How do I make a link for a webpage I put in a post clickable? Searched the FAQ and there’s nothing on that, at least that I can find. If I do a copy and paste from a website I visit, it’s not clickable in the post. Keep in mind that I’m working from a Mac and using Safari. And in case someone suggests I use something like Firefox, how do I do it in that browser?
Not sure on the Macs but hitting the Enter/Return key after the link will make it clickable.
I use Firefox. What I do is type in the word(s) that I want to represent the link, highlight the word(s) then click the chain link icon in the reply box toolbar. This brings up a a dialog box for making links. I paste the link url into the first block and click INSERT. In a couple of seconds it’s done.
Smile,
Stein
I use Internet Explorer and all I do is copy and paste the address I want to have a link for and then hit the space bar.
Thanks - much appreciated. Things like this should be in the FAQ. Unfortunately, Safari doesn’t have these icons and such above the reply window so it looks like I’ll have to use Firefox if I want to make clickable links on a Mac.
IE isn’t available on a PPC Mac, which is what I have, and this trick doesn’t work in Safari.
Well - you could always just write the codes by hand.
[ URL=http://some.url.com ] Some text [ /URL ]
Remove the spaces next to the square brackets, and you get:
Smile,
Stein
Actually, the links are on the forum, so I would think they would be there no matter what comp or OS you use.
Maybe?
Rotor
Thank you very much. Like I said, it would be nice if this was in the FAQ.
If you’re talking about the items just above the window I’m typing this in, they are definitely NOT there on a Mac and using Safari as a browser.
Look at steinjr 's picture in his post. You need to highlight the text first which makes the chain link icon active, then click the icon he indicated. A new window opens, paste the url there, then tab through untikl the buttons appear at the bottom and click INSERT.
I dunno then. I would have thought it was a forum thing, not a computer thing. [%-)]
Sorry I can’t help.
I guess you just have to type the code manually.
Rotor
Regardless of browser, if you type in a web address like http://tonystrains.com (Edit: Specifically avoiding making that a link. Not trying to advertise. [:)] ) t should automatically format it into the proper URL -UNLESS- you have disabled HTML and BBCode in posts. This can be checked / unchecked in your user profile.
Nope. If I leave my forum profile unchanged and change between using IE and using firefox, writing an URL in IE automatically turns it into a link, but not when i use firefox to write.
The behavior is browser specific, not forum user settings specific.
Smile,
Stein
Doesn’t work that way on a Mac with Safari. Once again, there are NO icons or anything above/in/near the window I am typing this in. Just a box that contains the subject line of the post, and a box that contains the quoted text and the text I am typing now.
Next time you’re in a reply window, press F3 and see if anytyhing happens. I used to have no tools above the window, just a basic reply box.
Doesn’t work on a Mac running the latest updates to Tiger and Safari as browser.