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How Do I Make A Link "Clickable"?
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Author:  The Bissler [ Wed Oct 23, 2013 9:41 am ]
Post subject:  How Do I Make A Link "Clickable"?
Hi,

I'm looking to make the URL for my Epic page on FB embedded in my signature in such a way that if anyone clicks on it, it will take them to the page. As you can see, I tried to do this by pasting the link in along with the URL button but all this has done is display [URL] at either side of my link, which, to state the obvious, is as useful as a chocolate teapot.

I'm quite certain my complete lack of understanding of the internet is not helping with this. I only recently found out the spiders played no part in building the World Wide Web.

Can anyone offer any advice please? Better still, if anyone can explain how to type text such as "Epic 40K Players Page" that would have the URL hidden within that when you click on it, it would take you to the page, I'd very much appreciate it! :sos
Author:  CaptainSenioris [ Wed Oct 23, 2013 9:51 am ]
Post subject:  Re: How Do I Make A Link "Clickable"?
Use this [url=https://www.facebook.com/Epic40KPlayersPage)"Words you want to show"[/url]

Just use a square bracket instead of a normal one & take out the inverted commas :)
Author:  madd0ct0r [ Wed Oct 23, 2013 10:06 am ]
Post subject:  Re: How Do I Make A Link "Clickable"?
you also need to enable html in your signature - I think it's in profile settings.

an finally

spiders did help build the web - they're the bots that crawl websites to build search engine indexes!
Author:  The Bissler [ Wed Oct 23, 2013 10:25 am ]
Post subject:  Re: How Do I Make A Link "Clickable"?
Victory! I got there in the end!!! ;D

CaptainSenioris wrote:
Use this [url=https://www.facebook.com/Epic40KPlayersPage)"Words you want to show"[/url]

Just use a square bracket instead of a normal one & take out the inverted commas :)


Excellent! Cheers for this! :)

madd0ct0r wrote:
you also need to enable html in your signature - I think it's in profile settings.


I mucked around with it for a bit and ended up deselecting the boxes that were ticked for "Disable BBCode" and "Do not automatically parse URLs" - these are indeed in the "Edit Signatgure" section. I have no idea what either of those things mean, but I don't care so long as it works! Thanks for the tip off! ;)

madd0ct0r wrote:
spiders did help build the web - they're the bots that crawl websites to build search engine indexes!


I bloody knew it!!! I'll be having a word with the naysayers who denied that spiders were weaving a very tangled web of super-fast information.
Author:  The Bissler [ Wed Oct 23, 2013 10:30 am ]
Post subject:  Re: How Do I Make A Link "Clickable"?
Get me! I even managed to change the colour of the text! This is how it begins, next stop is Head Programmer for the Hadron Collider! ;D
Author:  MrGonzo [ Wed Oct 23, 2013 10:40 am ]
Post subject:  Re: How Do I Make A Link "Clickable"?
Edit: Problem seems fixed ;)

Edit the 2nd: Your colour choice reminds me of this! Haha
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Author:  The Bissler [ Wed Oct 23, 2013 10:42 am ]
Post subject:  Re: How Do I Make A Link "Clickable"?
Haha! Subtle I am not! :D

Can't beat a bit of Reggae Reggae Epic sauce!
Author:  CyberShadow [ Fri Oct 25, 2013 4:36 am ]
Post subject:  Re: How Do I Make A Link "Clickable"?
The Bissler wrote:
I mucked around with it for a bit and ended up deselecting the boxes that were ticked for "Disable BBCode" and "Do not automatically parse URLs" - these are indeed in the "Edit Signatgure" section. I have no idea what either of those things mean, but I don't care so long as it works! Thanks for the tip off! ;)

madd0ct0r wrote:
spiders did help build the web - they're the bots that crawl websites to build search engine indexes!


I bloody knew it!!! I'll be having a word with the naysayers who denied that spiders were weaving a very tangled web of super-fast information.


Glad that you got this sorted out. For information....

'BB Code' is a special set of tags used by Bulletin Boards (forums) to tell it how to display text or perform specific actions. The [url] command is one example of this. The square brackets are only used by forum software and the 'URL' tag tells the web browser that its a link to a web page.

The 'url parsing' converts the web link to a clickable format. Its not always a good idea to turn this on, as some places have web pages that will automatically 'be clicked' and take you somewhere undesirable. But, since there are not many places less desirable than here ( ;) and that we are all pretty trustworthy individuals here) it s fine to leave activated.

As for spiders, they actually have their own category on these forums to give them access to the boards and help them to identify threads and pages so that they get indexed in search engines. They usually come up as '[bot]' in the user list, and are 'Chaos Spawn'. ;D
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