but that looks stupid. I want to do it the cool way where it says “link” or whatever I want it to.
I found where it’s referenced (see below) but darned if I understand it. I gave it a few tries and didn’t get it to work.
If you’d like to be more clever, you can type the tags with quote marks: a link to Fighting Ignorance
appears as:
also - how do I do that cool thing where you type something with lines through it so it’s marked out but you can still read it. you know? I only find how to underline something and I want to have the lines through the letters.
You type your post in the normal way, then you highlight which specific words you want to be a link and click on the small globe with what appears to be a link in a chain, to the direct right of the A with a black bar underneath it.
Then you paste your link into the thingy that comes up and you’re done.
same result as before (grrrrrr) I put my link in and it looks the same. I want to put it in but then have it just SAY “link to book” or whatever - do you see what I mean?
I already CAN post the link, I want to make it say what I want it to.
You misunderstand me, probably because I wasn’t more clear.
Don’t post the link, that’s not what I mean by normally. Write your post exactly how you want it to look, then highlight whichever word/s you want to contain the link, then press the world/link button thingy and paste your URL.
If you want to show BB code in order to explain it, you can also use the “noparse” tags.
Like, if I wanted to show the correct way to code a link into a word.
[noparse]
[noparse]
The first word after the colon will be a link: Google.
[/noparse][/noparse]
That will display thus:
The first word after the colon will be a link: Google.
(Note that in order to show the “noparse” tags I used them twice, nested on the same line. If you use them only once, they are not displayed, but if you use them twice the non-displayed ones will show as whitespace.)
That’s the manual way to code a link into text. The GUI shortcut is to outline the word or piece of text you want to transform into a hyperlink then click the button marked with a globe and a sideways paperclip and then enter the location you want to link to. It’s under the smiley dropdown menu and if you keep your mouse over it, the mouseover text reads “Insert Link.”