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

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/links-how-do-you-put-them-in-your-own-words/205338>\
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**Created:** [October 3, 2003, 2:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/links-how-do-you-put-them-in-your-own-words/205338 "2003-10-03T14:35:41Z")\
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**Author:** ![ammo52](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/73ab20/32.png) [@ammo52](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ammo52)\
**Post date:** [October 3, 2003, 2:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/links-how-do-you-put-them-in-your-own-words/205338/1 "2003-10-03T14:35:41Z")

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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.

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**Author:** ![Zeldar](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/b77776/32.png) [@Zeldar](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Zeldar)\
**Post date:** [October 3, 2003, 3:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/links-how-do-you-put-them-in-your-own-words/205338/2 "2003-10-03T15:07:19Z")

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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?

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**Author:** ![ammo52](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/73ab20/32.png) [@ammo52](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ammo52)\
**Post date:** [October 3, 2003, 3:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/links-how-do-you-put-them-in-your-own-words/205338/3 "2003-10-03T15:18:14Z")

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Well, let’s see… if I say to go[here](http://www.cnn.com/) to get the news, I’m just testing to see how it displays…

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**Author:** ![ammo52](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/73ab20/32.png) [@ammo52](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ammo52)\
**Post date:** [October 3, 2003, 3:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/links-how-do-you-put-them-in-your-own-words/205338/4 "2003-10-03T15:20:02Z")

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Thanks, Zeldar–

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**Author:** ![Zeldar](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/b77776/32.png) [@Zeldar](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Zeldar)\
**Post date:** [October 3, 2003, 3:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/links-how-do-you-put-them-in-your-own-words/205338/5 "2003-10-03T15:55:28Z")

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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.

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**Author:** ![Munch](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/munch/32/5281_2.png) [@Munch](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Munch)\
**Post date:** [October 3, 2003, 4:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/links-how-do-you-put-them-in-your-own-words/205338/6 "2003-10-03T16:13:38Z")

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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](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/).