Putting a hyperlink in the comments
Here's an answer to Mac from a while back. As he noted, hyperlinks (aka hypertexts) are available in Posts but not Comments. Here's a hyperlink to a little tutorial. The key paragraph is below.
Hypertext LinksHypertext links (also called hyperlinks or "hot" links) are text or graphics items that act as "buttons" that the user can click on to display another Web page (or another portion of the same page). Text links are shown as underlined text on the Web page. For example, to create a link to another HTML page called "chapter1.html" that is stored in the same directory (folder), you might write:
This is discussed in Chapter 1.
which is rendered like this:
This is discussed in Chapter 1.
Or you could write
Click here to go to Chapter 1.
which would look like this:
Click here to go to Chapter 1.
In either case, if the user clicks on the underlined text, chapter1.html is displayed. The general template for a hyperlink is . You simply put the file name between the quotes "" and the link text (the text that you want to act as the hot link) between the > and the <.
Hypertext LinksHypertext links (also called hyperlinks or "hot" links) are text or graphics items that act as "buttons" that the user can click on to display another Web page (or another portion of the same page). Text links are shown as underlined text on the Web page. For example, to create a link to another HTML page called "chapter1.html" that is stored in the same directory (folder), you might write:
This is discussed in Chapter 1.
which is rendered like this:
This is discussed in Chapter 1.
Or you could write
Click here to go to Chapter 1.
which would look like this:
Click here to go to Chapter 1.
In either case, if the user clicks on the underlined text, chapter1.html is displayed. The general template for a hyperlink is . You simply put the file name between the quotes "" and the link text (the text that you want to act as the hot link) between the > and the <.

1 Comments:
Oh crap...it turned how to write a hyperlink INTO a hyperlink so yo ucan't see HOW to write it. Damnation!
just click to the tutorial site and read "hypertext links" - if you can't figure just say that you're too smart for such trivial knowledge.
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Thurston J Morphy III, at Thu Oct 19, 09:04:00 AM CDT
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