Question about masking URLs

[HafDun]

How do you change a URL to a text sentence in a message?

Instead of a reader seeing an unsightly URl such as http://mystupidwebsite/checkitout/231415346834.php? I want them to see " click here to be dazzled ".

 

[oldjones]

This is tricky to 'splain because when you do it right the software actually performs the cosmetics and hides the mechanism. And it automaticly makes anything into a link that starts with htt-you know-p:// etc.

To make clickable URL, you have to precede the http://… stuff with url in square brackets[] and follow it with /url also in[]. To hide the messy bit, and substitute some post-friendly wording you alter that first url in the [] to read /url[/I] again in square brackets [].

You could likely use the 'Make link' button above the window on your clickable text then paste =http:/etc into the opening [url] it inserts, but I haven't used it.

Hope it's clear. It's actually explained somewhere in the parts of TERB we visited long ago when joining and have since forgotten.

 

[HafDun]

Thanks OJ I'll give it a try later. Right now I'm basking in the good weather. What's that yellow thing up in the sky?

 

[Never Compromised]

What's that yellow thing up in the sky?

I think some researcher has launched a balloon.

 

[Rigel7]

There is an FAQ for it

Actually, this page --> https://terb.cc/vbulletin/misc.php?do=bbcode explains all the codes you can use in a message on this board. However some functions haven`t been working since the upgrade; they working on it, so one of these days it will be functional.

 

[Anynym]

You could likely use the 'Make link' button above the window on your clickable text then paste =http:/etc into the opening it inserts, but I haven't used it.... and could type in manually if you choose to.

 

[HafDun]

Thanks Anynym.

That was easy.