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How do i post links in messages

paw

22:58 / 28.06.02

anyone care to show me?

Trijhaos

23:19 / 28.06.02

This has been covered many a time.

[a href="http://www.barbelith.com/underground"] Barbelith Underground [/a]

Replace the [ and ] with < and >

Like so

Barbelith Underground

Less searchable M0rd4nt

07:26 / 29.06.02

Some useful tags:

<b>Whatever you want in bold type</b>
Creates bold text
<i>Whatever you want in italics</i>
Creates italic text

<a href="http://www.whatever the URL of the website is">Whatever you're calling the link</a>
Makes a link

<img src="http://www.Whatever the URL of the image is">
Inserts an image in your post

paw

16:09 / 29.06.02

thanks alot mordant and trij.

netbanshee

13:50 / 30.06.02

...it's also not a bad practice to have the link open in an new window as opposed to the current one. Use this addition in the link code, with < > to replace [ ].

[a href="http://www.barbelith.com/underground" target=_blank]Barbelith[/a]

Tom Coates

18:27 / 30.06.02

Could I ask that people try and use quotes whenever appropriate, even when not strictly necessary - ie. target="_blank". Thanks...

We're The Great Old Ones Now

20:50 / 07.07.02

Sorry, Tom, I don't understand the quotes thing.

Oh, and do html tags work in PMs now? They didn't initially.

Tom Coates

23:27 / 20.09.02

rather than like this: [a href=http://www.barbelith.com/underground target=_blank]Barbelith[/a]

like this: [a href="http://www.barbelith.com/underground" target="_blank"]Barbelith[/a]

gergsnickle

22:05 / 19.11.02

Seek and ye shall find. Thank you.

—| x |—

10:14 / 29.05.03

Tom, why the importance of making sure that we use the quotes?

grant

18:16 / 29.05.03

Without the quote marks, something about some of the pages makes the thread go all squiffy. What's worse, though, is having an opening quote without a closing quote. That makes for some really strange visuals, maaaan.

w1rebaby

01:42 / 30.05.03

Can I make a request that people not have links opening in new windows?

The reason is quite simple: with pretty much every browser, you can right-click and open a link in a new window if you want to, or not if you don't want to. This is not the case if there is a target="_blank" - you have to open in a new window. It thus reduces the amount of choice people have, particularly if they're forced to use IE at work (so can't use tabs) and don't want to have large numbers of windows on their taskbar in case the boss walks by.

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