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I discovered a problem while typing a bullet list in the wiki. The bullet items were links and I wanted to add some plain text after one of the link items after I had typed several of them, but the wiki insisted on dropping the text to the next line and including it as part of the link. These screen caps explain it best:

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Is there a way I can turn off link formatting after I position the cursor at the end of the first link bullet item so that I can just type some plain text?

Edit: This takes a certain sequence of events to reproduce:

  • Insert a link as the first item in a bullets list and immediately hit Enter.
  • Now put the cursor back on the end of that link, start typing some text, and you'll see the behavior I described.

If you insert the link and then start typing text, that text will just be plain text. It won't be included as part of the link (the expected behavior). So, it's the act of hitting Enter immediately after inserting a link, then going back to add some text after that link, that causes the problem.

Fog Creek Case FC1874575

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This is a bug. It has been fixed and will be included in an upcoming release.

The workaround is: You can correct this problem by right-clicking the link, copying the link address, clicking remove link, then selecting just the text you want and re-adding the link.

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I edited my question to clarify how I did this. I am using Firefox 3.6.3 on Windows 7 Ultimate x64. I am explicitly inserting the link via the Insert->Link... menu item. FogBugz doesn't automatically create a link when I type the URL. Is it supposed to? – Greg Saven Apr 16 2010 at 20:07
oops, yeah it shouldn't auto-link :P when you say you're hitting enter, are you holding down shift? hitting enter should make a new bullet point. shift-enter will continue the current bullet on a new line as you are seeing. – adambox Apr 16 2010 at 21:42

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