How do I make a live text link?

[Don Cuevas]

I know how to do this two diferent ways on the LP TT, but not yet here.
What I'm looking for is a way that one or several words can represent a URL.
One, it's cooler and I can be more creative. (A-hem!)
Two, it hides long URLs from view so I don't have to use TinyUrl.

Example: what if I want the words "Chile Thesaurus" to represent the URL www.chileplants.com/chart.asp with the URL itself being visible? I already know how to make the www.chileplants.com/chart.asp blue and clickable, but how to I get "Chile Thesaurus" to be clickable to go to www.chileplants.com/chart.asp ?

Mil gracias.

[Deleted]

Maybe check with WIZARD

[Deleted]

Click on 'reply' (don't use quick reply).
Click on the little globe in the second row.
This will give you (url)(/url) -- in brackets rather than parentheses.
Put an equal sign after 'url' and then put you http link there.
(url=http etc)Then you type the name of the link here(/url)
Preview and click on the link to make sure it works.

A link to Any Port in a Storm would look like this before you post it: (url=http.//anyportinastorm.proboards.com)Any Port in a Storm(/url) -- except of course for the brackets and the fact that I put a period instead of a colon on this example.

If your link is successful, it will look like this when validated:
Any Port in a Storm

You can click on QUOTE after this message and it will display the coding for you.

[bixaorellana]

I learned how from Kerouac, but I do it a little differently.

1. I type the text I want to be clickable
2, highlight it
3. click on the little globe button
4. insert the = and the http etc

It's exactly the same method, but with steps in different order.

[Don Cuevas]

My Mexican Kitchen=http://mexkitchen.blogspot.com/

Still not quite what I was looking for.

Signed,
Baffled

[bixaorellana]

Here it is deconstructed. Replies # 69 and 70.

[Don Cuevas]

I give up. It's unfathomable. I tried, though.

[Don Cuevas]

New day, another try.

Your example:
<url=http://www.bikewebsite.com/>Fix your bike</url>

My test example:
My Mexican Kitchen

Ahhhhhhhhhhhhh. However, that's really complicated.

I saw something similar of eGullet.org, but there are better text link creator tools.

Using the Kerouac shortcut:
My Mexican Kitchen"]=http://http://mexkitchen.blogspot.com/]My Mexican Kitchen

[Deleted]

you have an extra http:// in there -- but my way is not a shortcut anyway. You still need the url indicators.

[Don Cuevas]

The eGullet site has a button that creates the same code as used here. You merely have to select the text, click the button, paste or hand write the URL, click a done button or something, y Roberto es tú tío.

(An example I made, under another user name:
"El Bajío has update their web site. It's long overdue for such a worthy restaurant. El Bajío")

One more try:My Mexican Kitchen"]=http://mexkitchen.blogspot.com]My Mexican Kitchen

Fuhgeddaboudit!

[Deleted]

[url=http://mexkitchen.blogspot.com/]My Mexican Kitchen[/url]



My Mexican Kitchen

[bixaorellana]

Hooray for Askar!

In the time since the posts above were written, a new button has been added, the noubbc button:
If you highlight over anything with tags, then click that button, it will show the tags and keep them from functioning. (tags are the sets of brackets)

Now what Askar shows in his post can be rendered as:

[url=http://mexkitchen.blogspot.com/]My Mexican Kitchen[/url]

which before posting, as typed in the message box is:

[noubbc][url=http://mexkitchen.blogspot.com/]My Mexican Kitchen[/url][/noubbc]

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Now, does everyone know how to make a picture into a link?