### Author:  [@renato](https://meta.discourse.org/u/renato)
#### Post date: [November 25, 2020, 3:10am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/strange-behavior-when-an-excerpt-has-links-due-to-topic-list-preview-plugin/171241/1 "2020-11-25T03:10:30Z")
I’ve been noticing a strange behavior when an excerpt has links, be it to a `#tag`, an attachment, anything at all.
It can be seen on the first topic here: [https://forum.comparajogos.com.br/tag/gloomhaven](https://forum.comparajogos.com.br/tag/gloomhaven)
The `excerpt` field is as follows (links redacted as `...`):
`Quer ganhar um Gloomhaven ` must be related to this change:
[https://github.com/discourse/discourse/commit/84e2915e71ed576560f83d21fc055bb7c8bdb007](https://github.com/discourse/discourse/commit/84e2915e71ed576560f83d21fc055bb7c8bdb007)
This causes the rest of the excerpt to be styled as part of the parent element (not `.topic-excerpt`).
In my linked example the `list/topic-excerpt` template is being used by the Topic List Previews plugin, but the same happens on pinned topics.
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### Author:  [@awesomerobot](https://meta.discourse.org/u/awesomerobot)
#### Post date: [November 25, 2020, 4:06am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/strange-behavior-when-an-excerpt-has-links-due-to-topic-list-preview-plugin/171241/2 "2020-11-25T04:06:30Z")
It’s true that links shouldn’t be nested… but I think this is a specific issue with the Topic List Previews plugin? By default we strip links from excerpts, so they wouldn’t nest.
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### Author:  [@renato](https://meta.discourse.org/u/renato)
#### Post date: [November 25, 2020, 4:15am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/strange-behavior-when-an-excerpt-has-links-due-to-topic-list-preview-plugin/171241/3 "2020-11-25T04:15:05Z")
I don’t know, what I noticed is that the `excerpt` field from the JSON payload doesn’t have links stripped out.
Plus, the Topic List Previews plugin author, @merefield, also had some issues with excerpts with links recently: [Excerpts are being poisoned by onebox URL's on Post Rebuild](https://meta.discourse.org/t/excerpts-are-being-poisoned-by-onebox-urls-on-post-rebuild/166372)
**EDIT** : You’re right @awesomerobot, this is a specific issue with the Topic List Previews. I just disabled it on my instance and the issue is gone, it looks like TLP is overriding the default `excerpt` serializer because now that I’ve disabled it, all links are stripped out from the JSON payload. I guess this is happening [here](https://github.com/paviliondev/discourse-topic-previews/blob/6ece3527294734b85947e74afad8e03387f1d982/serializers/topic_list_item_edits_mixin.rb#L4), but I’m not sure.
This is not a Discourse bug, sorry for the confusion. Should I delete the original post, leave it here for posterity, what do you suggest?
Thanks.
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### Author:  [@Falco](https://meta.discourse.org/u/Falco)
#### Post date: [November 25, 2020, 9:41pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/strange-behavior-when-an-excerpt-has-links-due-to-topic-list-preview-plugin/171241/4 "2020-11-25T21:41:17Z")