How do I do this?

How do I rename a link to insert into the body of a post. Often I see a post with text something like, "to see this go ‘here’ ".

If you wanted to post a link to, say, the Straight Dope Message Board, you’d do it as follows:

{url=“http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/”}Straight Dope Message Board{/url}

but using “[” and “]” in place of the “{” and “}”

Straight Dope Message Board

If you’re too lazy to do the old replace and switch :slight_smile:

Damn. My l33t h4><0r tricks don’t work here. Must be UBB I’m thinking of.

Ignore above post.

Preview is my friend.

Thanks, beatle.

vB codes explained:

http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/index.php?action=bbcode

It’s a link out of the HTML section of the FAQ, which makes it a little hard to find.

Oh yeah, I think that images (and a few other vB codes) have been disabled.

just a test…

Straight Dope

A test for me too testing
Woo hoo it works! :slight_smile: