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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.

[–] arvin g borkar (2854) 8 years ago

What am I doing wrong here?

< A HREF = "http://www.moviechat.org/movies/general/posts/58aeff02be56fd001151fa4f"; > Things That Need To Be Added < /A >

[–] wheelin176 (2054) 8 years ago

Spaces? There should be zero spaces in the link.

[–] arvin g borkar (2854) 8 years ago

Let me try without.

Things That Need To Be Added

[–] arvin g borkar (2854) 8 years ago

Well I was able to get the page name up, however, it is not clickable. lol

Imagine that. I did all that work, above, just to get it to spell out "Things That Need To Be Added", when I could have just written that out.

[–] 9 (1235) 8 years ago

[–] arvin g borkar (2854) 8 years ago

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[–] arvin g borkar (2854) 8 years ago

Things That Need To Be Added

[–] arvin g borkar (2854) 8 years ago

Wow, your example was easier to follow.

[–] Babestation (163) 8 years ago

Google Test

[–] Babestation (163) 8 years ago

Thanks genius ^^

[–] Babestation (163) 8 years ago

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[–] hka-3 (28) 8 years ago

Thanks for the info! I was just wondering about this. Already tested it out in the TCM thread and it worked. I accidentally took out the space in "A HREF" and it didn't work, then realized the space needed to be there, lol. I used to know a lot of this stuff, but haven't used it in about a decade.

[–] StyxNyx (862) 8 years ago

Same here. I built a website back in 2001 and that's about the last time I've used HTML.

[–] StyxNyx (862) 8 years ago

Oh man, it's been ages since I've done HTML so I'm a little rusty. Thanks for posting this Atomic! 😊

[–] StyxNyx (862) 8 years ago

MovieChat.org

[–] StyxNyx (862) 8 years ago

Yaaay it worked! Now I must memorize it...that's the hard part. I better "condition" myself...lol. 😉

[–] izik79 (31) 8 years ago

test.com

[–] TheFarsideObserver (155) 8 years ago

https://www.youtube.com/

[–] Cornelia123 (784) 8 years ago

I keep trying it but can't get it to work.

I'm trying to link, as a test, this:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E6TzlxfGK8k

[–] 9 (1235) 8 years ago

[–] Cornelia123 (784) 8 years ago

MovieChat.org

[–] Cornelia123 (784) 8 years ago

Okay, let me try:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E6TzlxfGK8k

[–] izik79 (31) 8 years ago

Yay, wtg Cornelia! :-)

[–] Cornelia123 (784) 8 years ago

Yay thanks! It worked!!!!

It's far more complicating that the imdb linking system though. I was used to just typing whatever

[–] 9 (1235) 8 years ago

[–] Cornelia123 (784) 8 years ago

Yeah, no doubt in the future it will get sorted. It's not that important anyway.

[–] jmcd2007 (424) 8 years ago

Jim must have a heart of steel (I mean that in a good way, of course)! As I went to bed last night, I lied there for a couple of minutes wondering if he gets any rest! Because everybody needs that every now and then!

[–] Gubbio (3893) 8 years ago

Thanks for that. I tried it, and it works!

TEST OF CLICKABLE LINK