Question about adding links inside posts.
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GATE-keeper,
Posted on: 2009-08-20 16:57 in Player Questions
All you have to do is highlight the word that you want to make into a link and click 
. It's pretty easy.
It's a bit less than intuitive. I normally start off by using cut-and-paste for the URL so I don't make any mistakes. I click the button to insert a link (I'm set to the 'standard' edit screen) and paste the URL.
After I hit okay, the editor inserts the link to that site with the link text ALSO being the URL I just pasted. So, I delete the 'inner' copy of the URL and type whatever I want.
So, the editor inserts this: (the square brackets replaced by parentheses to 'un URL' it)
(URL="http://wiki.cohtitan.com/wiki/Main_Page")http://wiki.cohtitan.com/wiki/Main_Page(/URL)
And I edit it to this:
(URL="http://wiki.cohtitan.com/wiki/Main_Page")Linky(/URL)
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Ah, OK thanks!
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Originally Posted by Nurvus
All you have to do is highlight the word that you want to make into a link and click
. It's pretty easy. |
"Everybody wants to change the world, but nobody wants to change themselves." -Tolstoy
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What do you know - I didn't know it could do that. |
Originally Posted by Nurvus
All you have to do is highlight the word that you want to make into a link and click
. It's pretty easy. |
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You can use the [noparse] command to display your code so you don't have to use "replace this" instruction or [[img][/img]url] tricks.|
Originally Posted by Ironblade
It's a bit less than intuitive. I normally start off by using cut-and-paste for the URL so I don't make any mistakes. I click the button to insert a link (I'm set to the 'standard' edit screen) and paste the URL.
After I hit okay, the editor inserts the link to that site with the link text ALSO being the URL I just pasted. So, I delete the 'inner' copy of the URL and type whatever I want. So, the editor inserts this: (the square brackets replaced by parentheses to 'un URL' it) (URL="http://wiki.cohtitan.com/wiki/Main_Page")http://wiki.cohtitan.com/wiki/Main_Page(/URL) And I edit it to this: (URL="http://wiki.cohtitan.com/wiki/Main_Page")Linky(/URL) |
Example:
CoH Homepage
Will display like this:
CoH Homepage
You can also color/bold your highlighted text before imbedding your link... I dunno if you can do it after imbedding, haven't tried it.
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Don�t say things. What you are stands over you the while, and thunders so that I cannot hear what you say to the contrary. - R.W. Emerson |
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Yes. As long as the codes are in the proper order, it will work the same way.|
Originally Posted by Impish Kat
You can also color/bold your highlighted text before imbedding your link... I dunno if you can do it after imbedding, haven't tried it.
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Code:
[COLOR="DarkOrange"]CoH Homepage (Link in DarkOrange)[/COLOR]
[COLOR="Lime"]CoH Homepage (Link in Lime)[/COLOR]
[COLOR="Cyan"]CoH Homepage (Link in Cyan)[/COLOR]
[COLOR="Black"]CoH Homepage (Link in Black)[/COLOR]
Result:
CoH Homepage (Link in DarkOrange)
CoH Homepage (Link in Lime)
CoH Homepage (Link in Cyan)
CoH Homepage (Link in Black)
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Then look out for that symbol (|
Originally Posted by Ironblade
What do you know - I didn't know it could do that.
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) on any site you may post on. That's pretty much the universal symbol for "add hyperlink" in any kind of WYSIWYG (What You See Is What You Get) HTML editor, just like 
that one means "add image."
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um, yeah, I think that's pretty obvious. Even Word and Excel use that symbol. I meant that I didn't know you could highlight the text before hitting the button.
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The old forums made this much easier.
On these new forums, how do I embed a link inside a word?
For instance, if you were to click on the word below:
Linky
You would be directed to this link:
http://wiki.cohtitan.com/wiki/Main_Page
"Everybody wants to change the world, but nobody wants to change themselves." -Tolstoy