Resolved Avoiding inappropriate 'MEDIA' markup (YouTube, for example)

[grahamperrin]

Test:

The markup for that test:

Test:

[URL]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AxR2FH1O83A&lc=z13udfh5fnvkcxdhf04cep1p3m3lspixer40k[/URL]

 

[grahamperrin]

Test 2:

The markup for that test:

Test 2:

[URL=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AxR2FH1O83A&lc=z13udfh5fnvkcxdhf04cep1p3m3lspixer40k]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AxR2FH1O83A&lc=z13udfh5fnvkcxdhf04cep1p3m3lspixer40k[/URL]

 

[grahamperrin]

Test 3:

The markup for that test (note the enclosure of the URL with quotation marks):

Test 3:

[URL="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AxR2FH1O83A&lc=z13udfh5fnvkcxdhf04cep1p3m3lspixer40k"]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AxR2FH1O83A&lc=z13udfh5fnvkcxdhf04cep1p3m3lspixer40k[/URL]

 

[grahamperrin]

Test 4:

anything other than the URL of the media

Success!

The markup:

Test 4:

[URL=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AxR2FH1O83A&lc=z13udfh5fnvkcxdhf04cep1p3m3lspixer40k]anything other than the URL of the media[/URL]

Background

At https://forums.macrumors.com/posts/21505648 I struggled to provide a link

• from MacRumors Forums
• to a comment on YouTube.

The workaround there was ugly.