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nobahn
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PostPosted: Sun Aug 05, 2012 6:42 pm Reply with quote
I KNOW that I've asked this question before, but I cannot locate the relevant threads.

How do I get this URL ([url]http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Toki_o_Kakeru_Shōjo_(1983_film)[/url]) to link properly? (and for that matter, how do I get the
Code:
[url][/url]
tags to work properly?)
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Rhyono



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PostPosted: Sun Aug 05, 2012 6:54 pm Reply with quote
Characters such as parenthesis break the BB code's parser. You can either use anchor tags, or use %28 and %29 in place of the left and right parentheses, respectively.

Other threads:

animenewsnetwork.com/bbs/phpBB2/viewtopic.php?t=1023762

animenewsnetwork.com/bbs/phpBB2/viewtopic.php?t=1058773
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nobahn
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PostPosted: Sun Aug 05, 2012 7:28 pm Reply with quote
Rhyono--
Thanks! Surprised Very Happy I feel like such a moron! Embarassed Rolling Eyes
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Dessa



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PostPosted: Sun Aug 05, 2012 10:37 pm Reply with quote
Another option would be to use HTML, since the quotations solve that problem.
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egoist



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PostPosted: Sun Aug 05, 2012 10:56 pm Reply with quote
You can also put them in Tiny url first.

WTF let me say the site's name accursed thing. Laughing
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Rhyono



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PostPosted: Mon Aug 06, 2012 12:37 am Reply with quote
Dessa wrote:
Another option would be to use HTML, since the quotations solve that problem.


Rhyono wrote:
You can either use anchor tags


That guy beat you to it.
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Dessa



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PostPosted: Mon Aug 06, 2012 1:53 am Reply with quote
And if I knew what an "anchor tag" was...
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Rhyono



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PostPosted: Mon Aug 06, 2012 8:25 pm Reply with quote
@Dessa Here you go.
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Dessa



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PostPosted: Mon Aug 06, 2012 9:02 pm Reply with quote
Huh, never knew it was called an anchor tag, or what all you could do. We were taught what to use and what it did in school, not what it was called.
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