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Good evening clever people.

Can anyone explain to me in terms that an ATPL-student can understand how to turn a link in a PPRuNe posting like this (for example):

<a href="http://uk.dir.yahoo.com/Recreation/Automotive/" target="_blank">http://uk.dir.yahoo.com/Recreation/Automotive/</a>

into a working link without all the http:// gubbins etc showing, just a piece of text saying what the links about.

If you know what I mean. <img src="confused.gif" border="0">

[ 10 January 2002: Message edited by: Blackshirt ]</p>

Blackshirt: First up, I dont fit into any of the qualifications you described, but ....

There is a group of ten buttons next to the "Instant Graemlins" selection where we type in our forum replies.
Press the "URL" button, have your URL link ready to type/paste and blindly follow each prompt until the whole process is finished.

no problem at all...
i type this now with spaces, otherwise it would not show how to spell...

let's say you want to give a link to the chat abbreviations and this link would show up as
[ url ] <a href="http://www.loganact.com/tips/afaik.html" target="_blank">http://www.loganact.com/tips/afaik.html</a> [ / url ]
but you want to simply have a link named go here
in this case just type [ url = <a href="http://www.loganact.com/tips/afaik.html" target="_blank">http://www.loganact.com/tips/afaik.html</a> ] go here [ / url ]

if you type this in without the spaces it gives you
<a href="http://www.loganact.com/tips/afaik.html" target="_blank"> go here </a>
this is made for pilots, thats why it is simple... :) :) :)

[ 10 January 2002: Message edited by: FL310 ]</p>

...err, <a href="http://www.crayola.com" target="_blank">like this?</a>

Thanks guys!

(Still took 2 goes to get it right!)

[ 10 January 2002: Message edited by: Blackshirt ]

[ 10 January 2002: Message edited by: PPRuNe Dispatcher ]</p>

Yeah, like that, Blackshirt.

Err, just a word of warning - many a PPRuNer has been banned for putting links up to sites like that.

Just a friendly warning, mate. <img src="smile.gif" border="0">