JCE messes up links

[christine]

Hi MarkRS,
I contacted Ryan, see here on GitHub:

https://github.com/widgetfactory/jce/issues/142
There's a missing > in your Code.

Kind regards
Christine

[christine]

https://github.com/widgetfactory/jce/issues/142

Therefore Info from Ryan:

This works fine for me in JCE:

<a href="{readonlinelink}">:Click here to read online</a>

This issue here (link to this thread) ... :

is that the poster's HTML is incorrect.

Not correct:

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<a href="{readonlinelink}":Click here to read online</a>

Missing the > after "

Kind regards,
Christine

[MarkRS]

Thanks for that Christine.

Yes, the posted html is incorrect (dammit!). Unfortunately that's not the code that's having the problem. I wasn't careful enough posting it and that lack of ">" and presence of ";" is just left over from where I manually corrected (incorrectly) the "&gt;" that the editor produced.

Even when I do correctly have ">" there, ie

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<div><a href="{readonlinelink}">Click here to read online</a></div>

I get the problem.

Presumably no-one else here is seeing this same issue?

I also notice that if, in desperation, I take out the quotation marks around the variable, the editor removes everything on the line except the variable and the text that would have been in the link, separated by "&gt;".

[MarkRS]

Is it helpful to know that this isn't some badly formed newsletter I wrote myself? This is happening (for me) with the demo newsletter that is supplied with the extension :(

[MarkRS]

Ok, I've found what it is. It is being caused by JCE.

It's caused when the option "Protect Shortcode" in the active profile options (Editor Parameters -> Advanced) is on.

To be fair, the option is marked as "experimental". I'll post in Ryan's github issue, if I have access.

<Later> I have the access to comment on that issue even though it's closed, but not to re-open it. Does that need doing or will Ryan see it anyway?

[christine]

Hi MarkRS,

Ok, I've found what it is.

It's caused when the option "Protect Shortcode" in the active profile options (Editor Parameters -> Advanced) is on.

Thanks for the info directly in the issue on GitHub.

<Later> I have the access to comment on that issue even though it's closed, but not to re-open it. Does that need doing or will Ryan see it anyway?

Sure – Ryan saw it.

Ryan also replied there on Github:

Thanks for clarifying. I will see if I can get this working with Protect Shortcode enabled too.

It's not a bug, more like a feature request for him.

Kind regards,
Christine