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Reception => Tech Know How => Topic started by: Ploshkin on March 12, 2017, 15:09:07 PM

Title: Hyperlink thingies
Post by: Ploshkin on March 12, 2017, 15:09:07 PM
Could someone please explain how you replace the long http...... bit with just a word or phrase when inserting a link.  I used to be able to do it on TSF but I've just attempted to do one, all full of confidence but it hasn't worked.  The link is fine it just wasn't replaced with my chosen words
I hope I'm making sense, my brain doesn't have the IT bit.
Title: Re: Hyperlink thingies
Post by: SkoutSews on March 12, 2017, 16:04:45 PM
Ploshkin, thanks for asking this, I can't find how to do it either  :[
Title: Re: Hyperlink thingies
Post by: Francesca on March 12, 2017, 16:39:22 PM
Code: [Select]
[url=http://www.bbc.co.uk]The BBC Homepage[/url]
Displays like: The BBC Homepage (http://www.bbc.co.uk)

 :D
Title: Re: Hyperlink thingies
Post by: UttaRetch on March 12, 2017, 21:43:28 PM
 0_0  0_0 I've printed out the coding and it's just by my keyboard.  I will never remember the string (did it wrong for the photos of small town America thread), but I like to make tidy posts.
Title: Re: Hyperlink thingies
Post by: Francesca on March 12, 2017, 21:45:28 PM
0_0  0_0 I've printed out the coding and it's just by my keyboard.  I will never remember the string (did it wrong for the photos of small town America thread), but I like to make tidy posts.

It's easier than the PR way, which is a bit messy. (It's actually the correct way to write a link, as in, the above url thing we do here converts into the PR way as that is how links are properly written, but it seems too complicated for most so I have no idea why she did it that way).
Title: Re: Hyperlink thingies
Post by: Vegegrow on March 13, 2017, 07:05:48 AM
I like to be able to do this.. but I'm a computer dunce

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Code: [Select]
[url=http://www.bbc.co.uk]The BBC Homepage[/url]
Displays like: The BBC Homepage (http://www.bbc.co.uk)

 :D
But I don't understand the reply
Where do I find a code button/ select button and then do I paste in the link and type the alternative wording after it
Title: Re: Hyperlink thingies
Post by: Francesca on March 13, 2017, 07:24:24 AM
I like to be able to do this.. but I'm a computer dunce

.But I don't understand the reply
Where do I find a code button/ select button and then do I paste in the link and type the alternative wording after it

You don't need a button, you can just type the red text.
Title: Re: Hyperlink thingies
Post by: Vegegrow on March 13, 2017, 07:40:26 AM
Please Miss what red text?
Title: Re: Hyperlink thingies
Post by: UttaRetch on March 13, 2017, 08:06:49 AM
There is no red text, Vege.  Just type the example that Fran has given you exactly as a demo to see how it should work. You can then substitute the weblink of your choice with the text you want it to represent.
Title: Re: Hyperlink thingies
Post by: Francesca on March 13, 2017, 08:09:36 AM
Please Miss what red text?

In the little example I wrote the text was red.

Like this:

Code: [Select]
[url=http://www.BBC.co.uk]The BBC Homepage[/url]
Title: Re: Hyperlink thingies
Post by: Vegegrow on March 13, 2017, 08:21:51 AM
BBC Newspage (http://www.bbc.co.uk/news)


Yah I did it... Just copied it symbol for symbol... ps there no red text anywhere on this thread  for me.. I'm sure I'm not colour blind
Title: Re: Hyperlink thingies
Post by: UttaRetch on March 13, 2017, 08:35:17 AM
@Francesca: it all becomes clear now.  I didn't see red either.  Might there be a glitch in the coding?
Title: Re: Hyperlink thingies
Post by: Ploshkin on March 13, 2017, 11:30:26 AM
You're not all going colour blind - it is red on my Kindle but black on the PC.  Thank you Fran and tose of you who still didn't understand because I didn't either.  I'm going to give it a go on another thread & see what happens.
Title: Re: Hyperlink thingies
Post by: Francesca on March 13, 2017, 11:37:33 AM
Hmm odd, its red for me regardless of device! Phone, laptop... Always red!

