THANXX again. This is working just M-a-r-v-e-l-o-u-s!

Great Work!!!!
Thanks!!!

I imagine not many people use the HTML "alt" image tag with vBulletin, but I do with my class newsletters, which go back for nine years. Word Links breaks the image if the alt tag one of the auto-linked words. For example, "homework" is automatically linked. If I have an image with "homework" in the alt tag (and I do, every week), here's what I get: X (broken image) homework3.gif" alt="homework"> (homework is a link)

Not a big deal, really. It's really a great product. Thanks!

I know most people don't use alt in their images in vBulletin, but actually this mod should work even if they do. I just checked your site (the one in your profile) and found this example link in one of your posts (by viewing the HTML source)

The problem is that isn't a valid xhtml img element though it works on browsers just fine... the proper tag should look like:

I assume you're using some type of Mod or BB Code to produce those images. If you edit it to put the proper xhtml closing (the "space, followed by the slash, followed by the closing square-bracket) or " />" this mod will recognize it as an xhtml <img> tag and ignore all keywords inside of it be it filename or alt code.

Thanks for the tip! The problem is I've been using that kind of sloppy coding for the past ten or eleven years, but I think I might be able to use the vB replacement variable manager to change them in bulk.

Are you using a BBCode? If so it would be a simple fix and work on all past images as well. If it is a BB Code paste the replacement text into a post and I can update it for you.

I'm using straight HTML in the public forums (nobody else but me and a special kid account can post in public). Many of the tags were put in by my students, who help write the newsletter.

OK gotcha...

I am far, far from an expert, but I'm wondering if this would work:

Take: ">
Replace " />

It might but it may cause other problems with other tags... also I think the replacement variable is run after all other mods so it wouldn't help in this case.

Ideally you'd need some type of search and replace on your database using a regular expression to find your old <img> tags and update them to xhtml <img> tags....

But I wouldn't get involved in something risking your database if things don't go well.

Another solution but not ideal would be a plugin that runs on postbit_display_complete with executon order 1 (so it runs before this mod) to change your html <img> tags to xhtml <img> on the fly. But it would really depend on how consistent your existing tags were entered. Is it always src="" before alt="" for example? if they were inconsistent this wouldn't work.