Forum:Non-link words being accidentally merged into nearby links (in visual mode)

Hi.

On the Nitrome Wiki, there has been a noticeable problem with visual mode. When in visual mode, if you edit a page, sometimes non-link words will be pushed into links, at no fault of the user.

Apparently, this problem only happens to ones who use visual mode, as I haven't used visual mode all my life (been on Wikia since there was no visual mode), and during the time this small problem has been happening, this problem hasn't happened to me.

This problem seems to randomly pick to links on a page, and merge the word(s) in front of it with the link. An example is this edit. If you scroll down to line 117, and the second last green box above line 246, you will see for (line 117) how "caterpillar left" becomes "catterpillarleft". Subsequently, the second green box above line 238 transforms "giant wormby]]swiping their finger" into "giant wormbyswipingtheirfinger" (just so you don't get confused, the ]] in the third example was added to show words that had not been merged in this example were going to be merged in the next example).

I'm not sure whether this is a bug or not, as it has been going on for a few weeks now. One possible solution to this problem is that it has something to do with the Neutronized Wiki (this problem happened there to) and Nitrome Wiki's css or js, as these two wikis use similar css and js.

I just came here to report the problem and ask if there was any js code I could put into the wiki's global (Nitrome Wiki-wide) js to fix the problem.

Thanks! --— NOBODY (talk) 13:40, November 6, 2012 (UTC)


 * Hi,


 * It is always a good idea to edit links in source mode. It is way easier and links should not merge. You can always create links in source mode faster and without as much hassle.
 * Sincerely,
 * Take|comm|and 14:31, November 6, 2012 (UTC)

Simple answer - ensure that there is a space between brackets and the adjacent word. Jackiespeel (talk) 15:40, November 6, 2012 (UTC)
 * Doesn't change the fact that Visual Editor is extremely good at screwing up things.— 15:50, November 6, 2012 (UTC)

I have also noticed this problem infrequently within the last month. Strangely, it appears to happen in the same area of the page each time, once a single page was edited multiple times by a user, with an extra adjacent word merged each time. I've enabled visual mode to see if I can replicate the problem (as well as spot any other visual mode messes) but it doesn't happen to me, so it can't be a wide-spread problem with visual mode by itself, and must be either browser-specific, or an intermittent bug that will be hard to track down. I noticed this again just today, when it happened on a page that had visual mode disabled due to complex code, so I'm still convinced that it is not solely a visual mode bug. -452 17:18, November 25, 2012 (UTC)