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Having recently upgraded to 2.5.3 i have noticed EE handles creating urls in channel entries differently.

i have some entries with content running through with

<a href="http://www">http://www</a>....

etc and EE nicely turns these into web links. However i have channel entry fields dedicated to creating urls for references exactly as i want them, and so did not want these to be automatically formatted. Originally by entering the data in the channel entry field as www…. EE would not automatically turn this into links and so i could place the content within like so;

<a href="http://{channelentryfield}">link</a>

and it would work perfectly.

Since the upgrade however EE is deciding to transform that data into an automated web link, which causes errors obviously.

It is a basic text file type within matrix with formatting etc set to no.

How do i go back to how it was?

Thanks

Hey There James,

Ugh, that is not good. I am not sure where you are entering this data. Is this in a regular text area or is this an RTE field?

I have tested in my 2.5.3 install and there is no conversion.

Please let me know.

Cheers,

It is just a regular text field within Matrix.

However i have just found that the same issue is not occurring within our test site, which is identical, was a database copy then a file copy, and was used to practice the upgrade to 2.5.3, and so should be exactly the same!

Is there anything that stands out as being a potential cause for this?

Hello jamesaa7,

Interesting. Nothing stands out to me.

What if you create another field without Matrix. Does the issue persist?

Please let me know,

Yeah just a standard text field by itself with http://www.website.com in it gets turned into a hyperlink

Hey jamesaa7,

Yikes. Okay, would love to see this for myself.

Please be on the lookout for an email from EllisLab.

Cheers,

Just checking to see if you got that email from us, jamesaa7. Need us to send it again?