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General Forge Forums => Site Discussion => Topic started by: Christopher Kubasik on January 30, 2004, 09:43:35 PM

Title: Attractive Links
Post by: Christopher Kubasik on January 30, 2004, 09:43:35 PM
Um,

How do you guys do that cool thing where a long string of alphanumeric characters becomes the word "here", or "the name of the thread I'm linking to"?

Thanks,

Christopher
Title: Attractive Links
Post by: Jack Spencer Jr on January 30, 2004, 09:57:00 PM
Well, an explanation of the BBCode is like on the posting page, and you can find it here (http://www.indie-rpgs.com/faq.php?mode=bbcode)

The info you need from that page:
QuoteLinking to another site
phpBB BBCode supports a number of ways of creating URIs, Uniform Resource Indicators better known as URLs.

  • The first of these uses the url=][/url] tag; whatever you type after the = sign will cause the contents of that tag to act as a URL. For example, to link to phpBB.com you could use:

    url=http://www.phpbb.com/]Visit phpBB![/url]

    This would generate the following link, Visit phpBB! (http://www.phpbb.com/) You will notice the link opens in a new window so the user can continue browsing the forums if they wish.[/list:u]
NOTE I left the "[" off of the example tags in bold so it won't get translated into the links, which would be silly since you couldn't see them.
Title: Attractive Links
Post by: Valamir on January 30, 2004, 10:08:36 PM
Actually, when you're typeing a reply, just mouse over the URL button at the top.  It will give you the formatting code for both methods.
Title: Attractive Links
Post by: M. J. Young on January 31, 2004, 05:05:10 AM
This particular board also supports HTML coding of links; that means you can type < a href="http://www.mjyoung.net/publish" >Books by the Author< /a > and have it show up as Books by the Author (but you have to take out those extra spaces between the brackets and the characters for it to work).

--M. J. Young
Title: Attractive Links
Post by: Christopher Kubasik on February 01, 2004, 03:28:03 AM
Thanks guys.

Christopher