Adding banners in posts not working

[Holis]

HTML is enabled, I add the following code

<a href="http://www.CaribbeanSunPoker.com/ind...7022&PID=10411">
<img src="<A href="http://www.focalclick.com/cgi-bin/focalimage.exe?227022&10411"></a">http://www.focalclick.com/cgi-bin/focalimage.exe?227022&10411"></a>

and the banner does not show.

After adding the code the post shows this :

http://www.CaribbeanSunPoker.com/ind...7022&PID=10411">
>


Whats odd is this does not always happen, i have other forums above this one with similar htlm banner code and they work fine.

Why does it underline the links when i cut and paste from my old forum ?

I also get the same when i try to add this code :

<a href="http://banner.cdpoker.com/cgi-bin/redir.cgi?holis">
<img src="<A href="http://freerolls.drawdead.com/img/dd468x60.gif"></a">http://freerolls.drawdead.com/img/dd468x60.gif"></a>

when i save the post this is what shows

http://banner.cdpoker.com/cgi-bin/redir.cgi?holis">
>

This is the last hurdle till i go live with the conversion, please assist.

Im going nuts !

[Holis]

ahh the code changed here too, the code is valid html and vb is changing it, how can i get this fixed ?

[Holis]

Ok this is really odd, maybe its a forum setting.

The banner in this forum works fine :

http://www.freerollerz.com/forum/showthread.php?t=9033

When i copy that banner code and try to appy it to this forum it doesnt work:

http://www.freerollerz.com/forum/showthread.php?t=6540

I also tried to make a new post in this forum and its not working.

[Scott MacVicar]

I really really really recommend you disable HTML posting, its only intended for internal sites where you have complete control over what is being posted. You can achieve what you ask via bbcode.

[url="http://www.32redpoker.com/?BTag=32RedPBanAff4131"][img]http://www.32red.com/banners/images/08_05_Poker1_468x60.gif[/img][/url]

The reason its messing up is that auto parse URL's is enabled so you end up with double nesting.

[Holis]

Wow ok i didnt know i could do it with bb code.

Let me go try!

Thanks for the quick response.

[Holis]

issue resolved, thanks!