Art1.2 Posted February 17, 2012 Report Share Posted February 17, 2012 I've tried everything that I can think of on this and have failed. Please help. In the older version when you chose to post a link using the little command icon for "link", it allowed you to specify the link and the textual description that you wanted inserted in your post. It no longer does that so all you get is some gobbly-gook strink of identifiers that are great to the internet servers but not very readable to people. I cannot get the syntax to work to make this happen for me. Others seem to have no trouble with it. SO what the heck am I doing wrong? I want something simple like a named item in a post that links to my ebay offerings. http://www.ebay.com/...=&_trksid=p3686 HELP!! The link above gets me where I want to go but I want it so say "Art's Ebay Offering". PS Let me add that the new CoinPeople does not allow me to see the underlying code for anything such as these links or pictures or anything. Perhaps there's a way around that but I do not know it. This is a big big hinderence in trying to fix things like Virtual Museum entries. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Roger Posted February 17, 2012 Report Share Posted February 17, 2012 You may have to use HTML code using the "more options" and selecting the HTML ON in the post options. The HTML code itself would look like this <A HREF=http://www.usacoinbook.com/item/4845/>Rogers Silver Dollar for Sale</A> And the actual post should reflect what the next post looks like. I don't know if this is exactly what you are looking for and a nice little insert button would be great. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Roger Posted February 17, 2012 Report Share Posted February 17, 2012 <b>And Here it is:<p><p><A HREF=http://www.usacoinbook.com/item/4845/>Rogers Silver Dollar for Sale</A> Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Art1.2 Posted February 17, 2012 Author Report Share Posted February 17, 2012 Thanks Roger. I'll give it a try. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Art1.2 Posted February 17, 2012 Author Report Share Posted February 17, 2012 <A HREF=http://www.ebay.com/sch/photo.2009/m.html?_nkw=&_armrs=1&_from=&_ipg=&_trksid=p3686/>Art's Ebay Sales</A> OK. I got it to work. I copied the link that I wanted and pasted it in place but before it would work I had to use the button above that says "unlink". Once I did that it put the link in place the way I wanted it. Now for the next question, if I may be a pest, how do I force it to open in another window instead of on top of this one? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Roger Posted February 18, 2012 Report Share Posted February 18, 2012 Well, that question is a little advanced for me but here is the thing--The person reading the post can do this themselves depending on the browser they are using. For Example: I use Internet Explorer on my desk top---I right mouse click on your link and it gives me two choices, 1. open in a new tab or 2. open in a new window. Now on my iPad (touch screen) in which I am using as I write this, I press and hold your link a small window opens and asks if I want to open in a new tab. This worked for both of our links as posted above so I do not know if you want to go to the extra trouble in your posts or let the reader do it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Art1.2 Posted February 18, 2012 Author Report Share Posted February 18, 2012 Well, that question is a little advanced for me but here is the thing--The person reading the post can do this themselves depending on the browser they are using. For Example: I use Internet Explorer on my desk top---I right mouse click on your link and it gives me two choices, 1. open in a new tab or 2. open in a new window. Now on my iPad (touch screen) in which I am using as I write this, I press and hold your link a small window opens and asks if I want to open in a new tab. This worked for both of our links as posted above so I do not know if you want to go to the extra trouble in your posts or let the reader do it. Actually I think I've had all that I can stand of trying to get this to work. Maybe sometime in the future I'll look at Version 2 or something. Thanks again for the help. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ccg Posted February 18, 2012 Report Share Posted February 18, 2012 Now for the next question, if I may be a pest, how do I force it to open in another window instead of on top of this one? Add target="_blank" to the html line after the end of the address. For me in Firefox, that opens the link in a new tab. Also, it doesn't really matter these days with unlimited hosting, but usually I'd take the junk out of the html to clean it up a bit. See below <A HREF=http://www.ebay.com/sch/photo.2009/m.html target="_blank">Art's Ebay Sales</A> Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ccg Posted February 18, 2012 Report Share Posted February 18, 2012 Which turns into <A HREF=http://www.ebay.com/sch/photo.2009/m.html target="_blank">Art's Ebay Sales</A> Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Art1.2 Posted February 18, 2012 Author Report Share Posted February 18, 2012 Thanks Kevin. That's exactly what I need. Add target="_blank" to the html line after the end of the address. For me in Firefox, that opens the link in a new tab. Also, it doesn't really matter these days with unlimited hosting, but usually I'd take the junk out of the html to clean it up a bit. See below <A HREF=http://www.ebay.com/sch/photo.2009/m.html target="_blank">Art's Ebay Sales</A> Which turns into <A HREF=http://www.ebay.com/sch/photo.2009/m.html target="_blank">Art's Ebay Sales</A> Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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