How to post hot links?

[boomhower]

How do you post hotlinks here. Every other forum I am on has a little web button, how do you do it here?

 

[Raduque]

It only becomes available at 5000 posts.

 

[waggy]

It only becomes available at 5000 posts.

heard they were upping it to 10000 to reduce spammers

 

[jlee]

It's magic!

 

[boomhower]

Good grief. Just wanted to post a proposed build without having a messy ass post with full length links a mile long.

 

[shortylickens]

 

[Baked]

Just quote jlee's post and turn some gears in your head.

 

[FoBoT]

 

[BoomerD]

I loves me some good hot links...speshully with some good, cold beer.

 

[MotionMan]

How do you post hotlinks here. Every other forum I am on has a little web button, how do you do it here?

There you go.

MotionMan

 

[Raduque]

heard they were upping it to 10000 to reduce spammers

:thumbsup:

 

[SKORPI0]

 

[olds]

 

[Jeff7]

You mean custom text for a link?

vB decided to use the innovative approach of making the process very counterintuitive.


1) Type the text you want to show as the link.
2) Highlight the text.
3) Click the Insert Link button.
4) Enter the hyperlink.

 

[Ichinisan]

Just quote jlee's post and turn some gears in your head.

This.

I used to think OP intentionally spelled Boomhauer incorrectly Now I'm not so sure.

 

[olds]

Good grief. Just wanted to post a proposed build without having a messy ass post with full length links a mile long.

 

[Ichinisan]

You mean custom text for a link?

vB decided to use the innovative approach of making the process very counterintuitive.


1) Type the text you want to show as the link.
2) Highlight the text.
3) Click the Insert Link button.
4) Enter the hyperlink.

It's intuitive. I use BBCode anyway.

 

[Ichinisan]

I enabled the toolbar buttons in my profile because Google Chrome breaks the keyboard shortcuts for Bold/Italics/Underline. I used to select text in Firefox and press Ctrl+U, then change them to "URL" and add ="..." in the first tag.

 

[Jeff7]

It's intuitive. I use BBCode anyway.

I think Fusetalk's way was better.
1) Click Hyperlink button.
2) It asks you for what it needs - text for the link, then the address.

vB's way just feels backwards.

 

[WelshBloke]

I think Fusetalk's way was better.
1) Click Hyperlink button.
2) It asks you for what it needs - text for the link, then the address.

vB's way just feels backwards.

You can kind of do that here.

Click link button>paste address>OK>type what you want it to show.

At least thats how it works for me.

 

[Ichinisan]

I think Fusetalk's way was better.
1) Click Hyperlink button.
2) It asks you for what it needs - text for the link, then the address.

vB's way just feels backwards.

No. vB is better. It's more like an HTML URL and you can wrap a single URL around images with text.

 

[Ichinisan]

I think Fusetalk's way was better.
1) Click Hyperlink button.
2) It asks you for what it needs - text for the link, then the address.

vB's way just feels backwards.

Text to display...

Worked perfectly just now. I tapped the URL button on my iPhone, then entered a URL and tapped "OK." It created the tags and automatically duplicated the URL into the text between the tags. It highlighted the display text so I could type whatever I want to replace it.

MUCH more intuitive!