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Some clever people include links in their postings which appear not with the address of the link but with something like 'HERE' or 'THIS' in blue font. How is this done - it looks so cool!
 
ghostlymoron said:
Some clever people include links in their postings which appear not with the address of the link but with something like 'HERE' or 'THIS' in blue font. How is this done - it looks so cool!
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In the toolbar above the text in the 'reply' window there is a row of icons. In about the centre is a circle (globe?) with a chain link over its lower right corner. Click on it, paste your link into it, click again and you get the same link highlighted (selected) blue. Type your HERE or THIS onto that.
 
vyv_cox said:
In the toolbar above the text in the 'reply' window there is a row of icons. In about the centre is a circle (globe?) with a chain link over its lower right corner. Click on it, paste your link into it, click again and you get the same link highlighted (selected) blue. Type your HERE or THIS onto that.
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Thanks I appreciated that one, not that I will remember..

Now another question, another forum I use has a set of tools that work so you can ignore threads. They work on firefox, you can ignore threads and hide them etc...

Can you get similar for on here? Theres a certain anchor thread I would love to hide :rolleyes:
 
If you dont have the full set of icons and formatting tools ( two rows of them) and the smiley panel on the right you need to go into your user CP and select The "Standard editor" for extra formatting controls in "Miscellaneous options" in the "Edit options" section

The icon Vyv refers to is this one
createlink.gif


As Vyv says part of the link will be high lighted in blue. While it is still blue simply type the words you want to appear.

When you become proficient you can even stick in a clickable image.
 
Or use this format, except replacing the curly brackets with square ones:

{url=your desired url}your text{/url}

Example:

Have you seen {url=http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-16484371}this BBC news story{/url} about motorised shoes.

Have you seen this BBC news story about motorised shoes.

You can do the same with images:

{img}your pic url{/img}

{img}http://i66.photobucket.com/albums/h269/twisterken/th_SCREW.jpg{/img}

th_SCREW.jpg


Sorry if you were expecting a different sort of screw
 
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Thanks Vic and Vyv. I had 'basic' selected and could not see the icons Vyv referred to but now I have changed to 'standard' they have now appeared. Test run now: THIS Looking forward to the summer.
 
Wow! just changed my profile, and at the risk of perpetuating what might turn out to be a tsunami of irrelevant links, I can't stop myself doing this.
Thanks for opening this particular jar of worms guys!

Following our sinking the 4108 is out and I'm getting one of these things Just joking
 
It does look cool but there is a downside, as I found out.
I asked for advice some while ago and a well-intentioned soul posted, "The answer is 'here'".
The trouble is, it wasn't and I'd already checked that site anyway. Unfortunately others viewing thought that I was sorted and went off to do other things.
So the problem is that the link is 'opaque' and others will not know the source. Yep, they could click but probably unlikely.
 
Spuddy said:
It does look cool but there is a downside, as I found out.
I asked for advice some while ago and a well-intentioned soul posted, "The answer is 'here'".
The trouble is, it wasn't and I'd already checked that site anyway. Unfortunately others viewing thought that I was sorted and went off to do other things.
So the problem is that the link is 'opaque' and others will not know the source. Yep, they could click but probably unlikely.
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And of course it is possible to hide something totally unexpected behind the word HERE

If posting a link it is sensible to always check that it works by clicking on it in "preview" >>>> the time you don't will, as sure as eggs is eggs, be the time it does not work.
 
Spuddy said:
It does look cool but there is a downside, as I found out.
I asked for advice some while ago and a well-intentioned soul posted, "The answer is 'here'".
The trouble is, it wasn't and I'd already checked that site anyway. Unfortunately others viewing thought that I was sorted and went off to do other things.
So the problem is that the link is 'opaque' and others will not know the source. Yep, they could click but probably unlikely.
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When following links as you hover the cursor over the link the URL will appear at the bottom left of the browser window. (depends which browser you use)

Try it on this
 
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