald-3"><span>[</span>3<span>]</span></a><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Psychology#cite_note-Psychology-4"><span>[</span>4<span>]</span></a>
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This bug seems to occur after upgrading to Xenforo...
 
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So it's not just the link itself, rather it's the whole block that contains links - if that's the case then what you are copying it the HTML, which is why it's rendering as such. It would be better to copy the text first and then the links separately. I can't say whether the system was capable of separating the two in previous versions, but if you are copying HTML, then HTML is what you will get. Let's see if this qualifies as a bug, as I'd be interested to know how the system will cope with separating HTML code from the text and the links within its parameters.
 
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Davyc said:
So it's not just the link itself, rather it's the whole block that contains links - if that's the case then what you are copying it the HTML, which is why it's rendering as such. It would be better to copy the text first and then the links separately.
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That's what I thought at first. BUT You can paste the whole block from Wikipedia, with links, and it works fine in 2.2.16 and has done for years before that. But not with 2.3, that's where this issue arises.
 
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Mr Lucky said:
That's what I thought at first. BUT You can paste the whole block from Wikipedia, with links, and it works fine in 2.2.16 and has done for years before that. But not with 2.3, that's where this issue arises.
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I've never had to do this, so it was unusual to me how the system could differentiate between text, code and links, but if it worked in a previous iteration, then something must have changed in the current version. I've never had to copy full blocks of text from Wikipedia with links before, but it just seemed strange how those separations were implemented - this is coming from a retired website developer who never came across this before, so it will be interesting to see how this plays out :)
 
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Davyc said:
I've never had to do this, so it was unusual to me how the system could differentiate between text, code and links, but if it worked in a previous iteration, then something must have changed in the current version. I've never had to copy full blocks of text from Wikipedia with links before, but it just seemed strange how those separations were implemented - this is coming from a retired website developer who never came across this before, so it will be interesting to see how this plays out :)
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Confirmed Thread 'Hyperlinks copied from external sites show up in html format on my forum'

I copy a hyperlinked text like the one below to my forum:
As social scientists, psychologists aim to understand the behavior of individuals and groups. [3][4]
Click to expand...

On my forum, it shows up as this:
As social scientists, psychologists aim to understand the behavior of individuals and groups.<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Psychology#cite_note-Fernald-3"><span>[</span>3<span>]</span></a><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Psychology#cite_note-Psychology-4"><span>[</span>4<span>]</span></a>
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This bug seems to occur after upgrading to Xenforo...
 
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