Changing links adds a second one instead of changing the original

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Has anyone else had this weird issue with links?


I went to change a link. Highlighted the text, opened links window. Changed link by navigating to correct page in the assets list. When I hit OK, I found that a Return had been inserted after the text. When I deleted this (either by using backspace or delete), the link reverted to its original (incorrect) path. After re-inserting the link (and getting another mysterious Return) I checked out the html and saw that instead of changing the link Matrix had just added a second link after it, so there were two <a href="./?a=xxxx"> tags one after the other, with different asset numbers. After I removed the old link in code view, it was OK.



This was in IE. In Firefox it seems OK - for the moment…

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IE has some weirdness with the WYSIWYG boundary. Was this perhaps a link right at the beginning or end of a line or the whole content itself? I find it far more stable if there is always some text (even just a . ) after the link itself. IE tends to try to want to make the link span the next line, which then HTML Tidy has to fix and so on.

It would be good to see if you can reproduce the problem and report it though, so our developers can look at it.
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Thanks Avi. It seems pretty intermittent. I looked at the code on another page in Firefox where I'd changed a link in IE and it had done the same thing, although this time the link went to to the new location rather than the old when you clicked on it in preview. But then trying to replicate it this morning it didn't work.


I'll post it as a bug, but I'm leaving next week so my colleagues will have to follow up any other issues.



Thanks for your help.


[quote]IE has some weirdness with the WYSIWYG boundary. Was this perhaps a link right at the beginning or end of a line or the whole content itself? I find it far more stable if there is always some text (even just a . ) after the link itself. IE tends to try to want to make the link span the next line, which then HTML Tidy has to fix and so on.



It would be good to see if you can reproduce the problem and report it though, so our developers can look at it.[/quote]