Making a link into text

Jeffrey

[url=http://www.buddhism-connect.org/sanghaspace-members/teachings/?article=1823&searchtext=karma]Karma[/url]

This is the format I use on other forums and it would give me a link Karma which one could click on to get to that address. Is there an error I made? I checked several times.

Otherwise whats the syntax (language to tell the computer what to do)?

Jeffrey

I think it might because buddhism connect requires a login (which I forgot about though its free and public)...

Testing with another site:

[url=http://www.google.com/#hl=en&sugexp=ldymls&xhr=t&q=wikipedia+buddhism&cp=14&qe=d2lraXBlZGlhIGJ1ZGQ&qesig=-fUtVPLSAslaY]wikibuddhism[/url]

dorje

Use HTML coding instead of BBcode.

Jeffrey

Dorje, do you know the syntax?

zombiegirl

i think that this website is formatted in such a way that you just need to post the link and it will do it automatically.

http://www.newbuddhist.com

edit: i just tested and confirmed this. no need for any type of code so long as you start with http:

Jeffrey

zombiegirl what I was trying to do was to replace the http etc with text and a link. For example I could make a post where I was talking about chocolate and have the word chocolate a clickable link to a wikipedia article about chocolate..

Have you seen that before?

The syntax on other forums I frequent is [url=httttp://blahblahwebsite]chocolate[/url]

zombiegirl

oooh, i see. sorry

new buddhist

edit: html seems to work.

[a href="http://www.newbuddhist.com"]new buddhist[/a]

replace the [ and ] with < and > respectively

Jeffrey

Nice thanks,