What in the world is up with the coding?

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Ok, why in the world does the right HTML coding for a bannerlink -not- work, and the wrong one work?

Here’s what I mean-

<a href="http://mythrignoc.deviantart.com/" target="_blank" ><img src="http://i15.photobucket.com/albums/a368/Mythrignoc/MythicDesignsBanner.jpg" width="600px" height="150px" >

I’m 99% sure that’s the correct way to do an Href banner link in basic HTML. However, what -actually- happened was instead of resizing the image, it replaced it with the “Image was moved or deleted from photobucket” note. I found out the reason why, it’s because the code decided to include the quotations at the end of the image link, thus making the link actually load like this-

http://i15.photobucket.com/albums/a368/Mythrignoc/MythicDesignsBanner.jpg"

Here’s the code I actually have now (after a manual resizing of the image through PSP)-

<a href="http://mythrignoc.deviantart.com ><img src="http://i15.photobucket.com/albums/a368/Mythrignoc/MythicDesignsBanner.jpg"></a>

So…apparently this works, despite the fact that I had to erase a Quotation mark from the deviant art link.

What’s wrong with the forum coding to make simple HTML fuck up so hard?

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Re: What in the world is up with the coding?

The board does not allow image resizing using code to prevent people from posting images set so large they break the board layout

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Re: What in the world is up with the coding?

Ok, that explains why the right one didn’t work.

Now, why does the wrong one work? The one that has a purposely placed error in the link itself?

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Re: What in the world is up with the coding?

Part of my reply went missing (stupid fucking verizon…)

I’ll look into that part in the morning as it’s probably going to require looking at the board settings in the database and the code itself.

I post links like that all the time on other boards on the server running the same version, so it’s something specific to this installation.

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Re: What in the world is up with the coding?

Just so you know I am looking into this but a thunderstorm took out phone and DSL service in my neighborhood so it may be a few hours before I can fix it once I find the problem.

(I’m working from copies of the DB and files in the last backup)

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Re: What in the world is up with the coding?

Oh it’s no big deal, I’m not desperate for it or anything, I was just curious.

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Re: What in the world is up with the coding?

Actually the embed problem is a separate issue that I’ll PM you about later.

Oh, and yes I am posting from my BlackBerry. One of the nice things about SMF is that it provides a mobile view without any hacks.

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Re: What in the world is up with the coding?

<a href="http://mythrignoc.deviantart.com/"><img src="http://i15.photobucket.com/albums/a368/Mythrignoc/MythicDesignsBanner.jpg" /></a>

Jaks, try posting that version of the code in your signature and let me know what happens.

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Re: What in the world is up with the coding?

Works fine for now. Still, very odd coding.

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