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How to make clickable links

posted 8 years ago by AtomicReturns (1252)
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I think this is how it's done. Enter your URL in the first part, then enter your text in the second:

Template (remove the spaces EXCEPT for the A HREF part):
< A HREF = "http://the.webpage.com"; > Name of webpage here < /A >

Taken from this brief tutorial:
http://www.boardhost.com/help/tutorials/html.html

This is my test. Welcome to the Bates Motel boards

- Your URL must have "http://" in front of it to work
- Text part can be anything. The URL itself, or even a whole sentence, Mr. Anderson.

[–] 9 (1235) 8 years ago

[–] AtomicReturns (1252) 8 years ago

^^ That's odd. I feel that should turn clickable. Everything is there and the spaces were removed.

I honestly don't know much about this lol. My own original post had errors and I had to edit it four times.

Maybe somebody else can help out and tell us why 9's link is not clickable?

[–] 9 (1235) 8 years ago

[–] AtomicReturns (1252) 8 years ago

No problem. :)

Out of curiosity, how did you make it not clickable? Every character seems to be in place. I feel dense right now. It's probably right in front of my face but I'm not seeing it.

[–] 9 (1235) 8 years ago

[–] Iain (32) 8 years ago

Thanks for the information.

My first post on this site is now corrected and works well with this HTML format code.

[–] 9 (1235) 8 years ago

[–] Sandman3 (1453) 8 years ago

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[–] klownz (478) 8 years ago

What a complete and utter pain in the ass

Edit attempt 2:

What a complete and utter pain in the ass

Edit attempt 3:

What a complete and utter pain in the ass

[–] AtomicReturns (1252) 8 years ago

"What a complete and utter pain in the ass."

I'm sorry you feel that way about me. But more importantly, were you able to make the links clickable?

(Edit) -- I see it works! (and lol at the movie it links to).

Yes, it does feel like a minor headache at first, but we really only need to enter two things into the template (URL; text).

I had to put spaces in the Template because it kept forcing itself to look like a link every time.

[–] klownz (478) 8 years ago

LOL! Yea it worked in the end. Will just take me a while to remember because i am so used to forums that usually do the way.

[–] wheelin176 (2054) 8 years ago

me 2

[–] 9 (1235) 8 years ago

[–] AtomicReturns (1252) 8 years ago

lol

[–] jim (137) 8 years ago

Yep, that's accurate. Thanks for posting and letting others know. I've disabled all other html tags for now (like images, videos, etc.), but links are allowed.

However, please exercise caution when clicking on a link. The name of the link doesn't necessarily equal the name of the website. For example, below I have included a link named "http://google.com"; but it actually takes you to "http://yahoo.com";. You can hover your mouse over the link before clicking on it to see where it's really taking you. Hopefully this isn't a problem, but you never know!

http://google.com

[–] 9 (1235) 8 years ago

[–] AtomicReturns (1252) 8 years ago

That's a good point. I'll definitely watch out for those trolls who try to make us click something, and it leads us to a bad place. They try to steal your IP address, or even worse, they find your real address...heard about that happening on the IMDB boards, in places like the Walking Dead and Game of Thrones forums.

Good PSA for others. Double check the actual destination before clicking anything.

[–] whiskeyTango-06 (383) 8 years ago

what's a mouse? :)

[–] neverstandinalone (641) 8 years ago

Oh, the days of just writing with a pencil..

[–] 9 (1235) 8 years ago

[–] AtomicReturns (1252) 8 years ago

Hah.

There are many sites out there, but this is probably the best one:

MovieChat.org

Jim: "Checks in the mail, Atomic!"

[–] DreamersxDisease (817) 8 years ago

Beware the blue text!!

No, but really, I am too lazy for this...haha, but I don't feel like I'll need to be doing it that much anyways.
Thanks for the help though, I'm sure many people have been scrambling to figure it out!

[–] wheelin176 (2054) 8 years ago

I'm not lazy but I'm thick. I still don't get it.

before.......after

what's before and after url?

[–] DreamersxDisease (817) 8 years ago

Youtube ....nice, it worked.

I'd suggest you just copy and paste this -
< a href="http://moviechat.org">MovieChat.org < /a> but just make sure there are no spaces around the

[–] DreamersxDisease (817) 8 years ago

no spaces around the a> stuff...and then put in whatever link you want (non-trollish though, please)

wow...for some weird reason it wouldn't let me include that in my last post and would cut it off. Wtf??

[–] StyxNyx (862) 8 years ago

It's the script on the site. Certain symbols will make your post disappear...or part of it. Found out about that on another topic I was in.

[–] 9 (1235) 8 years ago

[–] wheelin176 (2054) 8 years ago

The way it was....I think.

(url)........(url/)

[–] wheelin176 (2054) 8 years ago

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[–] wheelin176 (2054) 8 years ago

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[–] 9 (1235) 8 years ago

[–] wheelin176 (2054) 8 years ago

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[–] DreamersxDisease (817) 8 years ago

< a href="http://moviechat.org">MovieChat.org

Just copy and paste that, but instead of moviechat put in some other site to try it out. Make sure there is no spacing.

NASA

^ for that I took out moviechat.org and put in nasa.gov and in the description just put NASA.

[–] 9 (1235) 8 years ago

[–] Popcorn Kernel (2368) 8 years ago

Is all HTML enabled on here?
Like colored fonts and font size and flashing gifs and stuff? (dear god no)

I think clickable links are useful but there are risks, like when people mess up their code or forget to close their tags, it affects every reply under it. I already saw one thread where everything below a certain reply had italics because of an unclosed tag. I posted the closing tag and fixed the rest of the thread, but there is still 4 or 5 replies with unintentional italics.
Especially allowing table tags, are a very bad idea. Mistakes with table cell tags can totally mess up threads and can put other people's replies inside someone else's post.

[–] Popcorn Kernel (2368) 8 years ago

I just saw jim's post saying " I've disabled all other html tags for now (like images, videos, etc.), but links are allowed. "

very wise! and thank you.

[–] 9 (1235) 8 years ago

[–] arvin g borkar (2854) 8 years ago

I hope it becomes easier than this. I am trying to make my first clickable link and even this is a bit confusing. I liked the IMDb way of putting quotes around whatever it was and it made it clickable. :/

[–] wheelin176 (2054) 8 years ago

We don't 'have' to do it. I agree conffusing