Attractive Links

[Christopher Kubasik]

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

[Jack Spencer Jr]

Well, an explanation of the BBCode is like on the posting page, and you can find it here

The info you need from that page:

Linking 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! 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.

[Valamir]

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.

[M. J. Young]

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 http://www.mjyoung.net/publish/">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

[Christopher Kubasik]

Thanks guys.

Christopher