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Posting URLs

Posted: Fri Nov 24, 2006 1:08 pm
by andym01480
How are you posting urls on this forum so the have the arrow and words rather than the link itself?

Posted: Fri Nov 24, 2006 2:05 pm
by Buddha443556
Quick peek at the CSS ...

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a.postlink { background: url(images/external.png) right no-repeat; padding-right: 12px; }

Posted: Sat Nov 25, 2006 5:06 pm
by feyd
:)

Posted: Sun Nov 26, 2006 6:22 pm
by RobertGonzalez
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

Posted: Sun Nov 26, 2006 6:33 pm
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 ;)

Posted: Sun Nov 26, 2006 7:39 pm
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?

Posted: Sun Nov 26, 2006 11:58 pm
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?

Posted: Mon Nov 27, 2006 1:26 am
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.

Posted: Mon Nov 27, 2006 8:19 am
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.

Posted: Mon Nov 27, 2006 8:50 am
by Jenk
Scratch 1 for Everah. :lol:

Posted: Mon Nov 27, 2006 11:23 am
by John Cartwright
I'm so confused now. :?

Posted: Mon Nov 27, 2006 12:03 pm
by Chris Corbyn
I think that one goes to everah :lol:

Posted: Mon Nov 27, 2006 12:14 pm
by RobertGonzalez
More information on using bbCode can be found in the bbCode FAQ's.

There is even a section on creating links.

Posted: Mon Nov 27, 2006 12:16 pm
by Burrito
hmm 8O

Posted: Mon Nov 27, 2006 12:17 pm
by John Cartwright
Burrito wrote:hmm 8O
equally 8O