Posting Links On Forums

Are you talking about the URL tag? Like this?

Edited by diabillic, 02 June 2010 - 11:24 AM.

Thats exactly what I am talking about.

Its a bb code snippet. Check out this quick reference.

edit: typo

Edited by diabillic, 02 June 2010 - 12:35 PM.

Thats basically the same lay-out I've been trying to get to work, I don't know what to enter whem I can't view the whole url of a web page that I'm trying to link to.

The hyperlink tag just linked you to another page.

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This is just a test, trying to see if anything works

My test did not work, using this site to put in a link a screen comes up that says to enter complete url which I can't because I can't see it, tried to cut and paste what was visible and ended up with a screen that says ---can't be found--

Edited by Shacko, 03 June 2010 - 10:18 AM.

You added an extra http://

I appreciate you tring to help, but you're dealing with one of the dumbest persons on a computer known to man.

You say I added an extra http://, thats what I cut and pasted to add to the window, thats what showed on my browser, I still don't know what part of the url can I make a link out of, I don't understand how part of the url will work.

Maybe a picture will help. When you click on the "Insert Link" button, you'll get a pop-up that looks like the picture below.



Do you see how it already inputs the http:// for you? If you look at the top of your browser in the address bar, you'll see the address of the page you are currently viewing. See how it already starts with http://

For example, this page is http://www.geekstogo...46#entry1844146

Combining those two, you would end up with http://http://www.geekstogo.com/forum/Post...46#entry1844146 which is an invalid address and won't work.

The problem is that you can't have two http:// in a website address. What I do is copy the link from my address bar that I want to link to, and delete everything in the pop-up box and then paste in my own link.

Does that make sense?

Edited by Spyderturbo007, 04 June 2010 - 10:02 AM.

Test

This is my test link, hope it works!


The darn thing worked! I can put off my brain opperation to later, thanks to the ones that responded

Edited by Shacko, 04 June 2010 - 11:47 AM.

Test

This is my test link, hope it works!


The darn thing worked! I can put off my brain opperation to later, thanks to the ones that responded

Works fine on my end as well.