Re-name a url link

kelle

Hi, I was wondering how, after you have copied and pasted a url link, you re-name the link?

aidan_walsh

On boards?

[ url = http://address.tld ]Text[ /url ]

Remove the space, obviously.

spurious

You need to change what comes in the second part of the URL link.

Here is a link to my site http://www.dublin1850.com
this is what the html for that link looks like:
{URL="http://www.dublin1850.com"]http://www.dublin1850.com[/URL}

I have changed the first and last bracket so it will show.

Here is a link to the same site:
with something new linking it
{URL="http://www.dublin1850.com"]with something new linking it[/URL}

Apologies if I have misunderstood what you are asking.

**edit** shakes fist menacingly at aidan_walsh for his embarrassingly simple explanation. You bounder....grrr

kelle

aidan_walsh wrote:

On boards?

[ url = http://address.tld ]Text[ /url ]

Remove the space, obviously.

Okay, Aidan, I'll try it here!!!
[http://www.boards.ie/vbulletin/newreply.php?do=newreply&p=53107595]Link[/url]

Oops! Where did I go wrong. I just want to rename this webpage link as "Link".

When you say, on Boards, is it a different formula for different websites?

aidan_walsh

You have to include the url= bit.

Some forums use this form of posting links, called BBCode. Other sites use classic HTML, the markup websites are built on.

Ruu_Old

Try [noparse]I renamed it[/noparse]

Result:

I renamed it

spurious

You went wrong by leaving out the " at each end of the URL.

For a webpage a link would look like this:
<A HREF="address of page you want to link to.html">Text you want to appear as the link</A>

kelle

spurious wrote:

You need to change what comes in the second part of the URL link.

Here is a link to my site http://www.dublin1850.com
this is what the html for that link looks like:
{URL="http://www.dublin1850.com"]http://www.dublin1850.com[/URL}

I have changed the first and last bracket so it will show.

Here is a link to the same site:
with something new linking it
{URL="http://www.dublin1850.com"]with something new linking it[/URL}

Apologies if I have misunderstood what you are asking.

**edit** shakes fist menacingly at aidan_walsh for his embarrassingly simple explanation. You bounder....grrr

Ah, Spurious, I'll try yours now!
Look at this

kelle

Thank you, all of you, I can't believe I did it!!!!!!

kelle

I've tried to do this on a Bebo site, but it didn't work. What would be the reason for this?

spurious

Did you do it where people post messages, or within a profile?

I'm not that well up on Bebo, but if you want to PM me your Bebo address I can have a look and see.

aidan_walsh

Bebo probably uses a different mark up system. You'll have to check with them to see what they use, I'm sure their support site probably has a tutorial.

Gordon

If Bebo is like Myspace then it would be:
<a href="http://www.site.com/">text to display</a>

As spurious says on post 7.