How to create a link in an answer.
April 27, 2016 1:31 PM

I was in a thread on shoes and went to a new tab and found a pair I wanted to recommend. I highlighted the URL, went back to the thread to the Comment box and pasted the URL into it. When I posted my Comment, the URL info was there but it wasn't live.

I notice others being able to have a link with a highlighted word, such as "these" or "here" but I don't know how to do that. Can someone enlighten me? Or point me to a learning experience elsewhere?
Thanks.
posted by MovableBookLady to Computers & Internet (2 answers total)

This post was deleted for the following reason: Heya, it's fine to ask this but since it's site-related the thing to do is ask it not here on Ask but over on MetaTalk, the site-discussion area of MetaFilter. Feel free to repost it there. -- cortex

Here is the FAQ on the issue:

If you use a modern browser, you'll see B/I/link buttons below the compose/comment box that you can use to add basic formatting. To make a link using the button, you highlight the word or phrase you want to be the link text (like the phrase "here is a link to example.com" above), click the link button, and type or paste the URL into the box that appears.
posted by crush-onastick at 1:33 PM on April 27, 2016


It's pretty basic html. See here: http://sandradodd.com/hotlink (or see here)
posted by jabes at 1:34 PM on April 27, 2016


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