OT: how to insert links in that forum?

Wolfgang S. wrote on 4/25/2004, 12:11 AM

How do I insert links in a posting, that they are not shown as text but as links?

And - how do I change a text to bold?

Some people show, that this is possible - but I have not seen how to do that.

Kr
Wolfgang

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Liam_Vegas wrote on 4/25/2004, 12:19 AM

You use basic html in your message.

Replace the "[]" with standard "<>" to make it work.

for instance bold will result in bold

[a href=http://www.imagebeam.com/nabstream]NAB stream[/a]

will result in
NAB stream

Wolfgang S. wrote on 4/25/2004, 12:37 AM

Thanks - the exact script code is sligthly different to the burning boards, that is why I failed here.

Kr
Wolfgang

johnmeyer wrote on 4/25/2004, 8:41 AM

This has been asked many times. Here is an answer from one of those threads:

Clickable Links

riredale wrote on 4/25/2004, 1:57 PM

What bugs me is that if I make such an underlined link, it works fine, but if I go into my post later to edit something, the link changes. Extra text is added at the "a href=" part.

Am I doing something wrong?

Chienworks wrote on 4/25/2004, 2:06 PM

That doesn't happen to me. What is the extra text that you see?

johnmeyer wrote on 4/25/2004, 2:12 PM

Yes, you are doing something wrong. Check the placement of your quotes very carefully against the example I gave in the link in my previous post. Also, check very carefull where you place the angle brackets. Finally, make sure you don't forget to the put the </a> at the end.

TorS wrote on 4/25/2004, 3:17 PM

Write your text directly in the Forum window. I have had problems when I have written text in Word and pasted it to the forum. The " didn't turn out right, making the link unusable (adding sonysomething at the beginning of it).
Tor

johnmeyer wrote on 4/25/2004, 3:29 PM

The " didn't turn out right, making the link unusable (adding sonysomething at the beginning of it).

Excellent point! Word's default behavior is to replace inch marks (") with real open and close quotes. These are totally different characters.

Chienworks wrote on 4/25/2004, 4:25 PM

Generally the quotes aren't required in hyperlinks unless you have spaces in the URL ... and you really should never put spaces in URLs. Use underscore characters instead. Then you can leave out the quotes completely.

riredale wrote on 4/25/2004, 9:35 PM

Okay, here is a link to Sony.

It looks like this (substituting [ ] for < >): [a href=http://mediasoftware.sonypictures.com/default.asp]Sony[/a].

I open my own reply to edit it, and the text has changed to this: [a target=_top href=http://mediasoftware.sonypictures.com/default.asp ]Sony[/a].

What did I forget? Do I put the link in quotes?

johnmeyer wrote on 4/25/2004, 9:44 PM

Well, I am not an HTML expert, but I always put the quotes in. This is how I would code it:

<a href="http://mediasoftware.sonypictures.com/default.asp">Sony</a>

This will work fine, and you should be able to edit it. You can copy the above line directly from this message and copy it into your own post and verify that it works, and can be edited.

Here is what the above produces, and I have gone back, using the Edit button in this forum, and verified that the coding is still intact.

Sony

riredale wrote on 4/25/2004, 10:00 PM

Nope, I tried it with quotes, and it still puts in the "target=_top" business, and when I hit the edit button my link is all screwed up.

But it's getting late, and I'm not thinking clearly. I'll look at it again tomorrow.

Chienworks wrote on 4/26/2004, 3:52 AM

I don't know why the target=_top is being put in there, but it shouldn't be a problem. That causes the link to open in the top level window if it is inside a frame. If the page isn't in a frame (and SONY forums don't use frames) then it will have absolutely no effect at all. Does the link still work if you leave it like that?

riredale wrote on 4/26/2004, 8:37 AM

Nope.

Just now I went back inside my first post and copied the altered contents. Here is how it now comes out (you'll see that the hyperlink is all screwed up and no longer works):
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Okay, here is a link to <a target=_top href="http://mediasoftware.sonypictures.com/default.asp ">Sony.

It looks like this (substituting [ ] for < >): [a href=http://mediasoftware.sonypictures.com/default.asp]Sony[/a].

I open my own reply to edit it, and the text has changed to this: [a target=_top href=http://mediasoftware.sonypictures.com/default.asp ]Sony[/a].

What did I forget? Do I put the link in quotes?

Chienworks wrote on 4/26/2004, 9:20 AM

The link is still exactly the same, as far as i can see. The only thing that has been added is the "target=_top" part, which shouldn't affect anything. You could just delete that part if you wish when editing.