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posting long links
Posted: Sun Jul 02, 2006 8:28 am
by hob
we have all at one time or another posted a link to another page or another site that stretches the page far too wide. heres how to get round that......and name the link to whatever you want to call it.
the normal code for a link is ......
the link name
to do the above the code is changed like this
the link name]whatever you want to call it
important .....no spaces between code and words
thus http://www.cactiguide.com/forum/index.php
could be forum
Posted: Mon Jul 03, 2006 9:23 am
by cactuspolecat
Thanks hob, that's handy info.
Cheers, CP
Posted: Tue Jul 04, 2006 1:39 am
by ihc6480
Cool, I might end up more PC compatible with handy info like this.
Thanks hob
Posted: Sat Sep 02, 2006 6:39 pm
by hob
decided to bring this back to the front page for reference as we have a few long links recently.
Posted: Sat Sep 02, 2006 7:06 pm
by Plantcelot
Thanks hob! Just what I needed, I just tried it and it works great
Posted: Fri Apr 13, 2007 7:13 pm
by hob
time to bump this again for new members
Posted: Fri Apr 13, 2007 7:49 pm
by daiv
hob wrote:time to bump this again for new members
Oh yeah. I'll make this sticky hob!
Posted: Fri Apr 13, 2007 9:48 pm
by cactusbutt
Sweet thanks hob
Posted: Sat Apr 14, 2007 4:15 am
by Tony
ditto!!!
Posted: Sat Jun 27, 2009 1:56 pm
by tvaughan
Great info, but don't you just click on links no matter how long they are? Isn't it just as easy to click on long links as short? (I'm probably missing something as usual)
Posted: Sat Jun 27, 2009 2:30 pm
by hob
Tim that was written to prevent page stretching which messes up the format of the message board
like this.
http://photography.shop.ebay.co.uk/item ... m14?_pgn=5
Posted: Mon Jun 29, 2009 10:54 pm
by daiv
Hob is correct, a shorter link is also neater within a paragraph.
Posted: Tue Jun 30, 2009 12:36 am
by Moonbeam
Good example Hob...as I scroll back and forth horizontally to read the loooong link.
Re: posting long links
Posted: Wed Nov 20, 2019 1:37 am
by Edwindwianto
How do you make a link be opened in a new window?
I tried adding target=_blank after the url and it didn't work...