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Posting URLs

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How are you posting urls on this forum so the have the arrow and words rather than the link itself?
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Post by Buddha443556 »

Quick peek at the CSS ...

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a.postlink { background: url(images/external.png) right no-repeat; padding-right: 12px; }
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:)
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To post a URL you can just enter the URL and the parser will turn it into a live link (as long as you include the http:// part of it) like this...
http://www.google.com

To force the URL, you can wrap it in tags. To make a text link, you wrap th ... est search
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Post by John Cartwright »

Everah wrote:To post a URL you can just enter the URL and the parser will turn it into a live link (as long as you include the http:// part of it) like this...
http://www.google.com

To force the URL, you can wrap it in tags. To make a text link, you wrap th ... est search
re-read the first post carefully ;)
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Post by RobertGonzalez »

I assumed 'arrow and words rather than the link itself' meant the OP was unsure how to make text links. Since the issue of arrows was answered already, but the issue of text links was not, I posted a brief answer on how to post text links. Was I incorrect in my understanding of the OP's question?
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Post by John Cartwright »

Everah wrote:I assumed 'arrow and words rather than the link itself' meant the OP was unsure how to make text links. Since the issue of arrows was answered already, but the issue of text links was not, I posted a brief answer on how to post text links. Was I incorrect in my understanding of the OP's question?
I think a better re-wording would be, how did you physically acheive the effect of adding arrows to links?
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Post by andym01480 »

Thanks Everah.

I was really trying to ask how you got links to be with a description rather than the url and incidentally how the arrow got there. It was obviously badly worded :oops: from the sarcastic(!) initial answers :roll:

I thought you must be using html in the posts to do it. The equals sign is the answer I needed.
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Post by RobertGonzalez »

andym01480 wrote:Thanks Everah.

I was really trying to ask how you got links to be with a description rather than the url and incidentally how the arrow got there.
Thanks for clearing that up for us andym01480. I'm glad I was able to help.
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Scratch 1 for Everah. :lol:
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I'm so confused now. :?
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I think that one goes to everah :lol:
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Post by RobertGonzalez »

More information on using bbCode can be found in the bbCode FAQ's.

There is even a section on creating links.
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hmm 8O
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Burrito wrote:hmm 8O
equally 8O
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