Apologies for confusing everyone!
Title: Re: Hyperlink thingies
Post by: BrendaP on March 13, 2017, 13:20:08 PM
It's black on my laptop using Firefox, but red using the same laptop with Safari, so obviously a browser oddity.

Thanks for the instructions though, I think I managed a proper link in my previous post  in the stash sewalong thread.
Title: Re: Hyperlink thingies
Post by: Lantana on March 17, 2017, 19:20:18 PM
BBC Newspage (http://www.bbc.co.uk/news)


Yah I did it... Just copied it symbol for symbol... ps there no red text anywhere on this thread  for me.. I'm sure I'm not colour blind

Did you HAVE to do that Vegegrow!

Oh ok it wasn't your fault ... resposibility for my own actions and all that. I've banned myself from going anywhere near news and current affairs programmes/sites but like a numpty pressed on the link to see if it worked and got Trump on my screen.  I'm going to need  :toast: to get over the trauma!

Anyway thanks to Fran for explaining all that .... not sure i've got it but at least I'll know which thread to come to when my brain is better engaged!

L X
Title: Re: Hyperlink thingies
Post by: Vegegrow on March 17, 2017, 20:16:05 PM
Did you HAVE to do that Vegegrow!

Oh ok it wasn't your fault ... resposibility for my own actions and all that. I've banned myself from going anywhere near news and current affairs programmes/sites but like a numpty pressed on the link to see if it worked and got Trump on my screen.  I'm going to need  :toast: to get over the trauma!

L X

Apologies Lantana sending  :gin: :gin: :gin: :gin: :gin:
Title: Re: Hyperlink thingies
Post by: Lantana on March 17, 2017, 21:58:04 PM
Thankyou  :flower: :flower:
Title: Re: Hyperlink thingies
Post by: Lady Violet on March 21, 2017, 16:48:44 PM
A bit late to the party I know, but does this mean if it does not appear as red text (which mine does not) will it not work?
Title: Re: Hyperlink thingies
Post by: UttaRetch on March 21, 2017, 16:52:31 PM
The red text was to draw our attention in how to make the link.  Some people, myself included, couldn't see the red.  If you practice the hyperlink as Fran has demonstrated, you will see how it works.
Title: Re: Hyperlink thingies
Post by: Lady Violet on March 21, 2017, 16:57:43 PM
Thanks I will have to keep practising  ;)


Title: Re: Hyperlink thingies
Post by: sewmuchmore on March 21, 2017, 17:28:43 PM
[url]http://www.urbanthreads.com
 :'( just practicing as it seems i am reading a foreign language. No idea what i am doing but it obviously hasn't worked so sorry everyone you may have to live with the full hyperlink thingies in my posts.
Title: Re: Hyperlink thingies
Post by: UttaRetch on March 21, 2017, 17:54:12 PM
urban threads (http://www.urbanthreads.com)

Instead of the closed square bracket, you should have put = and to make a 'short form', write the description followed by [/url].  Give it another go.
Title: Re: Hyperlink thingies
Post by: sewmuchmore on March 21, 2017, 18:06:00 PM
= http://www.urbanthreads.com[url]
I am giving up now and going for a   :gin:
Title: Re: Hyperlink thingies
Post by: UttaRetch on March 21, 2017, 18:48:34 PM
Okay, see this

(http://i.imgur.com/X2xoRNz.png)

The next hurdle will be placing the short link where you want it in the sentence.  Took me a while to master that.  0_0
Title: Re: Hyperlink thingies
Post by: Francesca on March 21, 2017, 19:25:58 PM
UttaRetch's description is pretty good, not sure I can add much!
Title: Re: Hyperlink thingies
Post by: Lady Violet on March 21, 2017, 19:42:06 PM
Ah! Now I see, just need to figure out how to insert it into a sentence.  :)