Can one of you computer experts give instructions on how to create a clickable link like the ones I see often on this forum?

-- novice (thank_y@so.much), January 11, 2000

Answers

Just put [a href="weblink"] in front of the web link, and [/a] after it. Replace the [ and ] above with < and >, and "weblink" with the link address you want to link to. Example: [a href="http://www.cnn.com"]CNN News[/a] would link to CNN (remember to replace the [ and ] with < and >.

-- RPGman (tripix@olypen.com), January 11, 2000.

It take a small piece of html code. Where you see a "[" or a "]", you'll need to substitute 'less than' or 'greater than' symbol (little sideways v's located using shift-comma and shift-period. Where I use URL, replace with the web address. Where I put LINKTEXT replace with the title of the link.

[a href="URL"]LINKTEXT[/a]

Like Gary North Article Peace, Mike

-- Mike (mike@noemail.net), January 11, 2000.

rpgman,

ya just beat me. damn.

-- Mike (mike@noemail.net), January 11, 2000.

First, since this page is "html", I need to explain that certain characters will not print directly... Therefore, I will need to use alternate characters. The two that are a major problem are the less than and greater than (like sideways v at the bottom of your keyboard). Less than has the point of the vee to the left; greater than has the point of the vee to the right. I will use [LT] to replace the less than character and [GT] to replace the greater than character. The code for a hyperlink is:

[LT]A HREF="http://link.address"[GT]text[LT]/A[GT]

Where link.address is the link address and text is the text you want to click on for the link.

Example:

[LT]A HREF="http://www.drudgereport.com"[GT]Drudge Report[LT]/A[GT]

which, if properly executed, should yield:

Drudge Report

-- Mad Monk (madmonk@hawaiian.net), January 11, 2000.

Hey Novice - go to your top menu line, and select View/PageSource or the equivalent, while this page is being displayed. Then look at what the Drudge Report link looks like with the funny characters before and after, and key it in that way. Don't try to understand the instructions about what does and doesn't print, and when to replace one character with another (well, it always confused ME!).

-- bw (home@puget.sound), January 11, 2000.

thanks to all I'll give it a try!

SHANIA

wah hoo!!

-- novice (thank_y@so.much), January 11, 2000.

let me try again

SHANIA

-- novice (thank_y@so.much), January 11, 2000.

I must be an idiot!!

Let me try again:(

thank_y@so.much), January 11, 2000.

Novice...looking at your source code, you almost got it right, but on the first one, your "a href" got mixed up, and the second attempt, you just typed "a ref"..got to get them all just right...try again, your almost there!!!

-- Jay Urban (Jayho99@aol.com), January 11, 2000.

SHANIA

SHANIA

-- novice (thank_y@so.much), January 11, 2000.

There you go, buckaroo!!! Are you a fan, or what?

-- Jay Urban (Jayho99@aol.com), January 11, 2000.

Jay knew what the problem was by looking at the source, like I recommended. It's a good way to see what people are doing with HTML. And we all feel stupid, part of the time; that's when you're learning.

-- bw (home@puget.sound), January 11, 2000.

Jay,

Thanks! I'm not a big fan of Shania, although she is pleasing to the eyes. I was just trying to find something to practice linking with.

I use internet explorer so I don't see the view page source at the top of my screen that bw was talking about. Know anything about that?

thanks again.

-- novice (thank_y@so.much), January 11, 2000.

place your cursor somewhere in the middle of the text field on the screen and click the right side button on your mouse (commonly called "right-clicking"). A dialogue box should pop up with several different options, one of them being "view source"....click on that one and the screen will suddenly change to the raw html code that is going on "behind the scene" of the forum. It may look a little abstruse, but thats what makes it all happen!!

-- Jay Urban (Jayho99@aol.com), January 11, 2000.

novice,

I'm using IE, too. At the very top, left-side there are these headings: file, edit, view, go, favorites, and help. Click view, and you will see a drop-down list, one of the list items is called Source. Click that. Have fun!

-- (RUOK@yesiam.com), January 11, 2000.

Hot Links, Links -- don't need no stinking hot links.
Ever heard of copy and paste?
Unless you know HTML, don't do hotlinks or other tags at home.

Poster: copy (Ctrl-C) from "Location" window and paste(Ctrl-V) into your text.

Reader: copy (Ctrl-C) from text and paste(Ctrl-V) into your "Location" window.

-- A (A@AisA.com), January 11, 2000.

Just trying it for myself ...

dflet@succeed.net), January 11, 2000.

Just trying it for myself ...

This post

-- Doug Fletcher (dflet@succeed.net), January 11, 2000.

Now I'll give it a try:

Petroleum Markets forum

-- Bruce (can@rookie.do it?), January 12, 2000.