There is an ongoing problem within the forum in that if you post a link to another thread the link will not work if you just click on it. Hopefully our hosts are working on the problem, but in the interm there is an easy way to make the link work:
1: Highlight the link. I’m going to state the obvious here because there are still those computer dinosaurs out there (like me) who find that the ‘obvious’ isn’t always very obvious. To highlight the link, place your cursor at the beginning of the link, hold down the left mouse button and draw the cursor across the link until it is all highlighted in blue. Let go of the left mouse button. Be careful not to highlight anything else in the post.
2: With your cursor over the highlighted link, right click the link. You will get a menu box in which the top option is “Open Link”. Left click on that. Voila! The link will open!!!
I just posted a similar message on another thread (actually it was much more flipant) so if you are reading this twice I apologise.
Dave (the computer dinosaur and proud of it!!!).
Edit: Feb 15, 9:24pm. I should have mentioned that I am using Firefox. As others state in the following posts, the procedure may differ with other browsers.
That command is browser specific. I have an add-on in Firefox that allows for this, but then the link must be written correctly othersies even the add-on will not recognize it as a link.
Here are two links, I will just type them in and we will see what it does:
I can see just as typing them the first switched into a link and the second did not.
Now if you want to highlight some text and turn that into a link you can use the link command above, but then you MUST put a correct link in the second box. (Old forum used to be the first box. Go Figure)
Right click on the second link with Firefox does show the second up to be a link, where as other text it will not react to. So if it does not work, be sure that you are writing a valid HTML link.
.aspx is not a valid HTML extension. It works with the right click/open URL command because my Firefox addon recognizes it as such, where as the code in the Fourm does not.
It works across the internet because the internet ignores everything after the / after the .com or whatever. So there the .aspx the .html or anything elses is not part of the URL address. The computer receiving the message either knows what this is or it does not.
Internet servers also ignore everything before th @ symbol. So if you are looking at an URL address with an @ sign in, know that everything in front of it is trashed. so a url
What I’ve found out is: It doesn’t matter what method you use to create a hyperlink on the forum - i.e. [url] brackets, insert/edit link, or pressing ENTER. Sometimes the hyperlink feature works; sometimes it doesn’t.
I wish Kalmbach would address some of the inconsistencies and bugs with the new upgrade…but I’m not holding my breath.
Given that I play with HTML, I have gotten pretty good with making links. The way to make sure the link works is this: Using the Tools menu, click Source Code then type in the new window the following sequence: < (the less than sign), a, space, href=" (quote mark) then the full site address of the file you are linking to (including the http://. This is eveything located in the address bar.), " (quote mark), > (greater than sign). and then whatever you want to call the link. Follow that with < (the less than sign), / (blackslash), the letter a, and then > (greater than sign).
While this might be a headache to enter, this is the HTML code for a link.
I don’t think I properly explained the situation that I was referring to in my original post.
What I was referring to is a situation where you are reading a post and you run across a link that will not work by simply clicking on it. Links like that appear as plain text. They are not highlighted in blue nor are they underlined. The procedure I outlined will open the link with just a couple of clicks on the mouse.
My original post covers it from the other end of the situation. I too have seen a lot of non-functional links and that’s the way I end up building them when I post so that the links function.
