Cannot put a Hyperlink in Sharepoint Text box

We have SBS2003, fully patched. There is an aomaly in the Sharepoint text
fields as follows:

We want to add an announcement with an embedded Hyperlink such as <a
href="www.microsoft.com>Click here</a>

HTML is turned on in the announcements Text body box

My users want to see (for example) the text "Great Information Site" as a
hyperlink text, and go to "www.somesite.com" when it is clicked, which is
what you should get with <A href="www.somesite.com">Great Information Site</A>
But if you embed the HTML code, IE or WSS does not parse it correctly so
it displays as

<A href="www.somesite.com">Great Information Site</A> and worse, it
parses the hyperlink as

"www.somesite.com">Great

and tries to browse to the url "http://www.somesite.com%22%3Egreat/"if you
click it which of course fails.

ALso, we did a few tests using IE / Firefox / Netscape, and the Text Box is
clearly being parsed / edited and 'massaged' when it is stored / retrieved
from the Sharepoint db, but
the treatment is different for IE than FF or NS.

The Formatting toolbar does not have a hyperlink button
Interestingly, if you use Firefox or Netscape, and therefore just enter HTML
formatting codes raw, it does interpret the <A> link correctly.

I have added a hyperlink field as a temporary workaround, but the authors
would greatly prefer to have (potentially multiple) link(s) embedded within
the text body

Any suggestions??

Ian
Thu Jun 15 20:42:49 CDT 2006

Hi,
You have to open the site in FrontPage 2003, select the list and right click
on it, select properties and in one of the tabs you will see the option to
enable hyperlinks in the text field. This will enable the hyperlink button
in the web page edit field.

Regards,
Ian
http://www.wssdemo.com

"Mike Wolfe" <MikeWolfe@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
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>
> We have SBS2003, fully patched. There is an aomaly in the Sharepoint text
> fields as follows:
>
> We want to add an announcement with an embedded Hyperlink such as <a
> href="www.microsoft.com>Click here</a>
>
> HTML is turned on in the announcements Text body box
>
> My users want to see (for example) the text "Great Information Site" as a
> hyperlink text, and go to "www.somesite.com" when it is clicked, which is
> what you should get with <A href="www.somesite.com">Great Information
> Site</A>
> But if you embed the HTML code, IE or WSS does not parse it correctly so
> it displays as
>
> <A href="www.somesite.com">Great Information Site</A> and worse, it
> parses the hyperlink as
>
> "www.somesite.com">Great
>
> and tries to browse to the url "http://www.somesite.com%22%3Egreat/"if you
> click it which of course fails.
>
> ALso, we did a few tests using IE / Firefox / Netscape, and the Text Box
> is
> clearly being parsed / edited and 'massaged' when it is stored / retrieved
> from the Sharepoint db, but
> the treatment is different for IE than FF or NS.
>
> The Formatting toolbar does not have a hyperlink button
> Interestingly, if you use Firefox or Netscape, and therefore just enter
> HTML
> formatting codes raw, it does interpret the <A> link correctly.
>
> I have added a hyperlink field as a temporary workaround, but the authors
> would greatly prefer to have (potentially multiple) link(s) embedded
> within
> the text body
>
> Any suggestions??
>