THere are times when someone wants to post a link on the board to something offsite, and the URL is very long. So long, this URL, that it causes the screen toscroll sideways for the entire topic page. :smt013
Our ever cheerful moderators :smt001 have pointed this out :smt018 as an "issue".
But to an old geezer like me, I need more than establishing guilt, I need :smt100 . So what's a person to do? :huh: I have been pondering on this :smt017 and think I have found the answer cleverly hidden in the Post a new topic view. When you hover the mouse pointer of the URL button, a help tip appears. Here goes!
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The help tip:
The key to posting a long URL is the second option, after the 'or'. Here it is by itself:
It has three parts.
So start putting it together like this, without the numbers!
So when you string it all together, it looks like this:
So, here is how it should look when done: Lewis & Clark and the Columbia River.
Note that spaces are not allowed anywhere in the first URL section, but the ARE allowed in the "URL text" section.
When you are making a post, there are button above the space where you type your post. If you click one of these buttons, it will insert the appropriate opening tag. Then, when you click close, it will insert the close tag. But in my experience, this does not work well. It tends to want to insert tags at the end of your text, not in the middle where you want them. For me, it is easier just to hover the mouse over the button to bring up the hint of how to do it, then just type in the tags myself.
The real key to getting it right is to look for the tag brackets. You should have two matched sets. One is the opening set - [ ], and one is the closing set [/ ]. Inside the opening set is the URL, between the sets is the text you want to see, and inside the closing set is what you are closing, in this case 'url'. The '/' inside the closing brackets means you are closing some kind of tag, you must specify what.
To see how someone did something, you normally can bring up the page, and then choose to look at the page source. For this page, you could bring up the page source, then do a search of XMas and it would help you find the relevant section. From what I have seen you have to be logged in to do this. If not logged in, you get a generic minimal page created on the fly that shows you almost nothing.
Our ever cheerful moderators :smt001 have pointed this out :smt018 as an "issue".
But to an old geezer like me, I need more than establishing guilt, I need :smt100 . So what's a person to do? :huh: I have been pondering on this :smt017 and think I have found the answer cleverly hidden in the Post a new topic view. When you hover the mouse pointer of the URL button, a help tip appears. Here goes!
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The help tip:
Code:
Insert URL:[url] http://url[/url] or [url=http://url]URL text[/url] (alt+w)The key to posting a long URL is the second option, after the 'or'. Here it is by itself:
Code:
[url=http://url] URL text [/url]
Code:
The first part is the opening URL tag and the web location, which looks like this [url=http://someplace_one_the_web.htm].
The second part is the text that you want to have highlighted in your post for the reader to see.
The third part is the end of URL tag, which looks like this [/url]So start putting it together like this, without the numbers!
Code:
1. - First part, which must begin and end with square brackets.
2. - Second part, the text that should be highlighted. For example, you might choose:
Lewis & Clark and the Columbia River
3. - Third part, which must begin and end with square brackets.
1. - [url=http://englishriverwebsite.com/LewisClarkColumbiaRiver/index.html]
2. - Lewis & Clark and the Columbia River
3. - [/url]So when you string it all together, it looks like this:
Code:
[url=http://englishriverwebsite.com/LewisClarkColumbiaRiver/index.html] Lewis & Clark and the Columbia River [/url]So, here is how it should look when done: Lewis & Clark and the Columbia River.
Note that spaces are not allowed anywhere in the first URL section, but the ARE allowed in the "URL text" section.
When you are making a post, there are button above the space where you type your post. If you click one of these buttons, it will insert the appropriate opening tag. Then, when you click close, it will insert the close tag. But in my experience, this does not work well. It tends to want to insert tags at the end of your text, not in the middle where you want them. For me, it is easier just to hover the mouse over the button to bring up the hint of how to do it, then just type in the tags myself.
The real key to getting it right is to look for the tag brackets. You should have two matched sets. One is the opening set - [ ], and one is the closing set [/ ]. Inside the opening set is the URL, between the sets is the text you want to see, and inside the closing set is what you are closing, in this case 'url'. The '/' inside the closing brackets means you are closing some kind of tag, you must specify what.
To see how someone did something, you normally can bring up the page, and then choose to look at the page source. For this page, you could bring up the page source, then do a search of XMas and it would help you find the relevant section. From what I have seen you have to be logged in to do this. If not logged in, you get a generic minimal page created on the fly that shows you almost nothing.
