Inserting a link

[hefyd]

Could anyone out there run through the way in which they insert links into their posts ? Is this simply a matter of cutting and pasting ? Why are the links I post sometimes 'live' [ie if you click on them you go straight to the required site] and sometimes not [ie you have to cut and paste them to your search engine] ? And what is the difference between a link and a 'URL' ? hefyd

[Starlite]

While I am no expert, I have learned a few things. One is that if you just copy and paste a url in here, it would be live UNLESS you have added something ie made it bold or put a period at the end of it.

eg:

http://librivox.org/wiki/moin.cgi/

Thats works but if its made bold, it doesn't.

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[b]http://librivox.org/wiki/moin.cgi/[/b]

http://librivox.org/wiki/moin.cgi/

Now to add words as a clickable link you do it thus:

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[url=http://librivox.org/wiki/moin.cgi/]Librivox Wiki[/url]

Librivox Wiki

You can make the interior words bold thus:

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[url=http://librivox.org/wiki/moin.cgi/][b]Librivox Wiki[/b][/url]

Librivox Wiki



Hope that helps.

[thistlechick]

Starlite, excellent tutorial there!

I personally prefer to make my links underlined (oddly as soon as we turn text into a link it no longer looks like a link) and do it similar to how Starlite shows making it bold... replace the "b" in the tags with the letter "u" and you get underlining =)

This code:

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[url=http://librivox.org/wiki/moin.cgi/][u]Librivox Wiki[/u][/url]

Produces this: Librivox Wiki