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I’m having a problem pulling links in from custom fields, in that they don’t always work :(

I have a custom field for the user to enter a URL which is then applied to a button:

<a href="http://{featured_link_1}%22class=%22ctaButton" class="ctaButton first"><span>{featured_button_1}</span></a>

When I enter a link with http:// at the beginning (eg. http://www.google.co.uk) it tries to go to http://mywebsite/www.google.co.uk

If I lose the http:// and just enter http://www.google.co.uk, the code gets completely screwed up - I’ve copied and pasted the result from Firebug:

<a href="http://a" class="ctaButton first">http://www.google.co.uk</a>
">

My custom field has ‘Default Text Formatting’ set to ‘None’.

Any ideas anyone? Thanks in advance

Hey there,

By default channel entries will automagically try to convert urls into links.

You can turn this option off in the channel’s preferences by going to Admin > Channel Administration > Channels > Channel Preferences > Channel Posting Preferences. Set the option for “Automatically turn URLs and email addresses into links?” to No.

If you’re interested, Trevor Davis built a plugin which turns this option off automatically for you for new channels, as it can be a little annoying 😉

Hope this helps,
Chuck

Excellent, very handy little plugin - thanks! 😊

Hi design@brash,

Did Design by Front’s suggestion get you on the right track? Is there anything else we can assist you with?

Cheers!

so glad I found this thread - solved a very annoying problem!
But would it be better if there was a way to turn off auto-links by field? I could see wanting auto-links in some fields and not in others in the same channel

Hi Mutter,

Indeed, by field would be much more flexible. The plugin referenced is 3rd party, so you can contact the author with a feature request.

Or, if you like, you can make a Feature Request to have it added to ExpressionEngine!

Cheers,