How to: create a link

(Hugs & Bacon) #1

Can you please explain to this technically challenged dumb ass how to create a link? The way people are attaching recipes from websites

(Richard Morris) #2

Let’s say I want to link to another post on the forum. I’ve started replying to your topic … so now I can use the search to find the topic I want to link to.

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and then select some relevant quote from that post and then click on the “QUOTE” button

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and it will be added to my reply to you.

This is great because it adds a link to that other Topic along with some context

If I wanted to link to ANOTHER website I can go to that site in another browser, click on the URL in the address bar

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and then you can copy that (either ctrl-c, or right click and select the copy option), then paste that (ctrl-v) on a standalone line and it will embed that link in your reply - like this page from @MSboros

I just added the URL “http://foodmed.net/2017/01/23/daa-bed-big-food-low-fat-paleo-lchf/” on a line by itself and it gets embedded.

If you wanted to insert a link in your page with a description you can use the “chain link” icon to add the url and the text you want to appear in the link

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and it will look like this

The Dietitians Ass. of Australia

I’m going to move your topic to the HOWTO section. Thanks for giving me a chance to explain this subject so that others can also stumble upon it :slight_smile:

(Hugs & Bacon) #3

Wow that is involved! Thanks for explaining all this, I will give it a go.
Cheers

(Steve Stephenson) #4

How do you force a new window?

In HTML I’d use < a href="" target="_blank">< /a>, but how on this forum?

(Linda Culbreth) #5

Good info to know how to add a link.