How do you post "click here" to go somewhere?

[SleepySandy]

I know about tinyurl, but I think there seems to be a way to post text that has a link behind it.

jskinner and rested gal often post things where you click particular text to go somewhere else.

Birdshell posted it in this thread: viewtopic/t18609/Mask-Decoration-Contes ... -Vote.html where you "Click Here for the Pad-a-Cheek website"

How do you do this?

[harikarishimari]

I know about tinyurl, but I think there seems to be a way to post text that has a link behind it.

jskinner and rested gal often post things where you click particular text to go somewhere else.

Birdshell posted it in this thread: viewtopic/t18609/Mask-Decoration-Contes ... -Vote.html where you "Click Here for the Pad-a-Cheek website"

How do you do this?

the simplest way to do that is type the complete URL in your message (including the http://), or cut-and-paste it, then highlight it (hold down the left mouse button, drag across the text, make it reverse colors), then click on the URL button above the text/edit window. That's all . If you look at the resultant text you will notice that the button has surrounded your link with a pair of square brackets with the url and /url thingies. Those are special codes to make the output appear as clickable hypertext. You could actually just type those in, same result.

EXAMPLE: http://www.cpaptalk.com

Another option is to put some alternate text in quotes between the pair of bracketed symbols, and put the actual URL as url="http://cpaptalk" as part of the first square-bracket. The result is the same, except that the actual URL will not appear, only your alternate text

EXAMPLE: (url=http://www.cpaptalk.com)CLICK THIS!(/url)

but in the above example replace the (round) brackets with [square] brackets, which will then appear as:


EXAMPLE: CLICK THIS!

Confused enuf already ???? .


-HKS

[blarg]

To have a link that goes to cpaptalk.com type:

[ url=http://www.cpaptalk.com]Click here to go to CPAPTalk[/url]

Without the space after the first bracket.

[SleepySandy]

Thanks blarg!