How do I prevent WordPress from breaking links?

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  markwiddicombe · Member · Feb 3, 2012 at 6:14 am

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  Good day,

  WordPress breaks links to external sites. If, for example I have a link:

  this points to blah blah

  then it breaks the link at the space:

  <a
  href=”http://www.blah/blah/blahdeblahblah.pdf>this points to blah blah

  which means the link doesn’t work.

  How do I stop it doing this?

  Regards,
  Mark
  Blog url: http://markwiddicombe.wordpress.com/

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  staff-blorbo · Staff · Feb 4, 2012 at 9:32 pm

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  I’m not sure what you mean. Can you please link us to a post or page with the problem?

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  markwiddicombe · Member · Feb 6, 2012 at 5:27 am

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  There is a space between the ‘a’ and the ‘href’ in the URL. WordPress thinks that that is the end of a word and inserts a line break there, which breaks the link. How do I tell WordPress not to place a line break there?

  http://markwiddicombe.wordpress.com/2012/02/02/great-green-con/#comments

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  staff-blorbo · Staff · Feb 6, 2012 at 7:54 am

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  All of the links seem to be fine there.

  If you’re entering the HTML, make sure that you’re typing it in the HTML editor tab, not the Visual Tab.

  Otherwise, make sure that you’re following this guide to create links: http://en.support.wordpress.com/links/