How to embed a Web link in your text

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How to embed a Web link in your text

Postby Wayne Harrison » Dec 17, 2005 9:47 am

Posting a link?

Want something more than just copying a URL from your browser window and pasting it in the forum, which automatically becomes hotlinked? (don't put an end-of-sentence period next to it, or it will think that's part of the URL)

http://www.caves.org/phpBB2 takes you to the forum

http://www.caves.org/phpBB2. takes you to an error page

Try embedding the URL in some text that explains the link better by doing it this way:

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[url=http://www.someurlhere.com]Text You Want To Hotlink[/url]


Which gives you:

Text You Want To Hotlink

OR

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<a href="http://www.caves.org/phpBB2/">Click Here to visit the forum.</a>


Which gives you:

<a href="http://www.caves.org/phpBB2/">Click Here to visit the forum.</a>

Just remember, a

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<a href="URL GOES HERE">


on the left side of the descriptive text and a closing

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</a>


on the right side of the text. This code is not specific to the forum and is standard HTML that can be used on other Web pages.

And how do you show actual code and not what the code wants you to see?

Write the code, highlight the entire code and click the "Code" button above the text box. This tells BBCode not to process the code. It also puts it in a highlighted code section, as it did above.
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Postby Wayne Harrison » Mar 9, 2006 6:30 pm

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