# Sharing link can be edited

**URL:** https://meta.discourse.org/t/sharing-link-can-be-edited/44492
**Category:** Bug
**Created:** [May 19, 2016, 11:45am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/sharing-link-can-be-edited/44492 "2016-05-19T11:45:51Z")
**Posts on this page:** 3
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### Author: ![fefrei](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/fefrei/32/119538_2.png) [@fefrei](https://meta.discourse.org/u/fefrei)
#### Post date: [May 19, 2016, 11:45am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/sharing-link-can-be-edited/44492/1 "2016-05-19T11:45:51Z")

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Earlier, the link in the sharing menu was pure text and could not be edited. Now, this has turned into a text field…

 ![](https://global.discourse-cdn.com/meta/original/3X/c/d/cd286c5d43d346f2ca3bc7fd4145d8686097dc4f.png)

…which can be edited:

 ![](https://global.discourse-cdn.com/meta/original/3X/e/4/e4877258c0f43f771f3950948b19829300482ef0.png)

I think this field is missing a `readonly` flag.

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### Author: ![codinghorror](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/codinghorror/32/110067_2.png) [@codinghorror](https://meta.discourse.org/u/codinghorror)
#### Post date: [May 19, 2016, 12:25pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/sharing-link-can-be-edited/44492/2 "2016-05-19T12:25:57Z")

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See previous discussion on this, read only has very bad behaviors in some browsers most notably mobile safari. Unwanted.

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### Author: ![codinghorror](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/codinghorror/32/110067_2.png) [@codinghorror](https://meta.discourse.org/u/codinghorror)
#### Post date: [May 19, 2016, 12:26pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/sharing-link-can-be-edited/44492/3 "2016-05-19T12:26:01Z")

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