Link tags? By richardv (Read 1,810 times)

[richardv]

I used to know how but have forgotten over the years of inactivity. When posting a link to an internet site how do you show it as just a descriptive word or phrase in red? It is a lot nicer looking in a sentence than the whole link.

[tvnacman]

I would like to learn how to do this .

John

[Bashan]

You click the link button....it looks like this in the row of icons: When you click it there is a space for the URL of the link, and then a space for text. Whatever you want to show up as the link descriptor...enter in the text space. If you type in Scooter Doc, it shows up like this: Scooter Doc. Don't forget to click the create link button when you're done or nothing happens.

[cyborg]

And me makes three

[JR]

I'll give you 2 ways to do it, first one is just like Rich said, hit the  icon in the menu bar and when the pop up box appears just put in the "Name" of the site in the line that say TEXT and the URL in the spot for it:  Scooter Doc  or put in the URL from the site you want to list and as he said hit Create Link and it will appear as  link

Now If you want to do it the old fashioned way then if you know HTML code you can code it this way and make it work. =

link

Which is coded like this:

[a href="http://www.thescooterprofessor.proboards.com/"]link[/a]

or even like this:

Scooter Professor

[a href="http://www.thescooterprofessor.proboards.com/"]Scooter Professor[/a]

[cyborg]

Thanks you guys

[tvnacman]

I will try this over the weekend .

John

[richardv]

Thanks guys. I was thinking of the HTML code method but will try the other method when the need arises.

[Deleted]

here is a short html tutorial for those that want/need it

**a href="yourwebsite.com" target="_blank" rel="nofollow"**DESCRIPTIVE TEXT**/a**

so that the above code is not an active link I have replaced the left and right arrows (< >) with dual astericks

opening tag = a left arrow introduces the code to a browser and must have a closing right arrow. All statements in the opening tag must be enclosed within quotation marks (" ").

opening tag types:
a = link
img = image
iframe = capture a video or even a website and display it
there are other opening tag types but this covers the most used

statements:

href = is the link
target= as shown opens the link in a new tab/window
rel = is a website authority transfer or not. as coded it is no follow. to make it follow just remove no

closing tag = this must have a left arrow follwed by a right slant(/) and the opening tag type (a,img,iframe) and a right arrow key

between the opening and closing tags is the DESCRIPTIVE TEXT, which can be anything and can have all the normal text attributes such as bold, italic, underline, strikethru, and color

[richardv]

Thanks again, it's saved, printed and filed with my ASCII code list.

[JR]

Aug 29, 2014 11:35:59 GMT -6 bull said:

here is a short html tutorial for those that want/need it

**a href="yourwebsite.com" target="_blank" rel="nofollow"**DESCRIPTIVE TEXT**/a**

so that the above code is not an active link I have replaced the left and right arrows (< >) with dual astericks

opening tag = a left arrow introduces the code to a browser and must have a closing right arrow. All statements in the opening tag must be enclosed within quotation marks (" ").

opening tag types:
a = link
img = image
iframe = capture a video or even a website and display it
there are other opening tag types but this covers the most used

statements:

href = is the link
target= as shown opens the link in a new tab/window
rel = is a website authority transfer or not. as coded it is no follow. to make it follow just remove no

closing tag = this must have a left arrow follwed by a right slant(/) and the opening tag type (a,img,iframe) and a right arrow key

between the opening and closing tags is the DESCRIPTIVE TEXT, which can be anything and can have all the normal text attributes such as bold, italic, underline, strikethru, and color

We have code function here so the asterisk are not necessary and with the above code you do not use <> tags on posts rather brackets [  ]  Proboards < > are used in the programing of the forum itself.

When wanting to show HTML code here you can give the complete correct code by using the   button

[a href="yourwebsite.com"]DESCRIPTIVE TEXT[/a]

Iframe is frowned on by Proboards and a lot of other sites. List of supported BBCodes by Proboards for posts.

support.proboards.com/thread/523784/supported-bbcode

[Deleted]

JR,

Some of your statements are relevant ONLY to proboards and all of its' subdomains.

