a tags adding url in parentheses - how to remove?

[eluser]John_Betong[/eluser]
 
Have you loaded the helper? $this->load->helper('url'); ?
 
Also view the source code in your browser.
 
This is what the HTML source looks like in my browser:

Code:

...hello this is <a href="http://www.mysite.com/">My site</a> Thank you for..