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therube
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by therube » Sun Dec 13, 2015 1:19 pm
Board Truncating Long URLs
Since I can't find that recent thread ? just a Bump to prevent the (now new) Truncation of the Text portion of "long URLs" that are placed in [URL] tags.
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Hi.54:
Hi 456789*123456789*123456789*123456789*123456789*123460:
Hi 456789*123456789*123456789*123456789*123456789*123456789*Seems you can only fit a 54 character "textpart" in a [URL] tag before it truncates.
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03: [url=http://www.example.com]Hi.[/url]
54: [url=http://www.example.com]Hi 456789*123456789*123456789*123456789*123456789*1234[/url]
60: [url=http://www.example.com]Hi 456789*123456789*123456789*123456789*123456789*123456789*[/url]
Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.9.1.19) Gecko/20110420 SeaMonkey/2.0.14 Pinball NoScript FlashGot AdblockPlus
Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1; WOW64; rv:42.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/42.0 SeaMonkey/2.39
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barbaz
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by barbaz » Sun Dec 13, 2015 5:48 pm
It's only a visual truncation (CSS) and the thread where this was discussed is not public.
viewtopic.php?p=79988#p79988 (forum staff only)
*Always* check the changelogs BEFORE updating that important software!
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barbaz
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by barbaz » Sun Dec 13, 2015 7:09 pm
relevant quotes from the thread I linked
barbaz wrote:Looks like the "visual truncation" styling needs to not be applied to anything other than linkified urls in posts outside url tags.
therube wrote:Looks like the "visual truncation" styling needs to not be applied to anything other than linkified urls in posts outside url tags.
Right.
barbaz wrote:(Just to point out, links posted outside of url tags before the change, will still truncate as before on edit or quote post.
*Always* check the changelogs BEFORE updating that important software!
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barbaz
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by barbaz » Sun Dec 13, 2015 7:20 pm
Also, it's not 54 characters here
Displays:
123456789012345678901234567890123456789012Truncates:
1234567890123456789012345678901234567890123seems to be 42 characters max, but given that the font used isn't monospace and that when to truncate is determined by CSS length
I think horizontal size of the text is more relevant than number of characters.
*Always* check the changelogs BEFORE updating that important software!
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by barbaz » Mon Dec 14, 2015 11:36 pm
Also URL tags containing images will make the images cut off.
*Always* check the changelogs BEFORE updating that important software!
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