inserting hyperlinks

[sam moore]

Can anyone tell me how I insert a hyperlink into a message I
reply to here in the MECH? All I can do now is type the web address.
Thanks!

[mairving]

Look here for how to use VB code.

You can also use HTML like so:
<a href="http://link">Link</a>

[sam moore]

Simply Marvelous Mairving!
It really makes one feel goooooood, when ya learn sompin
new. Of coarse I'll have ta read over it a few times ta get the hang of it cause I find with age , I don't seem ta pick things up quite as good as I useta.
Many Thanks

[plovex2]

like this??

[plovex2]

you can email me here

[reboot]

not quite.
For email, you only need to type the email addy, and the VB code will see that it's an email addy, and make it a hyperlink thus: reboot@pcmech.com
Simply typing a URL like this: http://www.pemech.com also creates a hyperlink.
You can also do it this way (try to edit this post to see how I did it) PCMech

[sam moore]

quite interesting! As long as an application has a VB code and it is on, an email address,or a URL typed out will be inserted as hypertext. If I type a email address fred@ade.net (and later use the name) freda it too becomes hyper?

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Moderator note: Your email address was edited out, I didnt think you'd enjoy spam on your account.

[sam moore]

evidently not , cause it didn't work. But would it have if it had been a URL?

[reboot]

VB code looks for "http://" and assumes that's a hyperlink.
If it sees two words on either side of an "@" it's assumed as an email link.
It's not intuitive enough to think that just because you typed "freda" it's going to make a link. If it did, every time that was typed by anyone, it would link, and that's NOT what you want.

[sam moore]

I've got ya on the email and URL's, but what about the PCMECH?
If I use http://www.pcworld.com , and then later use PCWORLD ,it becomes hyper?

[sam moore]

Nope. Has ( it got something to do with parenthesis?) PCMECH

[sam moore]

I'm guessed out on how you did the PCMECH as a hyper.

[reboot]

Just try to edit my post and look and see how I did it.

[Statica]

Originally posted by sam moore I'm guessed out on how you did the PCMECH as a hyper.

<"http://www.pcmech.com/">Click here to visit PCMECH</A>

will give you:

Click here to visit PCMECH

[mairving]

You can also do:
<a href="mailto:me@pcmech.com">Send Email</a>

Which yields this:
Send Email

[reboot]

You cheater Statica. I used VB code to do mine. I wasn't going to get into HTML lessons ;D

[Statica]

Originally posted by reboot You cheater Statica. I used VB code to do mine. I wasn't going to get into HTML lessons ;D

You know me 'boot .. I like to give out the source code & I like stuff of which I can see the source code .. not software that tells us that this is the way its to be done
I can see Mairving believing in the same (lost) cause..

[mairving]

Originally posted by Statica I can see Mairving believing in the same (lost) cause..

True

[sam moore]

Well you guys have defnitely got it together!I never really got into books (my loss), I liked seeing and then trying for myself.
<"http:http://www.geocities.com/goldiethoma...titlepage.html"/>
click here to see my favorite car and it's in CANADA ! I guess
it's still there. I hope this worked.................

[sam moore]

what did I do wrong?????? Why did the link appear as I had written it? There's more to this than meets the IIIIII!

[mairving]

Here is the format again:
<a href="http://link.htm">Link</a>
which yields this:
Link

You may have mixed VB code which basically just formats the link into HTML for you. If you use VB code, you would do [url="http://link.htm"]Link[/url

I left the trailing bracket off of the closing /url so that it would show up here.

[sam moore]

Mairving, does the ( link.htm">) and the ( link) have to be
the same word for it to work?

[mairving]

Originally posted by sam moore Mairving, does the ( link.htm">) and the ( link) have to be the same word for it to work?

Nope.

[Miz]

Or on the reply page, you could just click on the little button that has "http://" on it, enter the text, click OK, enter the URL, click OK and it's all done for you.

[sam moore]

Thanks MIZ!
I don't know why I'd never clicked in that box before. But it seems by going through the posts, I think I've picked up a better
understanding of how it works.
Preciate all of yall!!!!!!

[young&dumb]

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