Facts:

• HTML5, the latest version of the Hypertext Markup Lamguage as well as all previous version use left and right arrows for proper coding.
  
• W3C is considered the authority for properly coded html and you can find them at w3c.org
• All major search engines (Bing/Yahoo, Baidu, Google, etc) demand properly coded sites including links for easy indexing by their spiders. IF a site uses a non conventional HTML code it must state that in the header. Also non comventional links will most likely not be indexed by them.
• 40% of all websites are Wordpress (20%+) and Joomla (19%+) and both of those platforms use correct HTML, not what you consider HTML. PHP coded sites require properly coded HTML. And of course hard coded sites use html. What percentage of websites do PHP and hard coded comprise I do not know the exact percentage.
• Even JS relies on properly coded html.

I draw your attention to the 'source code' for this page and on line 1 it clearly states HTML (<!DOCTYPE HTML>). It also on line 11 states "text/html". No where in the header does it state anything about unconventional code.

Then one must conclude that the proboards and its subdomains use a non conventional type coding, which incedentially maybe harming the subdomains hosted there.

As to iframe being frowned upon on many sites, I find that extremely hard to believe. All one needs to do is go to youtube (owned by google), click on the share button, then the embed button and the user will be presented with a properly coded iframe for that video. eg:

<iframe width="560" height="315" src="//www.youtube.com/embed/yUw-aTOwAw8" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen></iframe>

So, if it is "frounded up by Proboards and a lot of other sites", why does google/youtube supply the code?

ADDITIONAL INFORMATIONAL POINTS:

for the OP or anyone else interested, you can use the width and height statements (see code above) to adjust an image or video to fit your purpose.

Another note for interestewd parties, the anchor link text (DESCRIPTIVE TEXT) vary it greatly, no more that 30% of your links should include a specific keyword. If you want to know the exact blend, then watch matt cutts of google's videos on youtube.

Nothing personal, but for me, when I HTML code I will use correct code or none at all.

[JR]

Aug 29, 2014 15:16:08 GMT -6 bull said:

JR,

Some of your statements are relevant ONLY to proboards and all of its' subdomains.

Facts:

• HTML5, the latest version of the Hypertext Markup Lamguage as well as all previous version use left and right arrows for proper coding.
  
• W3C is considered the authority for properly coded html and you can find them at w3c.org
• All major search engines (Bing/Yahoo, Baidu, Google, etc) demand properly coded sites including links for easy indexing by their spiders. IF a site uses a non conventional HTML code it must state that in the header. Also non comventional links will most likely not be indexed by them.
• 40% of all websites are Wordpress (20%+) and Joomla (19%+) and both of those platforms use correct HTML, not what you consider HTML. PHP coded sites require properly coded HTML. And of course hard coded sites use html. What percentage of websites do PHP and hard coded comprise I do not know the exact percentage.
• Even JS relies on properly coded html.

I draw your attention to the 'source code' for this page and on line 1 it clearly states HTML (<!DOCTYPE HTML>). It also on line 11 states "text/html". No where in the header does it state anything about unconventional code.

Then one must conclude that the proboards and its subdomains use a non conventional type coding, which incedentially maybe harming the subdomains hosted there.

As to iframe being frowned upon on many sites, I find that extremely hard to believe. All one needs to do is go to youtube (owned by google), click on the share button, then the embed button and the user will be presented with a properly coded iframe for that video. eg:

<iframe width="560" height="315" src="//www.youtube.com/embed/yUw-aTOwAw8" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen></iframe>

So, if it is "frounded up by Proboards and a lot of other sites", why does google/youtube supply the code?

ADDITIONAL INFORMATIONAL POINTS:

for the OP or anyone else interested, you can use the width and height statements (see code above) to adjust an image or video to fit your purpose.

Another note for interestewd parties, the anchor link text (DESCRIPTIVE TEXT) vary it greatly, no more that 30% of your links should include a specific keyword. If you want to know the exact blend, then watch matt cutts of google's videos on youtube.

