Tried to explain this on a photo comment of yours, but the site's stripping the angle brackets, so having to shove it in here.
Links in text on web pages are created by surrounding the desired link text with an opening and closing "a" tag. It's called an "a" tag because it uses the letter "a", short for "anchor".
An opening tag looks like <a> and the closing one like </a>, with the slash in it. There's one more component to it, but I'll also add that you can use the same tag format with different letters; "b" to make text bold, "i" to make it italic, "u" for an underline (although they don't work in photo comments, only discussions, on here, Ross strips them out for safety) for example.
So we've the general idea that we need to surround <a>some text we want to make into a link</a> with "a" tags like that. The last thing is to add the "hypertext reference" attribute into the opening "a" tag, shortened to "href", so we end up with
<a href="the URL of the page you want to link to">the text you want to appear as a link</a>
and that's the completed link. :)
Hope that's clear. Might be confusing but I prefer to explain the why/how of a thing, rather than just give out an answer. Knowing why/how often helps remember stuff easier, I find.
Perfectly clear. Thanks for going to such great lengths to explain it. I definitely agree about the why/how of things. I suppose I could have researched it on the internets but would have ended up in an alley reeking of god knows what and muttering to myself after trying to find an understandable answer. You sir have saved me from that. Tip o the hat to ya.
@shadesofgrey no worries, I actually enjoy writing up stuff like this anyway. Everyone's a winner! And yeah, the comments showed up, but without the angle brackets, and when I tried to display the angle brackets via their two special codes < ("lt" meaning "less than", as in <) and > (yup, "greater than" for >) they showed up literally instead of appearing as the symbols themselves, so I deleted the comments and made this instead. HTML is so much fun! :P
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Can I take advantage of your expertise and ask you a question? I'm a new entry to 365project. When I tried to post a reply in a discussion thread this is what appears next to my name, first row
Mara posted February 10th, 2013 (edit | delete | reply)
whereas the others in the discussion get this
(reply @username)
after the date. Why is that? What do I do wrong? When I post a reply I simply write the text and the confirm.
Can you please halp?
@mara19500 Well you can't edit or delete other people's posts, so it only shows edit and delete on yours, and the link to "reply @blah" is just there to make it easier to mention people. And you don't really want to mention yourself.
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hope this works.. ( just trying it out on here because my email already has a hyperlink button automatically to change the text )
I've wanted to know about this too and forgot to ask you how you do it..
Thanks to the person who asked :D
woooooohoooooooo it worked!
Thanks!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Can I take advantage of your expertise and ask you a question? I'm a new entry to 365project. When I tried to post a reply in a discussion thread this is what appears next to my name, first row
Mara posted February 10th, 2013 (edit | delete | reply)
whereas the others in the discussion get this
(reply @username)
after the date. Why is that? What do I do wrong? When I post a reply I simply write the text and the confirm.
Can you please halp?
Thanks very much.