# How do I do this?

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-do-i-do-this/45909>\
**Category:** About This Message Board\
**Created:** [December 16, 2000, 4:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-do-i-do-this/45909 "2000-12-16T16:27:08Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 9\
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**Author:** ![galen](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/ecc23a/32.png) [@galen](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/galen)\
**Post date:** [December 16, 2000, 4:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-do-i-do-this/45909/1 "2000-12-16T16:27:08Z")

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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’ ".

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**Author:** ![Ringo](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/779978/32.png) [@Ringo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ringo)\
**Post date:** [December 16, 2000, 4:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-do-i-do-this/45909/2 "2000-12-16T16:35:44Z")

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If you wanted to post a link to, say, the [Straight Dope Message Board](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/), you’d do it as follows:

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

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

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**Author:** ![MattTheCroc](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/439d5e/32.png) [@MattTheCroc](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MattTheCroc)\
**Post date:** [December 17, 2000, 8:15am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-do-i-do-this/45909/3 "2000-12-17T08:15:13Z")

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[Straight Dope Message Board](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/)

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

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**Author:** ![MattTheCroc](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/439d5e/32.png) [@MattTheCroc](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MattTheCroc)\
**Post date:** [December 17, 2000, 8:16am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-do-i-do-this/45909/4 "2000-12-17T08:16:20Z")

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

Ignore above post.

Preview is my friend.

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**Author:** ![galen](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/ecc23a/32.png) [@galen](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/galen)\
**Post date:** [December 17, 2000, 8:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-do-i-do-this/45909/5 "2000-12-17T20:48:08Z")

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Thanks, beatle.

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**Author:** ![cornflakes](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/9d8465/32.png) [@cornflakes](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/cornflakes)\
**Post date:** [December 18, 2000, 4:48am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-do-i-do-this/45909/6 "2000-12-18T04:48:51Z")

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vB codes explained:

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

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**Author:** ![cornflakes](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/9d8465/32.png) [@cornflakes](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/cornflakes)\
**Post date:** [December 18, 2000, 4:50am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-do-i-do-this/45909/7 "2000-12-18T04:50:37Z")

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

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**Author:** ![Sapphire\_Bullet](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/96bed5/32.png) [@Sapphire\_Bullet](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sapphire_Bullet)\
**Post date:** [December 18, 2000, 8:51am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-do-i-do-this/45909/8 "2000-12-18T08:51:50Z")

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just a test…

Straight Dope

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**Author:** ![Mac\_Guffin](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/2bfe46/32.png) [@Mac\_Guffin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mac_Guffin)\
**Post date:** [December 18, 2000, 10:22am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-do-i-do-this/45909/9 "2000-12-18T10:22:06Z")

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A test for me too [testing](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?threadid=50028&pagenumber=3)  
Woo hoo it works! 🙂