ChatterBank1 min ago
Creating a shortcut to a link
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When you send a post to this site... and you want to include a link in your post...
How do you reduce the link down so that it says something like ....Click Here...instead of displaying the whole link ,which seems to take up so much space.
....(I can't remember where the brackets go)....
How do you reduce the link down so that it says something like ....Click Here...instead of displaying the whole link ,which seems to take up so much space.
....(I can't remember where the brackets go)....
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Do you mean like this ?
(Click the link and read 'To label a hyperlink', under 'Posting guidelines')
Chris
(Click the link and read 'To label a hyperlink', under 'Posting guidelines')
Chris
Your link seems to work there, Alavahalf!
To be honest, I rarely use that shortcut. If I do, I go to the tutorial page, highlight the relevant bit of HTML and then copy and paste it into my post. I then replace the URL in the example with the one that I want to link to, and replace 'my label' with my own choice of wording.
I'll usually just paste the entire URL. If it's particularly lengthy, I'll shorten it by using TinyURL:
http://tinyurl.com/
TinyURL is also useful for linking to secure web pages (with 'https' inthe URL, instead of 'http'). If you put a 'https' URL on here, it won't 'hyperlink'. (i.e. it won't be 'clickable'). Using TinyURL gets round that problem. For example, both ChuckFickens and I have used TinyURL, earlier this evening, to get round the problem of 'https' links being 'non-clickable', here:
http://www.theanswerbank.co.uk/Technology/Comp uters/Question739924.html
Chris
To be honest, I rarely use that shortcut. If I do, I go to the tutorial page, highlight the relevant bit of HTML and then copy and paste it into my post. I then replace the URL in the example with the one that I want to link to, and replace 'my label' with my own choice of wording.
I'll usually just paste the entire URL. If it's particularly lengthy, I'll shorten it by using TinyURL:
http://tinyurl.com/
TinyURL is also useful for linking to secure web pages (with 'https' inthe URL, instead of 'http'). If you put a 'https' URL on here, it won't 'hyperlink'. (i.e. it won't be 'clickable'). Using TinyURL gets round that problem. For example, both ChuckFickens and I have used TinyURL, earlier this evening, to get round the problem of 'https' links being 'non-clickable', here:
http://www.theanswerbank.co.uk/Technology/Comp uters/Question739924.html
Chris
Got the Tinyurl to work http://tinyurl.com/dxllwe
so at least I'm getting somewhere...it just kooks altogether better..... Many thanks guys..!
so at least I'm getting somewhere...it just kooks altogether better..... Many thanks guys..!
just to add to what chris has said. TinyURL is also very handy on this site as it gets round the, sometimes intrusive, censoring of links.
for example, a lot of links to items on the microsoft website include the words "family ID" in the link, which at first glance seems totally non-offensive, however once the space is taken out (as it would be in a link) you get the letters Y I and D together and the censoring on this site sees familYID, and as the word YID is deemed (correctly) to be offensive the link gets censored.
The only way to get round this and post a link to a lot of pages on the microsoft site is to use tinyURL.
(PS I apologise for the use of HTML to get round the censoring, no offense was intended and it was purely for demonstration)
for example, a lot of links to items on the microsoft website include the words "family ID" in the link, which at first glance seems totally non-offensive, however once the space is taken out (as it would be in a link) you get the letters Y I and D together and the censoring on this site sees familYID, and as the word YID is deemed (correctly) to be offensive the link gets censored.
The only way to get round this and post a link to a lot of pages on the microsoft site is to use tinyURL.
(PS I apologise for the use of HTML to get round the censoring, no offense was intended and it was purely for demonstration)
it doesn't work for me !!!!
I can see the link is pointing to
http://www.theanswerbank.co.uk/Technology/
(and mine works)
but it shoots blank
looking at the code you've used
"
the block of code shows as
<td width="320" style="background: #FFF3DB;"><p class="QuestionAuthor">Question Author</p><div class="answer" style="border: 0px solid; white-space: wrap; overflow: hidden; text-overflow: clip;">
Click Here
Got it down to ..Click Here... but I keep getting a blank page ?
What am I missing ?
I can see the link is pointing to
http://www.theanswerbank.co.uk/Technology/
(and mine works)
but it shoots blank
looking at the code you've used
"
the block of code shows as
<td width="320" style="background: #FFF3DB;"><p class="QuestionAuthor">Question Author</p><div class="answer" style="border: 0px solid; white-space: wrap; overflow: hidden; text-overflow: clip;">
Click Here
Got it down to ..Click Here... but I keep getting a blank page ?
What am I missing ?
it takes me straight to
http://www.theanswerbank.co.uk/Technology/Ques tion740101.html
and if I hover over the link thats the address in the bar at the bottom...
maybe it's a strange IE/firefox thing (I can't try with IE on this lappy)
http://www.theanswerbank.co.uk/Technology/Ques tion740101.html
and if I hover over the link thats the address in the bar at the bottom...
maybe it's a strange IE/firefox thing (I can't try with IE on this lappy)
they put the URL outside of the quotes (so two sets of " before the address)
http://i44.tinypic.com/2ih5lzt.png
http://i44.tinypic.com/2ih5lzt.png
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