> What happens is every time you edit a post in these forums, it replaces the quotes (") in your link with "

That’s only if you use Firefox. IE doesn’t have a problem with this. It leaves the quotes alone. I wish Firefox would fix this.

~jr

I didn't use quotes at all, and I've done it with not using the http, and using it, and still had this problem. I don't think that that's the problem. Though, I'm open to the option being the case.

Dave

** I didn't use quotes at all, **

You HAVE to use quotes around the http:// address inside any <a tag, otherwise it doesn't work. It's standard html syntax, doesn't work any different here.

Here is the correct syntax to get Google to open in a new window:

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

This will produce this link:

google.com

If you want to have it open in a new window, you use this syntax:

<a href="http://www.google.com/" target="_blank">google.com</a>

Merry Christmas!

John, how did you escape the html so it didn't show as a link?

You use the HTML ampersand (&) codes in place of the character itself. For instance, to get the

<

to appear, but not be interpreted as HTML, you type

&#38

If you type this, and then submit your post to the Sony forum, all you will get is the

<

character, and it will NOT be interpreted as HTML code. You then do this for every other special character in the HTML syntax.

Now, don't even think of asking me how I got the &#38 syntax to appear above instead of just the < character.

Here are many of the codes

 &#38 &

 &#34 "

 / /   slash 

 0- 9  digits 0-9 

 : :   colon 

 &#59; ;   semicolon 

 &#60; <   less-than sign 

 &#61; =   equals sign 

 &#62; >   greater-than sign 

 &#63; ?   question mark 

 &#64; @   at sign 

 &#65;- &#90;  uppercase letters A-Z 

 &#91; [   left square bracket 

 &#92; \   backslash 

 &#93; ]   right square bracket 

 &#94; ^   caret 

 &#95; _   horizontal bar (underscore) 

 &#96; `   grave accent 

 &#97;- &#122;  lowercase letters a-z 

 &#123; {   left curly brace 

 &#124; |   vertical bar 

 &#8226 bullet

Marquat,
Thanks for prompting to do some current research on the subject.
It is to the credit of newer browsers that they will parse most urls without quotes.
It is also interesting to note that my newer browsers seem parse query strings without quotes around the attributes. This has not always been the case, because of the "?" and "&" characters, which older browsers did not understand unless they were escaped in some fashion.
I ran some test pages and although the links without quotes around the attributes worked, they failed the W3C validator (I know, they're picky at W3C).
Here are some interesting links on the subject (yes, I "quoted" the attributes):
http://www.cs.tut.fi/~jkorpela/qattr.html
http://www.w3.org/TR/html4/intro/sgmltut.html#attributes
http://www.htmlhelp.com/faq/html/basics.html#quotes
http://www.cs.tut.fi/~jkorpela/HTML3.2/3.4.html