Link Button...
Dear lq--
(If this additional info doesn't help, then ignore it and stick to what Ed wrote...)
There is also a link button located on the toolbar or the "Reply to Thread" window. It looks like this:
(without the 'st.com')
What will happen when you click that button?
A dialog box appears, that looks like this:
This box is very demanding, because it won't let you do anything except enter text and click either "OK" or "Cancel." So, you need to have the text already at hand when you click the button. That particular text is what Ed was talking about before, when he wrote you can copy from the address bar.
The demanding dialog box then brackets your text with computer instructions, as in the following example:
[ URL="http://www.google.com/" ]your text goes here[ /URL]
So the computer is instructed to use whatever is inside the quotation marks as if it was a valid web page, and use whatever is between the middle two square brackets, "]" and "[", as text to color blue and underline.
When you do everything correctly, you have actually succeeded in writing a little computer program. For instance, the example above (done successfully) displays blue, underlined "your text goes here" and when you click it you are taken to "www.google.com" ...
your text goes here
