Board Truncating Long URLs

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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.

03: Hi.

54: Hi 456789*123456789*123456789*123456789*123456789*1234

60: 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]

[barbaz]

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)

[barbaz]

relevant quotes from the thread I linked

Looks like the "visual truncation" styling needs to not be applied to anything other than linkified urls in posts outside url tags.

Looks like the "visual truncation" styling needs to not be applied to anything other than linkified urls in posts outside url tags.

Right.

(Just to point out, links posted outside of url tags before the change, will still truncate as before on edit or quote post.

[barbaz]

Also, it's not 54 characters here
Displays:
123456789012345678901234567890123456789012
Truncates:
1234567890123456789012345678901234567890123

seems to be 42 characters max, but given that the font used isn't monospace and that when to truncate is determined by CSS length

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max-width: 26em;

I think horizontal size of the text is more relevant than number of characters.

[barbaz]

Also URL tags containing images will make the images cut off.