Creating a shortcut to a link

[alavahalf]

When you send a post to this site... and you want to include a link in your post...
How do you reduce the link down so that it says something like ....Click Here...instead of displaying the whole link ,which seems to take up so much space.

....(I can't remember where the brackets go)....

[Buenchico]

Do you mean like this ?
(Click the link and read 'To label a hyperlink', under 'Posting guidelines')

Chris

[alavahalf]

Cheers Chris....just did'nt know where to find it...!

[alavahalf]

Click Here

Got it down to ..Click Here... but I keep getting a blank page ?
What am I missing ?

[ChuckFickens]

That worked..

the blank page was probably just AB being slow.

[Buenchico]

Your link seems to work there, Alavahalf!

To be honest, I rarely use that shortcut. If I do, I go to the tutorial page, highlight the relevant bit of HTML and then copy and paste it into my post. I then replace the URL in the example with the one that I want to link to, and replace 'my label' with my own choice of wording.

I'll usually just paste the entire URL. If it's particularly lengthy, I'll shorten it by using TinyURL:
http://tinyurl.com/
TinyURL is also useful for linking to secure web pages (with 'https' inthe URL, instead of 'http'). If you put a 'https' URL on here, it won't 'hyperlink'. (i.e. it won't be 'clickable'). Using TinyURL gets round that problem. For example, both ChuckFickens and I have used TinyURL, earlier this evening, to get round the problem of 'https' links being 'non-clickable', here:
http://www.theanswerbank.co.uk/Technology/Comp uters/Question739924.html

Chris

[alavahalf]

Strange that you both say it works...even though I have refreshed it...when I click on it I still get a blank page..?

In the address bar it says ...about :blank..

[alavahalf]

Got the Tinyurl to work http://tinyurl.com/dxllwe
so at least I'm getting somewhere...it just kooks altogether better..... Many thanks guys..!

[trish432]

I`m also getting a blank page.

[ChuckFickens]

just to add to what chris has said. TinyURL is also very handy on this site as it gets round the, sometimes intrusive, censoring of links.

for example, a lot of links to items on the microsoft website include the words "family ID" in the link, which at first glance seems totally non-offensive, however once the space is taken out (as it would be in a link) you get the letters Y I and D together and the censoring on this site sees familYID, and as the word YID is deemed (correctly) to be offensive the link gets censored.

The only way to get round this and post a link to a lot of pages on the microsoft site is to use tinyURL.

(PS I apologise for the use of HTML to get round the censoring, no offense was intended and it was purely for demonstration)

[ACtheTROLL]

it doesn't work for me !!!!

I can see the link is pointing to
http://www.theanswerbank.co.uk/Technology/
(and mine works)

but it shoots blank

looking at the code you've used
"


the block of code shows as
<td width="320" style="background: #FFF3DB;"><p class="QuestionAuthor">Question Author</p><div class="answer" style="border: 0px solid; white-space: wrap; overflow: hidden; text-overflow: clip;">
Click Here



Got it down to ..Click Here... but I keep getting a blank page ?

What am I missing ?

[ChuckFickens]

it takes me straight to

http://www.theanswerbank.co.uk/Technology/Ques tion740101.html

and if I hover over the link thats the address in the bar at the bottom...

maybe it's a strange IE/firefox thing (I can't try with IE on this lappy)

[ACtheTROLL]

thought so ... looked ok in preview

but I see a link to ab#


the source shows a link to ebay???

bu and chuck ... if it worked for you ... what did you see?

[ChuckFickens]

they put the URL outside of the quotes (so two sets of " before the address)

http://i44.tinypic.com/2ih5lzt.png

[Buenchico]

Hi AC.

The 'Click Here' link in Alavahalf's post shows a link to this page when I hover my mouse over it, and (as expected) I see this page if I click on it. (I'm using Firefox 2 with Windows ME - er, don't laugh!).

Chris