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CTSLICK
07-29-2003, 11:32 PM
Well DUH, I just can't figure out how to use the URL feature to convert a long URL into a clickable word when posting. :oops:

Can someone please explain how to do this?

Thanks

Jacob
07-29-2003, 11:35 PM
The URL button just inserts the [ url ] (spaces included to make sure it's not interpreted as a real url tag), but you'd have to put the URL inside the square brackets. The pattern is as such (spaces have been inserted so the url tags aren't interpreted):

[ url = <INSERT URL HERE>]&lt;Text you want the link to say>[ / url ]

I hope that's somewhat clear.

CTSLICK
07-29-2003, 11:40 PM
testing URL for this thread

find it here (http://www.pocketpcthoughts.com/forums/viewtopic.php?t=15806)

CTSLICK
07-29-2003, 11:42 PM
Hey I get it now...thanks for the help. I was also missing the help text that appears when you hover over the URL button. Thanks again. 8)

Pony99CA
07-30-2003, 05:29 AM
[ url = <INSERT URL HERE>]&lt;Text you want the link to say>[ / url ]
The best way to show BBCode or HTML is to use the CODE tags. For example, showing the use of the URL tags would be done like this:


[url=http://www.svpocketpc.com]My Web site[/url]

which looks like this in posts:

My Web site (http://www.svpocketpc.com)

To find out more about BBCode, click the BBCode (http://www.pocketpcthoughts.com/forums/faq.php?mode=bbcode) link under the Options section when posting.

Steve

Pat Logsdon
07-30-2003, 05:34 AM
I've apparently been doing it the hard way:
&lt;a href="http://www.pocketpcthoughts.com" target="_blank">linked text here&lt;/a>
:roll:

droppedd
07-30-2003, 05:45 AM
it makes me nuts that different BBs use different bracket tags - Anandtech, for example, uses [L=text]http://url.url[/L] instead of PPCThoughts' more sensible [url=http://url.url]Text[/url]
I don't get the Anandtech form - the link name goes after the = inside the tag, and the URL goes between the tags. Why anyone would choose to create their own tags over standard BBCode is beyond me, but furthermore it's counterintuitive for HTMLers to put the display text in the tag and the undisplayed link URL in between them.

Of course they don't allow any html at all there - so you can't even use Surgical Snack's roundabout but easy-to-remember (if you know HTML) solution there - only their custom tags :roll: