Link text in posts?

[Roko Joko]

In forum posts is there a way to have the text of a link be something other than the URL?

When you click on the link button, it doesn’t seem to offer you a way to do that.

I tried

LEFT_BRACKET url=”a url here” RIGHT_BRACKET what I want the link to look like here LEFT_BRACKET SLASH url RIGHT_BRACKET

but that didn’t work.

Is there a way to do it that I’m missing?

[Charles]

Quote:

Is there a way to do it that I’m missing?

try:
OPEN SQUARE BRACKET url CLOSE SQUARE BRACKET your link here OPEN SQUARE BRACKET SLASH url CLOSE SQUARE BRACKET

edit: oh yes, there is an icon to do the heavy lifting, the ball overlaid with a paper clip, above the surprised smiley

[Roko Joko]

Thanks, and I know that way works, but I’m looking for a way to have the text of a link be something _other_ than the URL: the ‘what I want the link to look like here’ bit.

[David Scott]

I don’t think it’s possible in the forum, the auto URI linker plugin we use automatically makes any links live. It has precedence over any other linking.

[Roko Joko]

Just testing the current functionality. It looks like plain HTML, but you never know with message boards.

Link with all three things filled in:

<a href="http://www.google.com" title="This is the part in the title attribute">This is the part between the angle bracket tags</a>

This is the part between the angle bracket tags

Same link with no title attribute:

<a href="http://www.google.com">This is the part between the angle bracket tags</a>

This is the part between the angle bracket tags

First link with nothing between the angle brackets:

<a href="http://www.google.com" title="This is the part in the title attribute"></a>

First link with no attributes, just a URL between angle brackets:

<a>http://www.google.com</a>

http://www.google.com

[Roko Joko]

OK, so what’s important is
1. when you click the “link” button, the URL in the pop-up dialog. This goes into the href attribute.
2. what’s between the angle brackets.
And the title field in the pop-up is not important.

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