Link output for news items

I need some more help on my Matrix blog… http://www2.aetn.org/outreach/blog


Everything is groovy with categorizing blog posts (news items). I wound up using some extra asset listings to go along with those Folders to add some better functionality.



My new problem is painting links for Del.icio.us, Digg, reddit, and Technorati on each of the blog posts. These links are added to each news item by a paint layout, the same paint design that adds the comments listing and the comments builder. What is happening is that the paint layout is appending the absolute URL for the post to the beginning of the link. This appendage does not show up in the source code of the page. However, if you mouse over the link and look in the status bar of your browser, or copy the link location and paste it in notepad you can see the error.



Example:

The code in the paint layout is like this

    <a href=”http://del.icio.us/post?url=%asset_url%”> Del.icio.us




And what Matrix is creating is like this
    http://www2.aetn.org/outreach/blog/archives/events2/”http://del.icio.us/post?url=http://www2.aetn.org/outreach/blog/archives/events2/aetn_hosts_kids_computer_academy_at_centerpoint”

Did you copy and paste anything from MS Word?

It looks to me like your quotes for your anchor tags are "smart quotes" and they are getting converted somehow. Make sure that they are just plain quotes. When viewing your source, you can see that the quotes used for those tags are different.

[quote]Did you copy and paste anything from MS Word?


It looks to me like your quotes for your anchor tags are "smart quotes" and they are getting converted somehow. Make sure that they are just plain quotes. When viewing your source, you can see that the quotes used for those tags are different.[/quote]



Nic, You ROCK! That was it. I didn't copy from Word (yuk!) but from another blog online.



Thanks a bunch!

[quote]Nic, You ROCK! That was it. I didn't copy from Word (yuk!) but from another blog online.


Thanks a bunch![/quote]



No problem. Happy to help. :slight_smile:

I love it when you guys solve your own problems. :smiley:


(Though, in an effort to appear useful, I split out these posts from another thread into a new thread the support forum)


Ah, we try our best. :)