silly url linking question

fire.bird · Post by **fire.bird** » Sat Mar 19, 2005 3:35 am

ok, so i really feel like i should be able to figure this one out on my own. but i haven't so far. so:

what's the code for linking urls? not with the actual address, but with a name for it? like, if i wanted to link to Google and use just the word Google, rather than http://www.google.com, for instance?

thanks!

~b

kurdt_kobain · Post by **kurdt_kobain** » Sat Mar 19, 2005 3:55 am

[url=http://url]URL text[/url]

maisie · Post by **maisie** » Sat Mar 19, 2005 3:56 am

for a link like google - www.google.com .... to have that come up as a url you put http://www.google.com only without the two spaces either side.

to have the link just say 'Google' you would need to do this ...
[url=http://www.google.com] and then immediately afterwards type the text you want to appear on the link. and then finish with same closing tag as before.

[ url=http://www.google.com ]Google[ /url ]
(only without the spaces before and after the brackets, that's just to stop it doing it now)

i hope that made sense.

fire.bird · Post by **fire.bird** » Sat Mar 19, 2005 4:21 am

*practice*

can fire.bird make this link to Google yet?

fire.bird · Post by **fire.bird** » Sat Mar 19, 2005 4:22 am

sweet! thanks, y'all!

(i was putting quotes around the url. like [url="http://www.google.com]link me to Google[/url]. )

'preciate it!

~b

Jellybob · Post by **Jellybob** » Sat Mar 19, 2005 5:12 am

(i was putting quotes around the url. like [url="http://www.google.com]link me to Google[/url]. )

Yup, in any sane world that would work, however this is the joys of BBCode

Proximity · Post by **Proximity** » Sat Mar 19, 2005 7:16 am

Jellybob wrote:
(i was putting quotes around the url. like [url="http://www.google.com]link me to Google[/url]. )
Yup, in any sane world that would work, however this is the joys of BBCode

but thanks to the sane world, you can avoid BBCode, and use HTML instead:

<a href="http://www.google.com">click here for google</a>
would just read "click here for google" and be a link to google, if I hadn't checked the box at the bottom of the post that says "disable HTML in this post".

prox.

[why can't I breathe whenever I think about you?]

fire.bird · Post by **fire.bird** » Mon Mar 21, 2005 9:11 pm

aha! thanks!

i knew i should've learned html when i had the chance...

guest11 · Post by **guest11** » Mon Mar 21, 2005 9:24 pm

I learned HTML in Year 8... 4 years ago. I've forgotten it ALL now... instead I have the joys of Visual Basic...

Proximity · Post by **Proximity** » Tue Mar 22, 2005 5:47 am

HTML isn't *too* hard to self-teach, and there are a lot of sites out there that you can look things up on.
It's handy. I taught myself in .. ummm 2001/2002 or something, and then took a few classes in 2003, to fill in gaps in my knowledge .. but really they weren't that helpful, I didn't learn anything I couldn't have looked up on my own.
I picked up CSS to, which is nice with HTML and makes it so that you can actually do things that look pretty good, and I'm sort of teaching myself javascript now, but in a very lazy manner

by which I mean .. I still suck at it

I've got big respect for those who know the more advanced stuff, it looks sort of crazy and really really hard.

prox.

[credit]

fire.bird · Post by **fire.bird** » Wed Apr 13, 2005 4:26 pm

apologies for resurrecting an old thread for a tangent, but i just had to share...

i realized yesterday that if i drag the mouse over the "url" button when i'm replying, a nice little set of instructions explaining the BBcode for linking urls pops up.

*:roll: at self*

~b

mallie · Post by **mallie** » Wed Apr 13, 2005 4:32 pm

We've all had moments like that.

And tis good to resurrect and say these things, it could help someone else realise "ahhhhhh....."

Post by **sine nomine** » Wed Apr 13, 2005 8:37 pm

if you use the mozilla firefox browser, there is an extension that will do the bbcode coding for you. see
viewtopic.php?t=67651

deb

fire.bird · Post by **fire.bird** » Wed Apr 13, 2005 8:47 pm

nifty!

thanks, deb.

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