# hyperlink test **URL:** \ **Category:** About This Message Board\ **Created:** [April 29, 2000, 3:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hyperlink-test/16584 "2000-04-29T15:39:26Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Persephone](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/ecc23a/32.png) [@Persephone](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Persephone)\ **Post date:** [April 29, 2000, 3:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hyperlink-test/16584/1 "2000-04-29T15:39:26Z")
my husband’s guitar page ---
**Author:** ![Persephone](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/ecc23a/32.png) [@Persephone](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Persephone)\ **Post date:** [April 29, 2000, 3:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hyperlink-test/16584/2 "2000-04-29T15:41:28Z")
trying again husband’s page ---
**Author:** ![Persephone](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/ecc23a/32.png) [@Persephone](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Persephone)\ **Post date:** [April 29, 2000, 3:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hyperlink-test/16584/3 "2000-04-29T15:45:28Z")
keep doing it til I get it right husband’s homepage ---
**Author:** ![Xploder](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/x/a183cd/32.png) [@Xploder](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Xploder)\ **Post date:** [April 29, 2000, 3:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hyperlink-test/16584/4 "2000-04-29T15:50:33Z")
[http://www.angelfire.com/myband/guitartrag/](http://www.angelfire.com/myband/guitartrag/) Just a lame attempt… ---
**Author:** ![Persephone](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/ecc23a/32.png) [@Persephone](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Persephone)\ **Post date:** [April 29, 2000, 3:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hyperlink-test/16584/5 "2000-04-29T15:51:25Z")
well, let’s try it this way [www.angelfire.com/myband/guitartrag/](http://www.angelfire.com/myband/guitartrag/) ---
**Author:** ![Persephone](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/ecc23a/32.png) [@Persephone](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Persephone)\ **Post date:** [April 29, 2000, 3:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hyperlink-test/16584/6 "2000-04-29T15:54:33Z")
Can I get some help here? When I do it the way it says in the FAQ link to vBulletin hyperlink coding, I get this: > [@](#): > > /sdmb/www.angelfire.com/myband/guitartrag/ What’s the “/sdmb/” doing there? How did it get there? I didn’t put it there. How do I make it go away? I really wanna learn how to do hyperlinks. ---
**Author:** ![Xploder](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/x/a183cd/32.png) [@Xploder](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Xploder)\ **Post date:** [April 29, 2000, 3:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hyperlink-test/16584/7 "2000-04-29T15:54:51Z")
[www.angelfire.com/myband/guitartrag/](http://www.angelfire.com/myband/guitartrag/) ---
**Author:** ![Xploder](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/x/a183cd/32.png) [@Xploder](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Xploder)\ **Post date:** [April 29, 2000, 3:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hyperlink-test/16584/8 "2000-04-29T15:56:36Z")
Hey! It worked! Just use the url /url commands at beginning and end encased in brackets and leave off the http:// stuff. I almost amaze myself sometimes. ---
**Author:** ![Persephone](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/ecc23a/32.png) [@Persephone](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Persephone)\ **Post date:** [April 29, 2000, 4:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hyperlink-test/16584/9 "2000-04-29T16:00:03Z")
Yeah, I can make it work that way too. But I want to learn how to do it the _other_ way, you know, just a one or two word link, instead of the whole address. It just looks cooler that way, and it makes people think you actually know what you’re doing. 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![Xploder](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/x/a183cd/32.png) [@Xploder](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Xploder)\ **Post date:** [April 29, 2000, 4:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hyperlink-test/16584/10 "2000-04-29T16:00:27Z")
[Cristi’s husband’s homepage](http://www.angelfire.com/myband/guitartrag/) ---
**Author:** ![Xploder](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/x/a183cd/32.png) [@Xploder](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Xploder)\ **Post date:** [April 29, 2000, 4:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hyperlink-test/16584/11 "2000-04-29T16:01:28Z")
> [@](#): > > \*\* > [Cristi’s husband’s homepage](http://www.angelfire.com/myband/guitartrag/) > \*\* Ummmm…like this? ---
**Author:** ![Xploder](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/x/a183cd/32.png) [@Xploder](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Xploder)\ **Post date:** [April 29, 2000, 4:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hyperlink-test/16584/12 "2000-04-29T16:03:47Z")
Oops! Try this: reply to my message with the hyperlink and it should show the code sequence. ---
**Author:** ![Persephone](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/ecc23a/32.png) [@Persephone](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Persephone)\ **Post date:** [April 29, 2000, 4:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hyperlink-test/16584/13 "2000-04-29T16:04:46Z")
Well, what exactly did you type into this little box to make that work? ---
**Author:** ![Xploder](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/x/a183cd/32.png) [@Xploder](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Xploder)\ **Post date:** [April 29, 2000, 4:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hyperlink-test/16584/14 "2000-04-29T16:17:35Z")
url=“[http://www.angelfire.com/myband/guitartrag/](http://www.angelfire.com/myband/guitartrag/)”]Cristi’s husband’s homepage[/url Just type the above with an opening bracket at the beginning and a closing bracket at the end…I think. ---
**Author:** ![Persephone](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/ecc23a/32.png) [@Persephone](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Persephone)\ **Post date:** [April 29, 2000, 4:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hyperlink-test/16584/15 "2000-04-29T16:20:55Z")
once more ---
**Author:** ![Persephone](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/ecc23a/32.png) [@Persephone](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Persephone)\ **Post date:** [April 29, 2000, 4:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hyperlink-test/16584/16 "2000-04-29T16:23:09Z")
Nope. Still not working. What am I doing wrong here? ---
**Author:** ![Drain\_Bead](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/e47774/32.png) [@Drain\_Bead](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Drain_Bead)\ **Post date:** [April 29, 2000, 4:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hyperlink-test/16584/17 "2000-04-29T16:32:00Z")
What exactly is not working, Cristi? It seems to me like it’s working just fine. ---
**Author:** ![Gilligan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/e0b2c6/32.png) [@Gilligan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gilligan)\ **Post date:** [April 29, 2000, 4:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hyperlink-test/16584/18 "2000-04-29T16:34:04Z")
I think the “url=” tag requires the “http://”, so that using it with just “ww\_.etc” doesn’t work. In your second post, it looks like you left out the colon after http, and in your later posts you aren’t using http with the “url=”. Either that or something else. ---
**Author:** ![Persephone](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/ecc23a/32.png) [@Persephone](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Persephone)\ **Post date:** [April 29, 2000, 4:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hyperlink-test/16584/19 "2000-04-29T16:41:05Z")
[again](http://www.angelfire.com/myband/guitartrag/) ---
**Author:** ![Persephone](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/ecc23a/32.png) [@Persephone](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Persephone)\ **Post date:** [April 29, 2000, 4:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hyperlink-test/16584/20 "2000-04-29T16:42:43Z")
Yay! That one worked! Yay! By jove, I think I’ve got it! [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hyperlink-test/16584.md?page=2)