# How Do You

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-do-you/48963>\
**Category:** About This Message Board\
**Created:** [January 8, 2001, 5:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-do-you/48963 "2001-01-08T05:19:36Z")\
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**Author:** ![King\_Rat](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/7bcc69/32.png) [@King\_Rat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/King_Rat)\
**Post date:** [January 8, 2001, 5:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-do-you/48963/1 "2001-01-08T05:19:36Z")

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I can add a link to my post by typing [http://www.anywebsite.com](http://www.anywebsite.com)

But I see that some know how to “rename” the link so that when it appears in their post, it might say

check out this here link  
How do you do that???

Thanks

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**Author:** ![bare](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bare/32/471_2.png) [@bare](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/bare)\
**Post date:** [January 8, 2001, 5:56am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-do-you/48963/2 "2001-01-08T05:56:50Z")

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Yeah?

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**Author:** ![SmackFu](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/53a042/32.png) [@SmackFu](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SmackFu)\
**Post date:** [January 8, 2001, 5:58am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-do-you/48963/3 "2001-01-08T05:58:29Z")

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Take a look at this:  
[http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/index.php?action=bbcode](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/index.php?action=bbcode)

The part you want is at the bottom of the section on “URL Hyperlinking”.

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**Author:** ![London\_Calling](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/49beb7/32.png) [@London\_Calling](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/London_Calling)\
**Post date:** [January 8, 2001, 6:15am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-do-you/48963/4 "2001-01-08T06:15:24Z")

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If you hit the ‘quote’ button beneath my post here, the third paragraph of code you see will be all you need. You will see that the _number_ following the ‘threadid=’ part needs to be changed to the relevant number of of the thread where you want the link to point (for that number, look at the threadid in the browser window when viewing the actual thread you want to refer to).

Also, the wording of the link itself needs to be changed (from: “This is the second paragraph”) to what you want it to say. Then it’s just copy and paste.  
[This is the third paragraph](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?threadid=54389)  
That’s one way that seems starightforward (to me), there are many others. Someone else may have a simpler solution.

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**Author:** ![yojimbo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/yojimbo/32/232_2.png) [@yojimbo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/yojimbo)\
**Post date:** [January 8, 2001, 6:40am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-do-you/48963/5 "2001-01-08T06:40:18Z")

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To make a link the way you say just type in the following

[**url=“[http://www.vbulletin.com](http://www.vbulletin.com)”]vBulletin Home Page[/url**]

and you get

[vBulletin Home Page](http://www.vbulletin.com)

To link a specific post hover over the reply with quote and use the post id no. in the following

[http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?postid=xxxxxxx#postxxxxxxx\*\*\*\*](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?postid=xxxxxxx#postxxxxxxx **** )

your first post to this thread is [this](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?postid=1033508#post1033508) link using postid = 1033508.