# Links to tags not working in final post unless autocompleted
**URL:** https://meta.discourse.org/t/links-to-tags-not-working-in-final-post-unless-autocompleted/69884
**Category:** Bug
**Created:** [12.Сентябрь.2017 10:54:46 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/links-to-tags-not-working-in-final-post-unless-autocompleted/69884 "2017-09-12T10:54:46Z")
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### Author:  [@robmc](https://meta.discourse.org/u/robmc)
#### Post date: [12.Сентябрь.2017 10:54:47 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/links-to-tags-not-working-in-final-post-unless-autocompleted/69884/1 "2017-09-12T10:54:47Z")
If you add a # and select a relevant tag, the word is automatically converted to a link for the relevant tag in the Preview Pane, but this link is not appearing in the final ‘baked’ post in the forum
See here - code entered, preview pane shows bolded, working link - but not appearing in the actual topic posted (above)
(running 1.8.0 with [Communiteq](https://www.communiteq.com) (formerly DiscourseHosting))
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### Author:  [@codinghorror](https://meta.discourse.org/u/codinghorror)
#### Post date: [12.Сентябрь.2017 23:20:44 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/links-to-tags-not-working-in-final-post-unless-autocompleted/69884/2 "2017-09-12T23:20:44Z")
Can you repro this here or on [try.discourse.org](http://try.discourse.org) ? If it is a bug in 1.8 it won’t be fixed, because it is not security related.
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### Author:  [@jomaxro](https://meta.discourse.org/u/jomaxro)
#### Post date: [13.Сентябрь.2017 00:08:52 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/links-to-tags-not-working-in-final-post-unless-autocompleted/69884/3 "2017-09-13T00:08:52Z")
This does appear to be a valid bug. To link to a tag you need `::tag` at the end to avoid a namespace collision with categories. So linking to #pr-welcome is `#pr-welcome::tag`.
With that in mind, linking to #pr-welcome (`#pr-welcome`) works in preview but not once submitted.
I’ll note that using autocomplete when typing a tag adds `::tag` automatically. This is only an issue when typing the tag “manually”.
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### Author:  [@codinghorror](https://meta.discourse.org/u/codinghorror)
#### Post date: [13.Сентябрь.2017 00:11:13 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/links-to-tags-not-working-in-final-post-unless-autocompleted/69884/4 "2017-09-13T00:11:13Z")
Э.. что?
#pr-welcome — это нормальный тег. Так же, как и #pr-welcome.
Добавление #Community Building > Praise из автозаполнения.
А, понял, это серьёзный регресс. Кто-нибудь должен это проверить!
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### Author:  [@jomaxro](https://meta.discourse.org/u/jomaxro)
#### Post date: [13.Сентябрь.2017 00:13:55 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/links-to-tags-not-working-in-final-post-unless-autocompleted/69884/5 "2017-09-13T00:13:55Z")
> [@codinghorror](#):
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> Добавляю #Community Building > Praise из автодополнения.
Praise — это категория, у неё нет «суффикса». Символы `::tag` нужно добавлять только к тегам.
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### Author:  [@codinghorror](https://meta.discourse.org/u/codinghorror)
#### Post date: [13.Сентябрь.2017 00:15:34 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/links-to-tags-not-working-in-final-post-unless-autocompleted/69884/6 "2017-09-13T00:15:34Z")
Oh right my bad #faq-material::tag entered from autocomplete, and #faq-material typed.
@tgxworld I really do not agree with this design. Like users and groups, tags and categories should share the same namespace.. the `#blah:tag` pattern should only be required for disambiguation.
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### Author:  [@robmc](https://meta.discourse.org/u/robmc)
#### Post date: [13.Сентябрь.2017 08:14:26 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/links-to-tags-not-working-in-final-post-unless-autocompleted/69884/10 "2017-09-13T08:14:26Z")
Thanks both - sorry, time differences make timely conversations awkward.
I was not aware of the requirement for the `::tag` - is this new?
It does work for autocomplete, but I had written these manually as tags were bottom of the original automcomplete list and it was just as easy to type. Now I know the correct process, I can change to use autocomplete more, but as I say, I was not aware of this before
thanks for looking into it
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### Author:  [@jomaxro](https://meta.discourse.org/u/jomaxro)
#### Post date: [13.Сентябрь.2017 17:00:01 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/links-to-tags-not-working-in-final-post-unless-autocompleted/69884/11 "2017-09-13T17:00:01Z")
> [@robmc](#):
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> I was not aware of the requirement for the ::tag - is this new?
No - it’s been required since tags became mentionable in early 2016.
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### Author:  [@mcwumbly](https://meta.discourse.org/u/mcwumbly)
#### Post date: [13.Сентябрь.2017 22:39:29 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/links-to-tags-not-working-in-final-post-unless-autocompleted/69884/12 "2017-09-13T22:39:29Z")
> [@codinghorror](#):
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> the `#blah:tag` pattern should only be required for disambiguation.
Would love to see this change!
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### Author:  [@tgxworld](https://meta.discourse.org/u/tgxworld)
#### Post date: [03.Октябрь.2017 06:37:07 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/links-to-tags-not-working-in-final-post-unless-autocompleted/69884/13 "2017-10-03T06:37:07Z")
Fixed in
[https://github.com/discourse/discourse/commit/3e53dbcade3c645e3cbd77610e4a5792a2c1a02e](https://github.com/discourse/discourse/commit/3e53dbcade3c645e3cbd77610e4a5792a2c1a02e)
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### Author:  [@tgxworld](https://meta.discourse.org/u/tgxworld)
#### Post date: [04.Октябрь.2017 10:00:29 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/links-to-tags-not-working-in-final-post-unless-autocompleted/69884/14 "2017-10-04T10:00:29Z")
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