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Winston Smith Gold Member Offline Ministry of Truth Posts: 1549 Oceania Gender:	Displaying text as a hyperlink? Feb 28^th, 2014 at 12:55pm Can anyone show me how to format a URL with text, so that the text becomes the hyperlink? For example, if I wanted to direct the reader towards a link, I would ask them to click "here"; where the "here" is the underlying hyperlink.
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... Gold Member Offline Posts: 23673 WA Gender:	Re: Displaying text as a hyperlink? Reply #1 - Feb 28^th, 2014 at 1:07pm [Url=webaddress ] text you want to appear as a link [/ url ] Remove any spaces
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Re: Displaying text as a hyperlink?
Reply #2 - Feb 28^th, 2014 at 1:08pm

I didn't know how people did that either.

Then I right clicked the 'Insert Hyperlink' button and found out

Paste the url you want to link to, and then type the text that you want displayed.

e.g.

http://ozpolitic.com/forum/YaBB.pl Click Here

And then select the url and the text, and then click the 'Insert Hyperlink' button.

Click Here

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Winston Smith Gold Member Offline Ministry of Truth Posts: 1549 Oceania Gender:	Re: Displaying text as a hyperlink? Reply #3 - Feb 28^th, 2014 at 1:10pm Thanks
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Reply #4 - Mar 4^th, 2014 at 3:53am

Sweet, I didn't know you could do that here... not that I will take the time to bother doing it,.. well,.. I might slow down who knows.... It's only an equals sign and another paste I suppose!!!!!!!!!! = cool!! Roll Eyes

BTW, I confirmed what honky was saying by clicking "quote" on winstons last reply to confirm how it's done.. but you all know that,... just saying for the sake of completeness Cheesy

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Sir Spot of Borg Gold Member Offline WE ARE BORG Posts: 26509 Australia	Re: Displaying text as a hyperlink? Reply #5 - Mar 4^th, 2014 at 5:08am Its standard in most forums but when i did it here i was told i was "secretive" and "directing ppl to who knows where". Apparently there are dolts here that think you shouldnt do it that way. SOB
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Reply #6 - Mar 4^th, 2014 at 12:29pm

I would not follow a link posted on a forum if I did not know where it was going, and I would advise others the same. The person who posted it could be a complete idiot who trusts any site they come across, or could have much better anti-malware installed, or could just enjoy messing with people.

You can check by right clicking on the link and choosing copy link location (will vary slightly with your browser). Then open a new tab and paste it into the URL bar. If you trust the site, hit enter.

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Reply #7 - Mar 4^th, 2014 at 1:28pm

Sir Spot of Borg wrote on Mar 4^th, 2014 at 5:08am:

Its standard in most forums but when i did it here i was told i was "secretive" and "directing ppl to who knows where". Apparently there are dolts here that think you shouldnt do it that way.

SOB

There's nothing secretive about it.

When you hover the cursor arrow over the hyperlink, the complete url is displayed at the bottom of the screen.

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Reply #8 - Mar 4^th, 2014 at 3:00pm

freediver wrote on Mar 4^th, 2014 at 12:29pm:

I would not follow a link posted on a forum if I did not know where it was going, and I would advise others the same. The person who posted it could be a complete idiot who trusts any site they come across, or could have much better anti-malware installed, or could just enjoy messing with people.

You can check by right clicking on the link and choosing copy link location (will vary slightly with your browser). Then open a new tab and paste it into the URL bar. If you trust the site, hit enter.

Freediver,

I can understand "some" people being over-protective about clicking on a link noted as "click here" by certain friends. However, if they have any nous at all they can point the mouse at the link and it will tell them exactly what it is. Not everyone is computer illiterate.

I very much doubt that anyone could complain about getting malware (or a virus) from Oz Pol. This is one of the safer sites on the Net.

The only "other" complaint seems to be from certain old codgers who expect instantaneous acknowledgement of their ponderousness. Refer above. Wink

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Re: Displaying text as a hyperlink?
Reply #9 - Mar 4^th, 2014 at 4:04pm

Neferti wrote on Mar 4^th, 2014 at 3:00pm:

freediver wrote on Mar 4^th, 2014 at 12:29pm:

I would not follow a link posted on a forum if I did not know where it was going, and I would advise others the same. The person who posted it could be a complete idiot who trusts any site they come across, or could have much better anti-malware installed, or could just enjoy messing with people.

You can check by right clicking on the link and choosing copy link location (will vary slightly with your browser). Then open a new tab and paste it into the URL bar. If you trust the site, hit enter.

Freediver,

I can understand "some" people being over-protective about clicking on a link noted as "click here" by certain friends. However, if they have any nous at all they can point the mouse at the link and it will tell them exactly what it is. Not everyone is computer illiterate.

I very much doubt that anyone could complain about getting malware (or a virus) from Oz Pol. This is one of the safer sites on the Net.

The only "other" complaint seems to be from certain old codgers who expect instantaneous acknowledgement of their ponderousness. Refer above. Wink

That's exactly the mindset that spammers rely on to get malware and viruses onto your computer.

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Aussie Gold Member Offline OzPolitic Posts: 38769 Gender:	Re: Displaying text as a hyperlink? Reply #10 - Mar 4^th, 2014 at 4:22pm Don't you worry Mr. Smith. Neferti is 'computer literate' you see. She says so.
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John Smith Gold Member Offline Australian Politics Posts: 74677 Gender:	Re: Displaying text as a hyperlink? Reply #11 - Mar 4^th, 2014 at 4:41pm http://ozpolitic.com/forum/YaBB.pl]didigetit not sure what I'm doing wrong, but I can never get this thing
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Aussie Gold Member Offline OzPolitic Posts: 38769 Gender:	Re: Displaying text as a hyperlink? Reply #12 - Mar 4^th, 2014 at 4:46pm John Smith wrote on Mar 4^th, 2014 at 4:41pm: http://ozpolitic.com/forum/YaBB.pl]didigetit not sure what I'm doing wrong, but I can never get this thing [url (John then insert "equals" using = buggershitbum (that being the URL)]Try this[/url]
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Aussie Gold Member Offline OzPolitic Posts: 38769 Gender:	Re: Displaying text as a hyperlink? Reply #13 - Mar 4^th, 2014 at 4:50pm It is easy the instant you get it explained clearly, and then Bob's yer Uncle. I gave it away because most people did not understand that within all of those/these words, I had embedded the link.
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John Smith Gold Member Offline Australian Politics Posts: 74677 Gender:	Re: Displaying text as a hyperlink? Reply #14 - Mar 4^th, 2014 at 5:45pm http://www.ozpolitic.com/forum/YaBB.pl?board=general]=huh
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