How to post a link to another web site

[loveclassics]

I'm sure I've asked before but I cannot remember how to post a link without displaying the entire URL.  John, could you please remind me of the correct procedure?

 

Thanks

 

Linda

[Jan McNulty]

On the tool bar there is a little symbol that, to me, looks like a handcuff.

 

So if I wanted to "tidy" this link:

 

http://www.balletcoforum.com/index.php?/topic/13966-are-taller-dancers-more-prone-to-injury/

 

I would type the text I want to use - e.g. "details in this link".  Then highlight the word "link" and click on the handcuff symbol.  That will give you a box that you can put the URL in.

 

Details in this link

 

Job done! 

[alison]

Oh, so that's how you do it

[Fonty]

When I was trying to post a link to another website the other day, I used the handcuff link as that is the one I would normally use on websites, and it simply didn't work.  I just gave up in the end!

 

It may, of course, have something to do with Youtube and the links I was trying to post.  Some of them are a little temperamental, to put it mildly.

[Jan McNulty]

I don't use the handcuff for Youtube, I just post the whole link and 99 times out of 100 when you post you get the picture preview.

[alison]

Me too!