Linking to a web page, a forum post, or a reply
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There are two ways to make hypertext links (there's no distinction between on-Forum and off-Forum links):
- Type the URL. The URL text will automatically change to a hyperlink.
- If the URL is especially long, the displayed link will be middle-truncated, to avoid overflow. Don't worry, the link will still work correctly. Do not put a period or other punctuation after the link, as the forum's parser won't know that the trailing punctuation isn't part of the link.
- Use the BBCode, similar to an HTML anchor tag:
[url=http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pricing_Strategies]Product pricing[/url]
- With this method, you can set your own text to appear as the hyperlink ("Product pricing" in this example).
Please use well-formed URLs, including the protocol. The forum application tries to make sense of "www.example.com," as some email readers do, but that introduces guesswork and may fail. The browser may guess wrong too; there are more protocols at work on the Internet than the HyperText Transfer Protocol.
To link to a forum post:
- Browse to the topic.
- Copy the URL in the browser address bar for the link.
- Paste the link into your post.
To link to a reply:
- Browse to the topic and scroll down to the reply.
- Look for the time stamp of the reply at the top-left of the reply message box.
- Hover over the time stamp and right-click.
- Select the command that copies the hyperlink location (the exact wording differs among operating systems).
- Paste the copied link into your post.
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