[pachyderm]

I notice that some links in messages on Psych Central lead directly to the page linked, replacing the P.C. page, while others open a new browser window in addition to the P.C. one. Looking at the Source code shows the difference in HTML coding, but I don't see how to do that from the usual Reply window (Instant UBB Code). Is there a way?

Here is an example of a link which opens a new page:

Fight AIDS

and here is one which does not open a new page:

Healing Through Books: Bibliotherapy

I guess you will have to look at the Source to see how these differ in coding!

[katheryn]

i right click and say open new window or tab with most links

uh..

how do you replace the 'http://forums...' type links with the words that link to it?

and...

how do you embed youtube vids or pictures in posts?

sorry i'm so technologically incompetent..

[katheryn]

you tube is the easy one on the page where the song is there is a embeded code you use this in your post

pics are a diferant matter most use a site to host pics from imageshack or photobucket are the ones i like you can either upload a pic to there site and use the link they provide or search for a pic on the site which has allready been uploaded, sometimes finding the right link takes time so previewing posts help

sorry cant help you with altering links with words

[pachyderm]

> i right click and say open new window or tab with most links

That's a useful way to open a new window with any link -- but it doesn't answer the question that I posed. Do posters who supply links that automatically open new windows know the code to do that and enter that into their messages?

Alex: to include a picture, first you have to know the Psych Central URL of the picture (I have trouble getting that right) that you have uploaded here, then given that URL you put this into your message when composing it:

[image]URL[/image]

[Perna]

Pachy, one can use UBB or HTML here but I think only the HTML has "target=new" that you need to make a new window:

Healing Through Books: Bibliotherapy

Here's the code, typed by hand:

[pachyderm]

That is different from the code I have seen (for instance for the AIDS link):

target="_blank" instead of target="new"

[Perna]

There's several target choices, windows can be confusing. I probably got my style sheet targets mixed up with simple HTML as I had to do style sheets and frames and stuff for several classes and it was probably the easiest one for me to remember :-) _blank works fine and is probably more correct for this usage.

Here's the formal stuff: http://www.w3.org/TR/css3-hyperlinks/