# Links in parentheses are not hyperlinked
**URL:** https://meta.discourse.org/t/links-in-parentheses-are-not-hyperlinked/24121
**Category:** Bug
**Tags:** markdown-it-review
**Created:** [January 17, 2015, 5:26am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/links-in-parentheses-are-not-hyperlinked/24121 "2015-01-17T05:26:35Z")
**Posts on this page:** 11
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### Author:  [@strager](https://meta.discourse.org/u/strager)
#### Post date: [January 17, 2015, 5:26am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/links-in-parentheses-are-not-hyperlinked/24121/1 "2015-01-17T05:26:35Z")
Continuing the discussion from [Dealing with unwanted (and probably spam) accounts from other countries?](https://meta.discourse.org/t/dealing-with-unwanted-and-probably-spam-accounts-from-other-countries/24050/28):
> [@Dealing with unwanted (and probably spam) accounts via SSO?](https://meta.discourse.org/t/dealing-with-unwanted-and-probably-spam-accounts-via-sso/24050/28):
>
> Since you are SSOing (is that a word?) through WP, you might want to add a Captcha to your login. It is really effective against that kind of automated bot. I’d try the new one by Google **([https://www.google.com/recaptcha/intro/index.html](https://www.google.com/recaptcha/intro/index.html))** first as it only requires a code if it thinks you may be a bot.
I noticed when typing the comment above that links in parentheses are not hyperlinked.
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### Author:  [@codinghorror](https://meta.discourse.org/u/codinghorror)
#### Post date: [January 17, 2015, 8:45am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/links-in-parentheses-are-not-hyperlinked/24121/2 "2015-01-17T08:45:05Z")
Let’s see
> **[Example Domain](http://www.example.com)**
And ([http://www.example.com](http://www.example.com)) so yep, you’re right.
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### Author:  [@sam](https://meta.discourse.org/u/sam)
#### Post date: [January 27, 2015, 12:22am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/links-in-parentheses-are-not-hyperlinked/24121/3 "2015-01-27T00:22:03Z")
The autolink regex is nasty, and broken in quite a few cases
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### Author:  [@codinghorror](https://meta.discourse.org/u/codinghorror)
#### Post date: [January 27, 2015, 12:23am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/links-in-parentheses-are-not-hyperlinked/24121/4 "2015-01-27T00:23:09Z")
Can you post a link to the exact line of code here and I will look at it?
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### Author:  [@sam](https://meta.discourse.org/u/sam)
#### Post date: [January 27, 2015, 12:29am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/links-in-parentheses-are-not-hyperlinked/24121/5 "2015-01-27T00:29:00Z")
[https://github.com/discourse/discourse/blob/master/app/assets/javascripts/discourse/dialects/autolink\_dialect.js](https://github.com/discourse/discourse/blob/master/app/assets/javascripts/discourse/dialects/autolink_dialect.js)
It needs to deal with diff rules for domain part vs path part vs query string
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### Author:  [@riking](https://meta.discourse.org/u/riking)
#### Post date: [January 27, 2015, 1:22am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/links-in-parentheses-are-not-hyperlinked/24121/6 "2015-01-27T01:22:03Z")
> [@sam](#):
>
> // If we improperly caught a markdown link abort
> if (url.match(/\(http/)) { return; }
I think this is part of the problem.
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### Author:  [@sam](https://meta.discourse.org/u/sam)
#### Post date: [January 27, 2015, 1:27am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/links-in-parentheses-are-not-hyperlinked/24121/7 "2015-01-27T01:27:40Z")
> [@sam](#):
>
> spaceOrTagBoundary
is another part of the problem.
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### Author:  [@mcwumbly](https://meta.discourse.org/u/mcwumbly)
#### Post date: [September 1, 2016, 1:43pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/links-in-parentheses-are-not-hyperlinked/24121/8 "2016-09-01T13:43:06Z")
Just ran into this… It seems relatively common behavior on our site right now for people to parenthetically include links.
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### Author:  [@jomaxro](https://meta.discourse.org/u/jomaxro)
#### Post date: [September 2, 2016, 3:46am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/links-in-parentheses-are-not-hyperlinked/24121/9 "2016-09-02T03:46:08Z")
Ran into this as well today. Easy enough to surround the link with `<>` but annoying nonetheless.
Examples:
Doesn’t work:
`(http://www.example.com)`
([http://www.example.com](http://www.example.com))
Works:
`()`
([http://www.example.com](http://www.example.com))
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### Author:  [@mcwumbly](https://meta.discourse.org/u/mcwumbly)
#### Post date: [October 30, 2016, 12:33am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/links-in-parentheses-are-not-hyperlinked/24121/10 "2016-10-30T00:33:47Z")
[https://github.com/discourse/discourse/pull/4523](https://github.com/discourse/discourse/pull/4523)
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### Author:  [@zogstrip](https://meta.discourse.org/u/zogstrip)
#### Post date: [October 30, 2016, 9:32am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/links-in-parentheses-are-not-hyperlinked/24121/11 "2016-10-30T09:32:10Z")