# Test thread #2 **URL:** \ **Category:** About This Message Board\ **Created:** [February 11, 2001, 3:28am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/test-thread-2/53985 "2001-02-11T03:28:45Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 14\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![KP235](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/9de0a6/32.png) [@KP235](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/KP235)\ **Post date:** [February 11, 2001, 3:28am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/test-thread-2/53985/1 "2001-02-11T03:28:45Z")
[http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?threadid=59442](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?threadid=59442) ---
**Author:** ![KP235](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/9de0a6/32.png) [@KP235](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/KP235)\ **Post date:** [February 11, 2001, 3:42am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/test-thread-2/53985/2 "2001-02-11T03:42:17Z")
Ok, what I’m trying to figure out is how a link to another page is done without showing the entire address. Example, in a thread there will be ‘click ‘here’ to see this thread’, the ‘here’ will be hilighted, but the url is not shown. Please educate me, how is this done ? ---
**Author:** ![Lord\_Jim](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/ecccb3/32.png) [@Lord\_Jim](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lord_Jim)\ **Post date:** [February 11, 2001, 4:05am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/test-thread-2/53985/3 "2001-02-11T04:05:27Z")
If you click on the little link at the bottom of this page labelled “vB code” it will take you to [this page](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/index.php?action=bbcode). Look in the section named “URL Hyperlinking”. To see how I just made that link, you can click on the quote icon at the bottom to this post and look at the codes involved. To link to your Test Thread #1, you would type: [**url=“[http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?threadid=59442](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?threadid=59442)”]Test Thread #1[**/url] and it would come out looking like this: [Test Thread #1](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?threadid=59442). Hope that helped. Jim ---
**Author:** ![Coldfire](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/a587f6/32.png) [@Coldfire](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Coldfire)\ **Post date:** [February 11, 2001, 4:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/test-thread-2/53985/4 "2001-02-11T04:06:57Z")
{url=“[http://www.cnn.com](http://www.cnn.com)”}Click here to see the CNN Website!{/url} Replace the {} with . Then you get: [Click here to see the CNN Website!](http://www.cnn.com) ---
**Author:** ![KP235](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/9de0a6/32.png) [@KP235](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/KP235)\ **Post date:** [February 11, 2001, 6:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/test-thread-2/53985/5 "2001-02-11T06:00:15Z")
[http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?threadid=59442](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?threadid=59442) LINK TO #1 ---
**Author:** ![KP235](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/9de0a6/32.png) [@KP235](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/KP235)\ **Post date:** [February 11, 2001, 6:01am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/test-thread-2/53985/6 "2001-02-11T06:01:41Z")
[[http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?threadid=59442](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?threadid=59442)] LINK TO #1 ---
**Author:** ![KP235](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/9de0a6/32.png) [@KP235](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/KP235)\ **Post date:** [February 11, 2001, 6:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/test-thread-2/53985/7 "2001-02-11T06:06:56Z")
[TO #1](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?threadid=59442) ---
**Author:** ![KP235](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/9de0a6/32.png) [@KP235](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/KP235)\ **Post date:** [February 11, 2001, 6:13am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/test-thread-2/53985/8 "2001-02-11T06:13:32Z")
Ok, I get it. Thank you Coldfire. I’ll get the hang of all this eventually. ---
**Author:** ![KP235](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/9de0a6/32.png) [@KP235](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/KP235)\ **Post date:** [February 11, 2001, 6:23am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/test-thread-2/53985/9 "2001-02-11T06:23:29Z")
Oh, by the way, should I go to the Pit and start whineing about that you closed my first test thread. Not that I want to, it just seems to be standard practice 'round here. 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![Soul\_of\_the\_Machine](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/a183cd/32.png) [@Soul\_of\_the\_Machine](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Soul_of_the_Machine)\ **Post date:** [February 11, 2001, 4:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/test-thread-2/53985/10 "2001-02-11T16:38:43Z")
That was a cute trick to get the ['s and]'s to appear correctly without having to use {'s and }'s. Verry nice. One smart cookie. ---
**Author:** ![blur](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/dbc845/32.png) [@blur](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/blur)\ **Post date:** [February 12, 2001, 2:36am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/test-thread-2/53985/11 "2001-02-12T02:36:10Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by KP235 \* > \*\*Ok, I get it. Thank you Coldfire. I’ll get the hang of all this eventually. \*\* testing > [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Coldfire \* > \*\*Replace the {} with . Then you get: \*\* still testing ---
**Author:** ![Coldfire](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/a587f6/32.png) [@Coldfire](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Coldfire)\ **Post date:** [February 12, 2001, 2:36am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/test-thread-2/53985/12 "2001-02-12T02:36:32Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by KP235 \* > \*\*Oh, by the way, should I go to the Pit and start whineing about that you closed my first test thread. Not that I want to, it just seems to be standard practice 'round here. 🙂 \*\* I’d advice against it. 😉 I closed it before I read the #2 thread. That explained your motives why you posted #1. Sorry about that - but you could still link to it, so no harm done, right? ---
**Author:** ![Mister\_Armageddon](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/858c86/32.png) [@Mister\_Armageddon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mister_Armageddon)\ **Post date:** [February 17, 2001, 7:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/test-thread-2/53985/13 "2001-02-17T19:27:15Z")
Might as well test this out here: [The Straight Dope](http://www.straightdope.com) ---
**Author:** ![Lord\_Jim](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/ecccb3/32.png) [@Lord\_Jim](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lord_Jim)\ **Post date:** [February 17, 2001, 10:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/test-thread-2/53985/14 "2001-02-17T22:03:04Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by KP235 \* > \*\*[TO #1](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?threadid=59442) Be warned! If you don’t use quotes around your URL and you use two or more in the same post, the system swallows up the text in between. _Originally posted by KP235 \* [TO #1](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?threadid=59442)_\* [/quote] See the quote above, here’s what it actually says: > [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by KP235 \* > \*\*[TO #1](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?threadid=59442) Be warned! If you don’t use quotes around your URL and you use two or more in the same post, the system swallows up the text in between. _Originally posted by KP235 \* TO #1_\* [/quote] The only difference is that I added the quotes around the URL. Jim