Posting links w/out HTML

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Other than the automatic URL feature in UBB, and using the {url}http://www.your link here.com{/url} UBB code, how can I still put links in posts. Manny did it in the gun sizes post, so I assume there is a way to use the old < a href="http://www.your link here.com >Click Here< /a >, or some variation there of.

Test:
<a href=“http://espn.go.com”>ESPN homepage</a>

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This may become important in the case that one wants to link to a long convoluted URL that may otherwise bastardize the screensize. As most probably can see.

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Here is the complete UBB guide to hyperlinking. Or, you can cheat by hitting “Reply with Quote” on my post here and peeking at the code.

Hope this helps.

Change Your Password, Please and don’t use HTML, as it has been disabled

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OK, didn’t know there was that new feature in the upgrade.
Any odds on how many times I’ll screw it up by putting quotes in?

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Just checking something, don’t mind me…

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:smiley: How funny, they say HTML is disabled, yet the HTML special symbols codes still work.

Louie: young guy, possibly a bit green, but smart as paint. - Greg Charles
Have some fun (even though it’s now disabled)

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And if you’re too lazy to go to the site manhattan linked to, here’s the code :

[words to describe site](address of site)

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<font=color red>the lazy blue cat did jump over the yellow dog</font>

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Dang

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Dang

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I’ve brought this up only a zillion times since the Great Hack, but the HTML hyperlink code

<a href=“web address goes here”>words to click on</a>

can handle much longer URLs than its UBB equivalent

{url=web address goes here}words to click on{/url}

so with a long URL, there’s no longer a way to keep the URL from stretching out the page.

Is it possible that the UBB code will be upgraded to be able to handle longer URLs? Do our tech people know why UBB code has problems with URLs over a given length in the above format? And do they know how long a URL can be without causing problems in the above format?

I’m going to keep asking this $%&#@! question until I get an answer.

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Here’s about as close as I think you’re likely to get to an answer from our side.

We bought the software. Yep. Just went to Infopop and bought it off the shelf, much like I bought Microsoft Office. We did not write it. We don’t care to rewrite it. The people who did write it have a UBB discussion forum here . Have at them, and let us know what they say.

Change Your Password, Please and don’t use HTML, as it has been disabled

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Thanks, Manny. I’ve posted here at the UBB site you linked to, and I’ll let y’all know if they tell me anything.

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Here’s the reply to RTFirefly question :

So it’s automagic! that’s doing that.

Louie: young guy, possibly a bit green, but smart as paint. - Greg Charles
Have some fun (even though it’s now disabled)

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blah

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cool! I’m easily amused.

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I posted some followup questions - basically, (1) exactly how many characters would UBB allow before splitting the string, and (2) is info on how to manually raise the limit available to our techs? We’ll see what they say.

I spose I should have also asked for clarification on the reasons not to raise the limit - I don’t know what ‘extreme table distortion’ is, or whether it’s something we’d have to worry about on this site.

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Testing:
testing

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More tests:
Narrow Road

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