OT: How the heck do I make a link here?

Shane Jensen wrote on 3/29/2006, 1:59 PM
I can't for the life of me figure out how to make hyperlinks here and it's driving me crazy. HTML doesn't work, VBB doesn't work. What does work? How are you guys creating these links here? And why the heck isn't this information listed in the FAQ? The FAQ here is totally useless.

Excuse me for this, but this is really frustrating me.

Comments

Jessariah67 wrote on 3/29/2006, 2:27 PM
It is HTML...

< a href="http://www.xyz.com"> Link text < /a> (just take out the space after the initial bracket and "a" and the "/")

Also - if you throw in: target="_blank" right after the url, it will open in a new window and keep the forum page in tact.
Chienworks wrote on 3/29/2006, 2:44 PM
HTML works perfectly fine for links, underline, italics, and bold. Since you were trying to make a link and you mention HTML, i would assume you know the proper HTML syntax for links. What did you try to do that didn't work?

<a href=http://www.vegasusers.com/>VegasUsers</a> results in VegasUsers
craftech wrote on 3/29/2006, 3:29 PM
I wrote a little tutorial last year.

John
johnmeyer wrote on 3/29/2006, 11:09 PM
And here's my usual:

To create a link, you type this:
<a href="http://www.google.com">Google Main Page</a>
and that creates this:

Google Main Page


To open that link in a new window, you type this:
<a href="http://www.google.com/" target="_blank">Google Main Page</a>
to get this:

Google Main Page


How do I include HTML characters in my post so that they show up as chacters rather than generate HTML code?

You use the HTML ampersand (&) codes in place of the character itself. For instance, to get the

<

to appear, but not be interpreted as HTML, you type

&#38

If you type this, and then submit your post to the Sony forum, all you will get is the

<

character, and it will NOT be interpreted as HTML code. You then do this for every other special character in the HTML syntax.

Now, don't even think of asking me how I got &#38 to appear above instead of just the < character.

Here are many of the codes
 &#38 &
&#34 "
&#47 / slash
&#48- &#57; digits 0-9
&#58 : colon
&#59 ; semicolon
&#60 < less-than sign
&#61 = equals sign
&#62 > greater-than sign
&#63 ? question mark
&#64 @ at sign
&#65- &#90; uppercase letters A-Z
&#91 [ left square bracket
&#92 \ backslash
&#93 ] right square bracket
&#94 ^ caret
&#95 _ horizontal bar (underscore)
&#96 ` grave accent
&#97- &#122; lowercase letters a-z
&#123 { left curly brace
&#124 | vertical bar
&#8226 bullet



Grazie wrote on 3/29/2006, 11:18 PM
For about 3 years I've had/held a tiny Notepad file on my Desktop, in which I keep the formats for this stuff. But lateley, I open the (this is in IE) View>Source option and a Notepad session is started automatically and I can "see" the code on a given page, of something I like and all I do then is copy and paste from there into . .er . .here! - Easy peasy!

. . or . .now that John has described what he does, make his/this page a favourite and open and copy paste from there!

Grazie