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Not that this is helpful, but you can use the anchor tags with straight html on the board. It would be handy if obvious links didn't need to have the HTML explicitly, though.

Eric, when I post a URL that is an obvious URL, it would be great if RA would automatically turn it into a link. If I am going to post something like this: http://www.run131.com/, it is typically because I think folks may want to look at it. Also, when I post a link and add formatting and then the linkifier code, it does not work. For example the link: http://www.run131.com/ should be hot.

Trent, Haven't you brought this up before? You're right that the code should automatically create anchors for text that resemble URLs. As I look at it, although it may be somewhat inconvenient, the forum code is functional. It doesn't mean I won't fix/add it. It's just that I'm working on features that are missing from the site, like GPS uploading. As for the formating not being applied, there are two problems here. In your example, you used a pseudo anchor tag because you did not specify the href attribute. The HTML parser detected this and filled it with the inner HTML. You also placed a < u="" /> tag inside of the anchor for formating. The parser in this case will not fill in the href attribute because the inner HTML is not pure text. I haven't tried, but even if you specify the href, it probably won't work because... The second problem is more about the browser. For some reason, if you flip the order of the tags: < u="" />< a="" />http://www.run131.com/<><> it still will not work (at least in IE). It will work if you replaced u with i (http://www.run131.com/), which lead me to believe it is a browser bug.

Anyhow, you are right. Minor details. Next to GPS, this is a gnat

Eric, please excuse Trent - anything less than a 26 mile run leaves him with far too much time to wonder about minor details...we don't want anything to distract you from GPS