[JoeSoap]

Practice external links...

Link to Eon Next Login here.

Nope... didn't work

[JoeSoap]

Try again here

Yayyyyyyyyyy

[Andy65]

You've soon got the hang of that @JoeSoap 👍

[JoeSoap]

My brain hurts now...

Every day's a school day 😀

If this thread is allowed to stay on the forum I can refer back to it if needs be.

[JoeSoap]

Progress report…

Hyperlinking Using Mobile Phone

I’ve now managed to use my phone to link other forum posts by selecting ‘Copy post link’ then simply pasting to whatever post I’m typing. It displays the entire URL of course, so could be better, but at least it’s a link… ie…

https://community.eonnext.com/thread...ull=1#post7151

I still haven’t worked out if it’s possible to link something from outside the forum using my phone but I’m working on it.

This is keeping my ageing brain active 👍

[retrotecchie]

@JoeSoap

Like this, you mean news link?



Not sure how easy that would be on a phone, and whether you can copy an off site link....do phone browsers have ability to swap between tabs?

I've just knocked this up on a tablet, and it seemed to work for me, but then I do use tags a lot on another forum so know how they work.

[JoeSoap]

@retrotecchie

Yes, like that. I’m using my iPhone now and can get multiple tags but only know how to link anything by doing this…
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joe_Soap
… as I don’t know how to substitute the link address for a word or two like ‘news link’.

[retrotecchie]

@JoeSoap

Ok, if you know how a tag works, and I'll have to pack this out with spaces or it will just display as an actual link...

A hyperlink tag starts with [ url ] and closes with [ /url ]

So if you paste your link address between the tags...

You get [ url ] bbc.co.uk/news [ /url ] and whatever is between the tags is the displayed text, as well as the physical link itself. Ok.

but...if you put the link inside the opening tag like this...with the equals sign,

[ url = bbc.co.uk/news] and put your desired display text between the tags [ /url ]

Then you get a friendly link. This is the manual method of doing what the link editor does for you.

[JoeSoap]

@retrotecchie
So you mean like this?

Thanks for that 👍 A bit long-winded but at least I know now.

[retrotecchie]

@JoeSoap

You nailed it. Yes, a little verbose, but as a computer programmer who started in the game long before computers had touchscreens, or even mouses and graphics, everything was done with typed in tags in the glory days. My first word processor was running on CP/M (pre DOS) - Wordstar 1.1. If you wanted to underline, use bold or italics, you had to type ^U or ^B or ^I or something like that. Looked odd on the screen in the days before WYSIWYG, but once you sent it to the printer, the printer took care of the formatting.