Links- how do you put them in your own words?

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#1

What I mean is, I see links where a part of a poster’s sentence is obviously a URL link, but it isn’t in URL code. How do you code it so that you can say a sentence like "not according to the NFL, for instance, but the word “NFL” is a link that will take the viewer to a cited piece of material?

I know I can paste in URL’s which will be displayed as links, I just don’t know how to “rename” a link as something in the context of the rest of a sentence.

#2

It’s just a matter of using whatever text you want between the “[url=” and the “” tags. That’s why they’re that way; so you can put whatever description you want. I’ve seen at least these types of things in that slot:

  1. the full URL itself
  2. a one-word “link” or “site” or “here”
  3. “click here”
  4. the title of the website
  5. some random text
  6. a long stretch of descriptive words

That help?

#3

Well, let’s see… if I say to gohere to get the news, I’m just testing to see how it displays…

#4

Thanks, Zeldar–

#5

Sure thing, ammo52. There was a thread not too long ago (in The Pit as I recall) where every word was linked to a different thread. Must have taken a very long time to compose, but it was quite effective.

#6

Also, if you click on “quote” at the bottom of someone’s post, you can see all the coding they did.

By typing in:
[u****rl=http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/]Linkity link

you get:
Linkity link.