Can someone tell me if the following is the solution to linking through to a particular thread? I have long wanted to know how to do it, just googled it and come across some instruction on YouTube, unfortunately too small to see properly, but by following what he says and doing it step by step, I think I now know (except that it first didn't work but by practically sticking my eye on the screen I think I caught him out saying "backslash" once instead of "forward slash":
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hPGQoZbI ... re=related
Question: is there an easier way?
Here is the link I typed in to a place on laymyhat that seemed to work:
What I did was:
open square bracket=viewtopic.php?t=39close square bracket space here space another square bracket forward slash url close bracket
This is what it produced (fingers crossed!)
here
Making text hyperlink in forum posts
Making text hyperlink in forum posts
Yes, Greenbarn!
Now, however, in the process of composing a message, I tried clicking on BBCode, bottom left, and came up with explanations that I'd never seen before. Having done all that Googling, I now recognised that same url business under "Linking to another site", so the penny drops!
By the way, all this is for the benefit of other duffers like me!
Now, however, in the process of composing a message, I tried clicking on BBCode, bottom left, and came up with explanations that I'd never seen before. Having done all that Googling, I now recognised that same url business under "Linking to another site", so the penny drops!
By the way, all this is for the benefit of other duffers like me!
Re: Making text hyperlink in forum posts
You don't want to click on bbcode, this is how you do it...Wonkeye wrote: Now, however, in the process of composing a message, I tried clicking on BBCode, bottom left, and came up with explanations that I'd never seen before.
When you are writing a post, type or paste the url you want to link to, for example:
www.laymyhat.com
Now highlight all of the url and click on the URL button above the message you are typing. This will happen:
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[url]www.laymyhat.com[/url]
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[url=www.laymyhat.com][/url]
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[url=www.laymyhat.com]Lay My Hat[/url]
Lay My Hat
Paolo
Lay My Hat
Lay My Hat
Making text hyperlink in forum posts
That comes of trying to do things outside one's field of expertise. At least I can look it up here in future and do it step by step! Thanks Paolo.
If you just want to make the url clickable, you only need to write it like this - http://www.vins-strategies.com - and most browsers will automatically detect it as a link.
Peter
Peter
Making text hyperlink in forum posts
Yes, but what I hadn't up to now got my head round was how to link someone through to a particular page on LMH, so I guess that Paolo's answer is what I was looking for.