# Doing something wrong creating links **URL:** \ **Category:** About This Message Board\ **Created:** [November 10, 2008, 3:47am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/doing-something-wrong-creating-links/471984 "2008-11-10T03:47:51Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 5\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![IvoryTowerDenizen](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ivorytowerdenizen/32/17937_2.png) [@IvoryTowerDenizen](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/IvoryTowerDenizen)\ **Post date:** [November 13, 2008, 7:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/doing-something-wrong-creating-links/471984/21 "2008-11-13T19:06:57Z")
How’s it going? ---
**Author:** ![Daylate](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/9dc877/32.png) [@Daylate](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Daylate)\ **Post date:** [November 14, 2008, 5:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/doing-something-wrong-creating-links/471984/22 "2008-11-14T17:04:17Z")
Having been a lurker for practically forever, I’ve just recently started posting. And have what I fear is a really stupid question - don’t even know if this is the right place for it but it is at least somewhat related, so here goes. How do you get a link to a photo that you want to dislay? I went to the section of the board where this is covered, and found only the following: \*To post a link to some website address with a picture or image, you can just type the url, such as typing: [www.straightdope.com](http://www.straightdope.com) \* But it doesn’t tell how to get the photo on that website in a viewable fashion. Any advice here would be very much appreciated. Or if anyone can provide a link to somewhere with detailed instructions on the whole procedure of linking up to a photo, that would also be great. ---
**Author:** ![Heffalump\_and\_Roo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/heffalump_and_roo/32/7691_2.png) [@Heffalump\_and\_Roo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Heffalump_and_Roo)\ **Post date:** [November 14, 2008, 5:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/doing-something-wrong-creating-links/471984/23 "2008-11-14T17:37:30Z")
> [@pseudotriton\_ruber\_ruber](#): > > 1. Paste the URL in the box, > [@pseudotriton\_ruber\_ruber](#): > > I’ve never clicked control-v in my life, but maybe that’s the way to go here. So how do you paste the URL in the box? control-v is paste. Edit-paste doesn’t work while the pop-up box is open. You’re doing something very tricky here. ---
**Author:** ![pseudotriton\_ruber\_ruber](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/a9a28c/32.png) [@pseudotriton\_ruber\_ruber](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/pseudotriton_ruber_ruber)\ **Post date:** [November 14, 2008, 5:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/doing-something-wrong-creating-links/471984/24 "2008-11-14T17:42:32Z")
> [@Heffalump\_and\_Roo](#): > > So how do you paste the URL in the box? control-v is paste. Edit-paste doesn’t work while the pop-up box is open. > > You’re doing something very tricky here. I right-click to get a pop-up menu that that includes “paste” as an option. ---
**Author:** ![Heffalump\_and\_Roo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/heffalump_and_roo/32/7691_2.png) [@Heffalump\_and\_Roo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Heffalump_and_Roo)\ **Post date:** [November 14, 2008, 6:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/doing-something-wrong-creating-links/471984/25 "2008-11-14T18:13:29Z")
Ah, OK, got it. Yup, **Ivory** ’s method works your way also. I’ll rewrite your instructions to match hers. Your instructions with additions in blue and deletions in strike-out. 1. Copy the URL. (Right click on link and select copy) 2. Press the Link button. [del]2a. delete the “http://” that’s already there.[/del] 3. Paste the URL in the box, (Right click on space and select paste), which will automatically write over the http: in the box 4. Press OK. 5. Type “Rosenbaum” which will automatically write over the the second URL that would otherwise appear in the link. The only way I could replicate your method was to click in the box after the http: and unhighlight the http: before I pasted it. That’s an extra step. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/doing-something-wrong-creating-links/471984.md?page=1)