Please help with making a link

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This sounds sill but if you don't use the image-text youtube boxes how would you manually write a link?

NT's are trying to explain and I am annoying them.

<ahref>="http://www.guardian.co.uk/"<a/>

What am I doing wrong ?

Please would you write out <ahref>="http://www.guardian.co.uk/"<a/>

with > Missing

I need to see it to get the rule.

Sorry to bother you and thanks in advance.

Meme

You've got the syntax a bit garbled. It should be:

<ahref="http://www.guardian.co.uk/">Link Text Here</a>

Note: the actual link goes inside the first angle brackets. You put link text between the brackets. Also, the closing code should be as I've shown it above.

You can always cut and paste my example, then simply replace two things: the text inside the quotes (leave the quotes alone) for your actual link, and replace Link Text Here with the text you want your link to display.

Hope that helps.

Thanks wanderer , very much will cut and paste.

Wanderer could you please have a look at this and tell me what I'm doing wrong . This is driving me nuts- what is their link box for.?


http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree ... f-comments

Do they think I'm teasing/are they teasing me?

Sorry: I did miss one other typo in your example when I edited it. There should be a space after the first 'a'. I'll include an example at the bottom. But to answer your other question...

I pulled this link from your comment; the link box gives you the link to that comment.

http://www.guardian.co.uk/discussion/co ... k/12134123

So you use the link box to get a link, not to leave one. If their comment form allows links, it may use HTML or BBCode, or something else... I'll look into that further in a minute, then reply here again. If it does accept links, you'd type the entire code for the link in the comment form. (Using the new link above.)

<a href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/discussion/comment-permalink/12134123">Link Text Here</a>

Why make a box that you cant leave links in?

My head is too full of static to take this in tonight. It is probably me.

Thank you very much though.

Perhaps you can explain to them what the box is for, no one seems to know.

Goodnight

I don't think so; there's a confusion here over the code that should be used. I assumed you were posting this in an HTML environment. A comment form has its own code parser. That means it expects different "flags" to tell it this is valid code. I think what you want is like this (which should display, since WP uses BBCode, and this is not BBCode):

{a href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/discussion/comment-permalink/12134123"}Link Text Here{/a}

To use this, cut and paste just the line of code I've put in bold, then edit the link itself and the link text. I just registered, and haven't had time to test a sample link myself, so I'm not certain this will work, but if I'm reading the commenter correctly, this should work.

I understand why you're confused, and I'm sure most of them don't have any idea what it's for. The site is not what I'd call well designed. But I play around with things to see how they work.

Say you want to leave a link to comment on a story. You'd do that in the comment itself, using the code above (with the non-standard brackets, since it isn't an HTML environment). So you'd open up a comment, and say (for example) "I think this other article explains the matter much better {a href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/random-article-just-for-example"}Much Better Article{/a} ". Then you'd submit the comment, and the link you added would appear in your comment. Not that they make this clear on the site.

The "Link" box is to let you get the link to that comment. Otherwise, you might not know the exact URL to use to make a link. So you would click on "Link", copy the text in that box, and use it in a link somewhere else or in an e-mail or whatever. So it should say "Get Link" or something like that, but the designer didn't bother to think things through.

And I'm sorry; I was confused at first, too. I thought you wanted to embed a link in HTML, not in a comment form. So some of the confusion is my fault.

{a href=http://www.wrongplanet.net/forums-posting-reply-t-172512.htm"{/a}

{a href=http://www.wrongplanet.net/forums-posting-reply-t-172512.htm"}linkquestion{/a}

?

Thanks again .

This is missing the opening quote, just before the http: - and it won't work here, because Wrong Planet uses BBCode, which is the same except that you'd use square brackets. For what it's worth, no one can keep track of whose system uses what. HTML is the basic, more or less universal option. For all the rest, you really have to know the system.