Hotlink

 

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JM wrote:

Under the text box, there's a setting called "input format" that lets you use a little HTML to make the link.

... a little clunky, so I went ahead and updated your original post smile

JM

I must be just an old guy without a feel for modern technology, (or HTML) I looked at the input options and for the life of me I can't figure out how to make a hotlink.

Oh well, I lived without being able to do it up to now so I will just have to keep going forward without being a technology sophisticated hip guy.

Thanks for trying to teach an old dog a new trick smile

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It's easy

Double Tap wrote:

I must be just an old guy without a feel for modern technology, (or HTML) I looked at the input options and for the life of me I can't figure out how to make a hotlink.

Double Tap,

use this format:

<a href=http://www.xxx.com>text to display</a>

hope this helps

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got to start from somewhere

Double Tap wrote:
JM wrote:

Under the text box, there's a setting called "input format" that lets you use a little HTML to make the link.

... a little clunky, so I went ahead and updated your original post smile

JM

I must be just an old guy without a feel for modern technology, (or HTML) I looked at the input options and for the life of me I can't figure out how to make a hotlink.

Oh well, I lived without being able to do it up to now so I will just have to keep going forward without being a technology sophisticated hip guy.

Thanks for trying to teach an old dog a new trick smile

Don't feel so bad, we all started from somewhere...

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Double Tap wrote:
JM wrote:

Under the text box, there's a setting called "input format" that lets you use a little HTML to make the link.

I must be just an old guy without a feel for modern technology, (or HTML) I looked at the input options and for the life of me I can't figure out how to make a hotlink.

I just installed an updated module that automatically recognizes URLs and turns them into hyperlinks.

As before, only active users can create hyperlinks; but now there's no need to type out the HTML to make them work.

Just remember to use the "input format" to select "Filtered HTML with Hyperlinks".

JM

Thanks JM

JM wrote:

I just installed an updated module that automatically recognizes URLs and turns them into hyperlinks.

As before, only active users can create hyperlinks; but now there's no need to type out the HTML to make them work.

Just remember to use the "input format" to select "Filtered HTML with Hyperlinks".

JM

Thanks JM, that will certainly help me. As always you are quick to recognize opportunities and take action to keep this site at the premier level it has attained. Great community + Great tools=POI Factory.

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I could not have said it better

mkahn wrote:
JM wrote:

I just installed an updated module that automatically recognizes URLs and turns them into hyperlinks.

As before, only active users can create hyperlinks; but now there's no need to type out the HTML to make them work.

Just remember to use the "input format" to select "Filtered HTML with Hyperlinks".

JM

Thanks JM, that will certainly help me. As always you are quick to recognize opportunities and take action to keep this site at the premier level it has attained. Great community + Great tools=POI Factory.

JM, as the kids say "U DA MAN"

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"Ceterum autem censeo, Carthaginem esse delendam" “When governments fear the people, there is liberty. When the people fear the government, there is tyranny.”