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When you post something , how do make a link so when you click on it , it takes you to a web page?

Say when your selling something and you have pic's of it to show.
How do you put a "Click Here" and it takes you to the web page of a pic of the item?
Instead of putting the full URL as a link,you put a work like click here.

Format is this:

<url=http://what.ever.the.complete.address.is/>Clickable text goes here</url>

Replace the "<" and ">" with the normal "[" and "]", thus:

Click this and it will take you to Yahoo!

Just testing this out...


[url=http://www.thinkwiki.org/wiki/Category:A31p/[Best thinkpad i have used to date]/url]
[url=http://www.thinkwiki.org/wiki/Category:A31p][>Best thinkpad i have used to date<]

Getting close.....
[Best thinkpad i have used to date]

Best thinkpad i have used to date

I think i got it.
Thanks alot for the help.

I find the quickest way to do this is to paste the link (url) in your post first, then add a ] to the end and type in the text you want displayed. Then with the link]displayed_text highlighted click on the URL button. Finally change the first ] right bracket to an = equal sign.

[url=http://www.google.com/]Click here to search on Google[/url]

[I disabled BBCode in this post to show the format]

Edited.

I generally type what I want the link to read such as Click Here. Then I highlight the text that I want to be clickable, and then click the "URL" button, and it makes it look like this:

[url]Click Here[/url]

Then I place my cursor after the [url, add an "=" and then paste the link, so that it looks like this:

[url=http://forum.thinkpads.com/viewforum.php?f=22]Click Here[/url]

P.S.
I disabled BBCode in this post as well.

I use the same method as tfflivemb2.

I guess there is more than one way to skin this cat.

When I can, I usually copy and paste the headline, title, or subject of the article or thead to use for the displayed text. Sometimes though, the headline or title is an image or a clickable link itself, so I can't just copy and paste.

And yet another way for this feline epidermal removal procedure....

I simply type in the and then paste in a previously saved URL or type it in if it is simple enough to remember, then add the closing ] for the opening [, type in the clickable text, followed by the closing . I don't ever use any of the BBCode buttons above the composition window since I sometimes type out of order or go back and add some emphasis (bold or italic, like I just did for the previous sentences). Pushing any of those buttons doesn't place the code where the cursor is currently at; it simply tacks it on at the end of the existing text. I code HTML using Notepad all of the time so this is the easiest way for me to do it here as well.

Pushing any of those buttons doesn't place the code where the cursor is currently at; it simply tacks it on at the end of the existing text.

If you highlight the text with your TrackPoint (or mouse equivalent), then click on the BBCode Button, the code is tacked at the beginning and end of the highlighted text. In other words if you highlight a url with the text trailing, the code is placed where it belongs. You just have to exchange the first right bracket with an equals sign and make sure you have typed in a left bracket between the url and the text.

The same thing is true with the rest of the buttons - just highlight the text or url that you want the BBCode applied to, then click on the appropriate button.

I've had no internet for a couple of days; hence this tardy response.

Thanks for that tip!. That's very useful for some one word highlights... never knew that before .