I swear I searched, but what am I doing wrong?

IUjapander said:

I'm trying to copy img thumbnails into a post.

If I hit preview once it shows up fine on my screen, but when I try to post it, it looks like this.




If you look at the url code it is taking the "/?action=view&current=Scan" which makes it work

and condescending it to "/?action=view¤t=Scan" (notice the hieroglyphs sun instead of "&current" that should be there. Can anyone please tell me what I'm doing wrong here?

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cartersprings said:

IUjapander said:

I'm trying to copy img thumbnails into a post.

If I hit preview once it shows up fine on my screen, but when I try to post it, it looks like this.




If you look at the url code it is taking the "/?action=view¤t=Scan" which makes it work

and condescending it to "/?action=view¤t=Scan" (notice the hieroglyphs sun instead of "¤t" that should be there. Can anyone please tell me what I'm doing wrong here?

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I just erased the odd character and replaced the "¤" in there and it appears to be working.
Ha, now it's doing it where I typed "& curren" (without the space). Weird. :?

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cartersprings said:

I don't think so. I'm on FF and it put the odd symbol in when I typed it out in my message. However, when I replaced it via copy & paste in the quote it worked fine.

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cartersprings said:

I don't think so. I'm on FF and it put the odd symbol in when I typed it out in my message. However, when I replaced it via copy & paste in the quote it worked fine.

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smapdi said:

Well [ url ]ACTUAL URL[ /url ] (with no spaces) makes a link. If you're trying to show an image, use [ img ]IMAGE LOCATION[ /img ] (no spaces).

Your browser also looks at what are called ascii symbols and interpolates them into non-alphanumeric characters. So &-amp; (ampersand-"amp"-semi-colon without the dashes) turns into & on-screen. Because nefarious people can exploit this for evil, publically writable websites like this one typically have a filter to prevent or pre-interpolate these constructions into something safe. And it looks like using the preview function will also do that, so if you have something like &-amp; and use the preview before submitting, you will be submitting an actual & instead of the ascii construction. In a URL, this could change &-curren to a ¤. URLs like the photobucket one pass data around in the 'query string', the part of a URL after the domain name and question mark. This is a little annoying in cases like this because each key-value pair is separated with a &, which is also the cur for your browser to look for an ascii character tag.

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smapdi said:

Well [ url ]ACTUAL URL[ /url ] (with no spaces) makes a link. If you're trying to show an image, use [ img ]IMAGE LOCATION[ /img ] (no spaces).

Your browser also looks at what are called ascii symbols and interpolates them into non-alphanumeric characters. So &-amp; (ampersand-"amp"-semi-colon without the dashes) turns into & on-screen. Because nefarious people can exploit this for evil, publically writable websites like this one typically have a filter to prevent or pre-interpolate these constructions into something safe. And it looks like using the preview function will also do that, so if you have something like &-amp; and use the preview before submitting, you will be submitting an actual & instead of the ascii construction. In a URL, this could change &-curren to a ¤. URLs like the photobucket one pass data around in the 'query string', the part of a URL after the domain name and question mark. This is a little annoying in cases like this because each key-value pair is separated with a &, which is also the cur for your browser to look for an ascii character tag.

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