How to make clickable links

There have been other posts about people having trouble making links clickable. Hopefully the admins will see these posts and figure out a way to make it easy like some other sites do.

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Took me awhile to get it - I actually studied BASIC and FORTRAN 35 years ago.

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That's because you're too biased towards John and need to give Paul, George, and Ringo some love too.

1) Copy this line to your computer somewhere...
< a href="StickYourLinkeeThingeeHere" > WhatYouGonnaCallIt < /a >

2) Remove the spaces before and after the bracket-mcjobbers and save it.

3) Now every time you want to insert a linkee-poo, copy it back to here, and change it to your URL and give it a name.

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lennonforever, check out the two templates on the bottom, and use these steps. Hopefully it works for you:

1) enter your web address in between the quotation marks.
2) enter your text in the "Name of webpage here" (or copy and paste the web address, if you wish).
3) remove any spaces if necessary, EXCEPT for the part where it says A HREF. That's the only one that needs to keep a space

Two templates you can use:
< A HREF = "http://the.webpage.com"; > Name of webpage here < /A >

example and template using MovieChat's address:

< A HREF = "http://moviechat.org"; > MovieChat Everybody! < /A >

removing the spaces should get you this clickable link:

MovieChat Everybody!

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Here is a picture of the code. Write it on a piece of paper exactly how you see it. Then paste your link in between the quotation marks and then put the page name between the brackets. See the red arrows? The first red arrow is where you insert your link. The second red arrow is where you type the page name (or just paste the link there too as well if you don't want to put a page name).

Movie Chat Code Picture

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http://www.thecalifornian.com/story/news/education/2015/07/09/bullies-roaming-salinas-schools-need-swift-taming/29938921/

It worked.

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Just to quick note, I made one mistake in my original post (thankfully, April-151-CT pointed it out to me).

I said to remove all spaces, but that is actually wrong. Remove all spaces EXCEPT for the one between "A HREF". Other than that, everything should work.

< A HREF = "http://the.webpage.com"; > Name of webpage here or any text you want < /A >

And in case you didn't see it, April-151-CT also posted this convenient picture telling you where to enter your URL/text:

Pic showing where to insert your URL and TEXT into template

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That's what we need here!!!! ::::crosses fingers::::

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took me awhile to get it:

https://s-media-cache-ak0.pinimg.com/originals/ea/f2/96/eaf296d59ed85e2b6b755d61bc4a9a0f.jpg

one space between the a and the h - no other spaces after that
paste your link between the quotation marks and paste your link between the > and < signs. You must paste twice.

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lennonforever, edited 'cause it didn't show what I actually typed. Bless!

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This method doesn't work anymore. Used to work :(

Actually it should still be working. I remember testing it out after Jim put out the latest updates (formatting additions such as italics[/i], bold, and url links)

I love that the new method is so much easier. But the older method, if one wanted to use it, should still work here. You can also customize your text with the older method.

Link to MovieChat.org

Link to [i]Fate of the Furious message board

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