[Ygrec23]

Hi, Doc! I just read your post in the "introducing mods and admins" thread and found out that you're the resident "links" person.

I've got a question about links and would appreciate your either answering it or telling me where I could find the answer.

I'd love to be able, as some people can, to hide a long link-URL behind a short word, as when some people say things like "look here, here and here." How do you do that? It certainly would help shorten some of my posts.

Thanks in advance for your help!

Take care.

[DocJohn]

It's done with BB code:

http://forums.psychcentral.com/misc.php?do=bbcode#url

Hope this helps,
DocJohn

[ECHOES]

testing...

here

ETA: Works so easily! Thanks so much

[FooZe]

In all editing modes that I've tried (basic, advanced, and WYSIWYG) there's a control for inserting links. It's located above the text box and looks like this:

To use it:

1. Type in the word(s) that you want to show -- for instance, "here".

2. Locate the URL that you want to use with it and copy it to your clipboard -- for instance,
http://forums.psychcentral.com/misc.php?do=bbcode#url

3. Highlight the "here", click on the , paste your URL into the dialog box, and click [OK].

here

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edited to add:

What that button does, of course, is insert the BB Code for a link, like this:

[URL="http://forums.psychcentral.com/misc.php?do=bbcode#url"]here[/URL]

If you use one of the text editors, you see the actual BB Code tags in the text box. If you use the WYSIWYG editor you just see the result.

I put that code in a "Code:" box so my browser wouldn't show it broken into two lines.

[DocClyde]

Thank you all...been out doing errands for Mom and Dad. Glad you all have my back,

here, and here and here