Nothing personal, but for me, when I HTML code I will use correct code or none at all.

All of my comments were associated with what we use "here" nothing else and we use the Proboards servers, right or wrong as far as far as how they code or structure their codes is all that matters here, want to use any codes anywhere then that's your right and choice, when offering advice here on any we use as far as Proboards is concerned then stick with what is formatted here, want to look at their page layout then simply hit the F12 button as you probably already know.

I draw your attention to the 'source code' for this page and on line 1 it clearly states HTML (<!DOCTYPE HTML>). It also on line 11 states "text/html". No where in the header does it state anything about unconventional code.

Then one must conclude that the proboards and its subdomains use a non conventional type coding, which incedentially maybe harming the subdomains hosted there.

I am very aware of that and that is the base code format that Proboards uses and unlike the last version V4 they now allow admins with authority to change, add to, or modify their forum layout with HTML coding. I've made lot of changes/additions to this forum and others.

•Even JS relies on properly coded html

Ok so again what does this have to do with linking in a post which was the question. I've used javascript code throughout this forum and even the page up and down arrows to the right are a code I made.

<script>
function getDocHeight() {
var D = document;
return Math.max(
D.body.scrollHeight, D.documentElement.scrollHeight,
D.body.offsetHeight, D.documentElement.offsetHeight,
D.body.clientHeight, D.documentElement.clientHeight
);
}

window.onscroll = function()
{
var scrollTop = (window.pageYOffset !== undefined) ? window.pageYOffset : (document.documentElement || document.body.parentNode || document.body).scrollTop;
if(scrollTop >= getDocHeight()/2)
{document.getElementById('scrollerbutton').src="http://www.chinesescooterreference.com/jr/images_CR/z9.gif"}
else
{document.getElementById('scrollerbutton').src="http://www.chinesescooterreference.com/jr/images_CR/z10.gif"}
}

</script>


<div style="position: absolute; height: 320%; "> </div>
<img id="scrollerbutton" alt="" src="http://www.chinesescooterreference.com/jr/images_CR/z10.gif" style="position: fixed; right: 1px; top: 40%"onclick="if(this.src=='http://www.chinesescooterreference.com/jr/images_CR/z10.gif'){scroll(0,document.body.scrollHeight);} else scroll(0,0)">




Not bad for a high school graduate with no education about HTML or any other kind of coding and learned this from places like this:

www.w3schools.com/

Even the ad scroll you see at the top of the forum is a plugin as Proboards calls them that I made form a combination of HTML and javascript coding, again not bad for a amateur.

As far as iframe is concerned and Proboards is not the only people who don't like it:

resources.infosecinstitute.com/iframe-security-risk/

www.hyperarts.com/blog/facebook-secure-browsing-https-iframe-tabs-mixed-content-warnings/

I'll say again they restrict it and won't allow it to be used in common posts. It has come up on several occasions at the support forum and you can read Ricky's response here about how Proboards sees the issue with iframe:

support.proboards.com/thread/523592/embedding-pdf-word-docs

Yes there are a few iframe functions they allow but not in posts to threads, I use this to stop videos from being used in the signatures here since most videos especially You tube are iframe coded.

<style type="text/css">
.signature iframe, .signature object { display: none; }
</style>



Google along with Chrome, don't use them because of their BS crap and not going to get into any debate over it either.

BTW nothing personal but I never said not to code correctly, just said this is how the link button and the code for it in a "post" is how it's done here.

We had people ask how to link here in post on a thread, again there are two ways and both ways were given and were explained how to use and that's good enough.

JR

[richardv]

I'm sorry. Really sorry.

I didn't mean to start anything. Please don't ban me.

I'll stick to the old way. I promise.

[JR]

Aug 30, 2014 11:09:50 GMT -6 richardv said:

I'm sorry. Really sorry.

I didn't mean to start anything. Please don't ban me.

I'll stick to the old way. I promise.