website input doesn't work without http://

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  • Plugin Author donmik

    (@atallos)

    12 years, 2 months ago

    It’s the way it works… If you select “Website” in Field’s type, you are using an HTML5 input with url type. This input requires a valid website url and this require “http://”.

    If you don’t want to require http://, you have to use a “Text box”.

    Thread Starter tgrrr

    (@tgrrr)

    12 years, 2 months ago

    If I use a text box, then the URL wont link to another site.

    I understand that it’s the way you’ve built it, but it causes problems with other ways of typing in websites. From a user’s perspective: It would be better if it was missing the ‘http://’ to add it, rather than display an error message.

    Plugin Author donmik

    (@atallos)

    12 years, 2 months ago

    Hi,

    You can use a filter to create the url if you want.

    You don’t understand. I have not built it. The website html5 input is a web standard from W3C. It’s impossible to change… It’s how the field type “url” works… The “http://” is required for this type of field.

    Thread Starter tgrrr

    (@tgrrr)

    12 years, 2 months ago

    Hi Donmik,

    Thanks for that, wasn’t aware of that standard particular standard.

    Do you mean build a filter to automatically add the http://, or turn the text into a link?

    Plugin Author donmik

    (@atallos)

    12 years, 1 month ago

    In the faq, I explain how to create filter to change the way the value of fields are displayed.

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