Item54: Color tags stop proper rendering of link

Enclosing a Web.TopicName link in color code stops it from being rendered as a link.

For example:

   * Community.CopyrightStatement

becomes:

• CopyrightStatement

and:

   * %GREEN%Community.CopyrightStatement%ENDCOLOR%

becomes:

• Community.CopyrightStatement

-- KoenMartens

I do not see this as an error. It actually works as it should.

A well know and often used way to avoid WikiWord linking is to put something like an html nop in front of the wiki word. And this is what happens with the GREEN and ENDCOLOR tags. They are replaced by html font tags that as they should prevents the wiki word rendering.

If you want the link green and displayed correctly you need a white space between the tags and the wiki word.

   * %GREEN% Community.CopyrightStatement%ENDCOLOR%

becomes

• CopyrightStatement

But as you also can see the CSS for links wins over the font tags so the effect is not visible anyway That is how css works I guess. To get colour changes of links you would need a quite different solution also using css.

So I say No Action on this one

-- KennethLavrsen - 04 Jan 2009