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3/11/2005

Bug in Auto-hyperlink URLs WordPress plugin

March 11th 2005 Posted to Blog, Computers, General, Web, WordPress

The Auto-hyperlink URLs WordPress plugin is very cool, but I found a gnarly little bug in it while I was viewing this post:

Try posting something like this:

Here's a
<a href="http://email.about.com/cs/wincleanreviews/gr/ecleaner.htm">
review from About.com
</a>.

This gets rendered as:

Here’s a review from About.com.

where the HTML source looks like this:

Here&#8217;s a
<a href="http://email.about.com/cs/wincleanreviews/gr/ecleaner.htm">
review from
<a href="http://About.com" title="http://About.com" target="_blank">About.com</a></a>.

Unfortunately, it tries to linkify About.com even though it’s already inside a link. This causes it to fail XHTML validation, which is what made me notice this bug in the first place.

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  1. Jim Mirkalami
    February 9th, 2008 | 11:45 pm

    I have been visiting this site a lot lately, so i thought it is a good idea to show my appreciation with a comment.

    Thanks,
    Jim Mirkalami

    PS: I am a single dad. ;)

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