How to post link to another thread?

[nhrenee]

For some reason I can't figure this out. Sometimes I can best answer someone's question by posting a link to a current or archived thread.

Help!
TIA,
Renee

 

[Chris C]

Here you are Renee...

There are a couple of ways you can do it....

&#91url=http://64.225.125.24/forums/showthread.php?s=&threadid=26576]Hyper Text Link[/url]
Equals this.... Hyper Text Link

To just display the URL....

&#91url]http://64.225.125.24/forums/showthread.php?s=&threadid=26576[/url]
Equals this... http://64.225.125.24/forums/showthread.php?s=&threadid=26576

Hope that helps!

I changed the colors in the first link to show you where you to insert your own URL and Title for your link.

 

[nhrenee]

Thanks Chris!

What exactly is hypertext anyway?

 

[albiats]

Since this is a general question, I'll try to help answer it for you -

Hypertext is a major part of the World Wide Web (www) methodology.

It's part of the addressing and display system used to display Web Pages.

When you look at a Web Address, the address starts with the letters 'HTTP', an acronym for HyperText Transfer Protocol. It's how the characters in a Web page are transmitted over the Internet from the Website back to your PC.

The HyperText portion of it represents the method the characters are stored on the page and allows you to 'click here' to 'go there'. It provides the programmer coding that is stored behind the underlined link. It allows you to provide a link in a page that can take you to a different location on the same page, somewhere else on the same Website, or even to another Website somewhere else altogether.

The programming language that is used for the links is called 'HTML', which stands for 'HyperText Markup Language', and it provides for the tags and descriptors that make the Webpages look more interesting and provide the rules for coding them.

If you're interested in reading about how the World Wide Web was created, here's a HyperText Link to more info:

History of the World Wide Web

Hope that helps.

 

[albiats]

Here's the lazy way that I add HyperText Links to posts:

I'll end up by providing a link to the post that LisaTX had that gives instructions on how to cut and paste in Internet explorer:

First, go to the post that you want to provide a link to.

Click on the right side of the address bar just behind the last characters, so that the entire address is highlighted. You could also use your mouse and click once at the beginning and then click and hold across the address to 'select' it.

Right click on it, after it is highlighted, and select the 'Copy' command from the menu that is displayed.

Now go to your post that you want to provide a link in. Place the cursor after your current text by clicking once.

Now look above your reply in the 'VB Code' section and click on the button marked 'http://'. This will bring up a small dialog box that says 'Enter the text to be displayed for the link, optional)'. This is where I put a description of the link I'm providing, in this case, I'll put in 'Lisa's Cut and Paste Thread'. Then I click on Ok.

Now another dialog box pops up and it says 'Enter the full URL for the link' and it is NOT optional. The first few characters are already highlighted so whatever I put in will just overwrite what's there. Now I just do a right click and then select the 'Paste' command and it fills in all of the address characters that I previously copied into the box. Then click on Ok and you're all finished.

This method uses the buttons and what is called a script to place the address of the thread I want to refer to and also an optional title into the post for me.

Now, here's a link to the thread I mentioned earlier :
Lisa's Cut and Paste Thread

And that's another method of doing it.

 

[*Fantasia*]

Here's the lazy way that I add HyperText Links to posts:

Sorry...just trying to learn how to do links myself. I have often been curious how this works. Sorry if I used your thread...but all the infos I need is here. I hope you don't mind. Thanks!!

Well...here goes nothing!!

 

[*Fantasia*]

albiats -learn how to do links

Ok...it didn't work...well...let's see this one!

 

[*Fantasia*]

Yahoo....I did it!! A big pat on my back!! I can't believe it...I learned all this in just 15 minute!! What a way to go!!! See...I learn everyday!!

Thanks guys for the help!!