New Forum does not correctly linkify a URL with a # part

[Andrew Neil]

eg, see here:

 

https://www.st.com/resource/en/user_manual/um1690-discovery-kit-for-stm32f0-series-microcontrollers-with-stm32f072rb-stmicroelectronics.pdf#page=13

 

The #page=13 should be included in the URL, so that the linked PDF opens at page 13

[Lina_DABASINSKAITE]

Hi ​@Andrew Neil , 

This is a URL from st.com. When I click on the link, I get redirected to the 13 page of the document:
 

Can you please share a screenshot or a video where it fails for you? 

Thanks,
Lina 

[Andrew Neil]

Note how only the first part of the URL is underlined - not the #page=13 part:

 

At the bottom of the screenshot, you can see that the link is just the PDF - it doesn’t have the  #page=13 part.

 

The problem report is that the forum should linkify (underline) the entire URL - including the  #page=13 part - but it doesn’t.

 

Yes, I can manually select the entire URL, and go to it:

but I shouldn’t need to do that.

 

 

[Lina_DABASINSKAITE]

Thanks for clarifying ​@Andrew Neil. I will pass it to the technical team for a review. 

As for the accessibility, when I click on the URL, it opens the page 13, without selecting the whole URL. Do you get the same experience? 

[Andrew Neil]

A discovery!

(pun intended)

 

My process has been:

1. Find the appropriate page in the PDF
2. Copy the URL from the browser address bar - this does not include the page reference
3. Paste this URL - without page reference - into the post
4. Add the page reference.

On the old forum, it didn’t linkify until after I had added the page reference (at #4)  - then it would linkify the whole URL

On the new forum, it linkifies immediately the URL - without page reference - is pasted into the post (at #3); it then does not extend the linkification as the page reference is added.

 

So a workaround is to add the page reference in the browser address bar, copy that, and then paste that into the post:

https://www.st.com/resource/en/user_manual/um1690-discovery-kit-for-stm32f0-series-microcontrollers-with-stm32f072rb-stmicroelectronics.pdf#page=13

Now we do get the entire thing as a link to the specific page.

 

 

[Lina_DABASINSKAITE]

​@Andrew Neil, indeed, once you’ve had the complete link into the editor, it behaves correctly.

The vendor team also confirmed it. This is an expected behavior. 

[Andrew Neil]

In many cases, the behaviour of the old system was a problem - because it would “swallow” unwanted text/characters into a URL.

eg, if the URL was at the end of the sentence, and the poster added a full-stop to close the sentence, that full stop would end-up included in the link.

 

​@Lina_DABASINSKAITE  

This is an expected behavior

So, on balance, it’s probably a better behaviour.