Resolving an href reference in a journal post

[gcwarbler]

Re: https://www.inaturalist.org/projects/moths-of-greater-austin-tx/journal/98380-short-term-scale-wear-on-a-moth

In the above journal entry, I attempted to point to a couple of individual observations (the “here and here” links in the first paragraph) by using an “a href” format to point to the observations. I must be formatting these wrong. They are being resolved by adding the full project journal URL in front of my observation URL, thus:
https://www.inaturalist.org/projects/moths-of-greater-austin-tx/journal/“https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/238500859”
which, of course, does not exist.

What am I doing wrong? Are the URL resolution rules different in a project journal from a personal journal entry?

[pisum]

you have some junk before and after your link URL. get rid of the junk, and all should be fine.

[gcwarbler]

Sorry, @pisum, but I’m not sure what you are refering to as “junk”. The longer URL above, with its double https reference is from the resolution of my simpler “a href” format, not something I included. The entire "www.inaturalist.org/projects/moths-of-greater-austin-tx/journal/" has been added in that resolution. Let me see if I can type the text of my entry here verbatim as I wrote it. I’m adding backslashes to override the code.

<a href="https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/238500859”>here</a>.

Is this properly formatted?

[alfamax]

You’ve got this:

<a href="%E2%80%9Chttps://www.inaturalist.org/observations/238500859%E2%80%9D" rel="nofollow noopener">here</a>

It should look like this:

<a href="https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/238500859" rel="nofollow">here</a>.

[pisum]

there’s some extra stuff. it may or may not be obvious, depending on how your browser displays certain characters. i would just delete everything in the href attribute from and including the double quotes, and then add it anew.

make sure when you’re adding double quotes that you’re using plain double quotes "" and not fancy double quotes like “”.

[gcwarbler]

Hmmm. I was composing the article with Text Edit on a new MacBook Pro, thinking it was in plain text. It is apparently inserting smart quotes. I’ll have to fiddle with those settings and try again. Gnash…

[gcwarbler]

I think I finally figure out the issue and it had something to do with Text Edit resolving my URLs prematurely as formatting, overriding my desire for plain text. I still haven’t figure out how to tame Text Edit, but I think I fixed it for the above journal post.

Thanks for the help, all.