http://www.raw-pleasure.com.au/

vs

RAW!


Yep that's it.  If you press the "quote" button you'll be able to see the difference in how it was written.

But basically it is:

[ url ]http://www.raw-pleasure.com.au/[ /url ]

vs

[ url=www.raw-pleasure.com.au/ ]RAW![ /url ]

But without the spaces either side of the [ ] symbols... I just put them there so it would show up as text instead of make more links!

Yay!   I was going to try to explain it as well,  but got my head in a muddles of how to explain how you put an = sign then the address, all within square brackets... and I would have been babbling on and getting everyone else confused as well as myself!

Much easier just to show it!

Yes, the HTML code will work on some forums but not others, it all depends if the forum administrators have enabled the use of embedded HTML within posts.  The use of the forum tags is usually accepted on all forums, unless links have been disabled completely.

But if you're writing a web page, then you'd have to use the html code - because it doesn't have the forum software working behind the scenes to tell it what to do with a [ url ] tag!

is how to do the HTML tag if anyone was interested in seeing how that one was written, too.

You're most welcome!  I've uh... been using forums for longer than I can remember, although I've never ran one to see the behind the scenes php code. 

I think I learnt HTML in 1995 before there were any software programs to do it for you...   Although it has surpassed me now with the amount of new things you can do with it!

Hehe, I hear you loud and clear there May!  DreamWeaver and other software like it creates so much unnecessary junk in the code!  And it's never formatted for easy reading.

I got a job once purely because I could understand HTML and debug their DreamWeaver code manually.  I'd make a point of formatting the sections I was working on in case any human ever had to go back to that piece of code - it would then be legible!  But when it comes out of that software, it is sometimes a complete nightmare to 'read', yuck.

I'd love to see the code behind a forum one day.  But since it is usually in a programming language I haven't learned, it may be difficult to understand.  I only know HTML, C, and some Java... and my knowledge of those was from first year University before I transferred out of the course

Yes I think we would be able to follow bits of it too    But having to alter it to fix something?  That'd be a whole different story!

& the code that Word generates..... oh..... that just makes me laugh.

I did it! I did a hyperlink in my journal! You wanna see? It's right HERE

Oh I did another one! I am a show off! Thanks again...

xooxxo