Problem using the URL button to mark text as a URL

[Jaikiran Pai]

I tried enclosing the following url in the URL tag(using the button available below), but failed while submitting the post. The error keeps mentioning that there's an invalid html tag.

http://logging.apache.org/log4j/docs/api/org/apache/log4j/PropertyConfigurator.html#doConfigure(java.lang.String,%20org.apache.log4j.spi.LoggerRepository)

[Ernest Friedman-Hill]

Yep; it's an unfortunate limitation of the software. It's the parentheses.
[ May 17, 2006: Message edited by: Ernest Friedman-Hill ]

[Jaikiran Pai]

limitation of the software

Thank you for confirming. Cant do much in such cases I still love the entire Javaranch site and whatever little features it has.

[Andrew Monkhouse]

This is a really ugly workaround, but you can replace the characters that UBB complains about with the HTML character set equivalents, and get a working URL from it.

For example: java.lang.String, org.apache.log4j.spi.LoggerRepository)" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">doConfigure(String, LoggerRepository)

To get that, I replaced the left parenthesis '(' with ( and the space with  

Regards, Andrew

[Andrew Monkhouse]

If you are not sure what I mean, try doing a quoted reply to my post by clicking on the icon at the top of my post. You will then be able to see exactly how I achieved this.

Regards, Andrew

[Jaikiran Pai]

you can replace the characters that UBB complains about with the HTML character set equivalents

Thanks Andrew, i got what you are saying.