Another dumb Simon technical question

[SimonDoom]

This seems so basic I'm embarrassed to ask about it, but here goes. When you post a link to one of your stories in a thread post, how do you make it appear so only the name of the story appears, rather than the full URL link? I can't figure out how to do this. The way others do it looks so much cleaner.

 

[OffNSFW]

In the toolbar above the box you're typing in, there's an icon like two chainlinks that will help you format a link as text.

 

[TheLobster]

If you just paste the URL, it will get linkified but the link text will be the URL itself

When you click on the chain icon above the post textbox, you'll get a popup with URL and Text. In there, you can enter a custom text label for the link

 

[Candy_Kane54]

Type the name of the story and then highlight it. Clink on the icon and paste the URL in the space provided.

 

[TarnishedPenny]

The only dumb question, Simon, is the one not asked.

 

[MrPixel]

What the others suggested, or the direct markup version, which I use (since I'm familiar with it). In this example, I'm using '{' and '}' where you actually should use '[' and ']':

{url=HTTPS://(your pasted HTTPS here)}Story Name Here{/url}

There's a third way - from your story list, highlight the name, copy, and then paste into your thread post. That's it. LitE has already formatted it for you.

 

[SimonDoom]

Thank you! My God, I actually did it right thanks to the advice. I feel like a new man.

 

[NotWise]

This seems so basic I'm embarrassed to ask about it, but here goes. When you post a link to one of your stories in a thread post, how do you make it appear so only the name of the story appears, rather than the full URL link? I can't figure out how to do this. The way others do it looks so much cleaner.

Similar to html, your have "url=your url" surrounded by square brackets, then your title then "/url" surround by square brackets. Omit the quotation marks. (Lit won't let me enter the square brackets).

The system is called BBCode, and you can find detailed instructions by googlings "bbcode".

 

[SimonDoom]

If you just paste the URL, it will get linkified but the link text will be the URL itself

When you click on the chain icon above the post textbox, you'll get a popup with URL and Text. In there, you can enter a custom text label for the link

Thanks. All the responses have been helpful but this is the one that walked me through it the best. Appreciated.

One down on the endless "Stuff Simon doesn't know" list.

 

[OffNSFW]

On a personal note, I used to have a lot of the bbcode stuff memorized. (Not an expert; just someone who's been extremely online since before the term "extremely online" existed.) A lot of that old knowledge has faded, because Lit is one of the few places left that still behaves like the early WWW. I have to admit, it's kind of nice to have this connection to a time when the Internet had some personality.

 

[TheWritingGroup]

As a keyboarder more than a mouser, I tend to use the Ctrl-K keyboard shortcut for "link" (which works in almost every program and most web sites, these days).

-Annie

 

[Britva415]

As a keyboarder more than a mouser, I tend to use the Ctrl-K keyboard shortcut for "link" (which works in almost every program and most web sites, these days).

-Annie

Very good. And it really is a "shortcut."

One can type the text they want to appear as a link, select and highlight it, then use ctrl-K to bring up the form for pasting the URL in. Such fast. Very works.

 

[pink_silk_glove]

Thank you! My God, I actually did it right thanks to the advice. I feel like a new man.

My marriage didn't last. My husband stepped out of the shower and said, "Ahh, I feel like a new man." I said, "Yeah, so do I."