specific to this forum: how do you create a short cut (highlighted) within the narrative?

I usually type my answer on a word processing program, (either in Microsoft outlook or word), to compose and check spelling. In my narrative when I have a web address, it is highlighted blue, and is "clickable" for immediate access to the site. When I "copy and paste" the composition into this forum, the address is simply another group of letters and numbers... No shortcut.

I notice others (John Collier is good at this)have no problem incorporating a shortcut into a response... what is the secret? Thanks

-- Al Smith (smith58@msn.com), January 04, 2001

Answers

Al, go to the View menu and select "Page Source" or "Source" when you're on a page that contains one of the clickable links you mention. You're pasting in the URL, e.g. "http://www.blahblah.com/blah/blah.jpg" but you need to surround it with a tad bit of HTML. It's not that big of a deal, though. Check out the "page source" of this page and find this posting, and see how I put this link to the Leica forum intro page.

-- Tony Rowlett (rowlett@alaska.net), January 04, 2001.

What can I say? Tony taught me everything I know. Thanks for the info and such a great site!

Cheers

-- John Collier (jbcollier@home.com), January 04, 2001.

What makes it so difficult to explain is the fact that you can't normally put in the angle bracket, i.e. the "less than" or a shift+, (comma) and the "greater than" or shift+. (period) as examples because they are interrpreted rather than shown, so they disappear! In my example below, I'll use parentheses instead, but in your post, use the angle brackets. Check this out:

(a href="http://www.alaska.net/~rowlett/leicaforum.htm")THIS TEXT WILL BE BLUE AND UNDERLINED(/a) will look like THIS TEXT WILL BE BLUE AND UNDERLINED when you replace the parens with angle brackets. So when you click on the blue underlined text, your browser will take you to the address between the quotes. Is that better?

-- Tony Rowlett (rowlett@mail.com), January 04, 2001.

OK, I've solved the problem of properly displaying characters like < and >, and I've started a new LESSON thread... please see.

-- Tony Rowlett (rowlett@mail.com), January 05, 2001.