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PostPosted: 02-Dec-2007 11:18    Post subject: How do I make links in posts look nice? Reply to topic Reply with quote

Hi - this will be an embarrassingly simple question which has very little to do with the site per se but is more about me not being very IT-savvy at all.

Thanks to the wonderful buttons on top of the posting window, I can insert URLs into the text. But how do I make these appear behind words. Usually, I'd just enter a URL, highlight it and then press the button. Something like this:

[url]EXAMPLE[/url]

How can I manage to select a word in a sentence and use that as the button that will lead to the destination of the URL? Rather than having the ugly URL stuck somewhere in the message? Something like the following:

You won't believe what I read on this site! - where the underlined "this" would be the link.

Thanks for your patience!
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PostPosted: 02-Dec-2007 12:55    Post subject: How do I make links in posts look nice? Reply to topic Reply with quote

If you want to use BBCode in your post to make a link with normal words, it would look like this:

The coolest site ever!

That will give you a link that reads "The coolest site ever!"
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PostPosted: 02-Dec-2007 14:00    Post subject: How do I make links in posts look nice? Reply to topic Reply with quote

You wish to use this code:

[url=url-of-page]Words you wish to use as link[/url]

So this:

Code:
[url=http://www.mordel.net/barandgrill.php?redirect=index]Mordel's fourm[/url]


Gives you this:

Mordel's forum
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PostPosted: 02-Dec-2007 14:16    Post subject: How do I make links in posts look nice? Reply to topic Reply with quote

I forgot to do the code thing, didn't I? Smile
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PostPosted: 02-Dec-2007 16:23    Post subject: Re: How do I make links in posts look nice? Reply to topic Reply with quote

Mordel wrote:
I forgot to do the code thing, didn't I? Smile


Why yes, yes you did. Laughing
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PostPosted: 02-Dec-2007 18:12    Post subject: Re: How do I make links in posts look nice? Reply to topic Reply with quote

Thanks guys, you're awesome!

But you already knew that.

And you already knew that I knew that.

And you already knew that I've known this for the better part of the last decade.

And you....get my drift!
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PostPosted: 03-Dec-2007 03:07    Post subject: How do I make links in posts look nice? Reply to topic Reply with quote

It's surprising how many people ignore all those fancy buttons just above the text field. And it isn't the problem just on this board...
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PostPosted: 03-Dec-2007 10:57    Post subject: How do I make links in posts look nice? Reply to topic Reply with quote

I ignore them, but that's only because it's quicker for me to type the HTML equivalent directly as I go.
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PostPosted: 03-Dec-2007 12:45    Post subject: How do I make links in posts look nice? Reply to topic Reply with quote

Yeah, when you know what you're doing it's okay. The problem is when you don't know Rolling Eyes
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