Link embedding

[benenglish]

I've had a request to explain how to embed links. Here's how I do it.

First, I'm on a desktop, running Firefox. When I start composing a thread, part of the page looks like this:

 

[benenglish]

Note that between the title (Link Embedding) and the text (I've had a request...) there is a line of icons:

 

[benenglish]

The seventh icon from the left looks like a section of chain. That's the icon for "link".

To link anything in the post you're composing to any URL, you highlight the text you want to serve as a link then click the little chain icon. That gives you this:

 

[benenglish]

In the text box labelled "URL:", paste the URL of the page you want people to visit. For example, if I wanted this text to lead to a good deal on a revolver, I'd do this:

 

[benenglish]

At that point, you just click "Insert" and the highlighted text turns blue. The highlighted text has become a link to the web page I specified.

 

[benenglish]

Now, this works for me and my computer setup. If anyone has experience doing this in Tapatalk, I encourage you to post here. If that doesn't happen, I'll do some research on my own.

Also, if anyone has a desktop or laptop and is using a different browser and gets something that looks substantially different from what I've posted, please post your experiences.

I'm always interested in the ways TGT looks different on different hardware and software so if anyone can contribute to my education, I'd appreciate it.

Questions or comments?

 

[Bozz10mm]

I've never used the "link" icon. I just copy the address straight from the address bar of the page I want to link to and then paste it in the message box here.

Example: https://palmettostatearmory.com/

Now using the link icon: https://palmettostatearmory.com/

Same results

I'm on a desk top with Firefox btw.

 

[robertc1024]

I do the same thing as Bozz in Chrome.

 

[benenglish]

I've never used the "link" icon. I just copy the address straight from the address bar of the page I want to link to and then paste it in the message box here.

Yes, that works fine. However, the question I got was how to linkify (Is that a word?) a single word in a message. IOW, it's the difference between going to Google or going to https://www.google.com/

 

[AustinN4]

Edited: Never mind. Ben's post showed the live example.

 

[ZX9RCAM]

I use the method you describe Ben.
I am curious how some change the link into a "word", or "description" of the link, instead of the actual link verbiage?

 

[Dad_Roman]

I use the method you describe Ben.
I am curious how some change the link into a "word", or "description" of the link, instead of the actual link verbiage?

Yea, sorry just got back in.

Chrome on my laptop. Know how to move a link but where do you "re-label" it as in.......>>>>"click here for cheap goodies" (<<<colored...not linked)

 

[Dad_Roman]

Ahhhhh....IgotitIgotit!!!

You highlight your text in the post FIRST then linky a link onto it and it turns blue? I think I got it. Trying it below.....


Bens example of a good deal on a revolver

 

[Dad_Roman]

GotitGotit.....pretty darn happy about that.


Always something simple isnt it? Thanks so much for your time.

 

[benenglish]

I am curious how some change the link into a "word", or "description" of the link, instead of the actual link verbiage?

OK, I didn't explain something clearly, then. Does post #13 address your question? Or is it something else?

 

[Dad_Roman]

Yes you did say it clearly, I needed to READ it clearly...lol

Yes, post #13 was my test.....pass.

All good my man.

On my other sites you enter the url and apply it, then in your post it gives you a second URL but its highlighted blue so you put your cursor on it and type what you want it to actually read and the URL overwrites (dissappears) because it was highlighted.

 

[BRD@66]

I just do as Bozz does. I'm too simple-minded for the other.
And linkify is a perfectly cromulent word.

 

[ZX9RCAM]

OK, I didn't explain something clearly, then. Does post #13 address your question? Or is it something else?

It addresses it, but I don't get it .

 

[Dad_Roman]

S

It addresses it, but I don't get it .

................. Sup?

 

[Bozz10mm]

Okay, I get it now. Palmetto State Armory is now the link instead of all the http colon slash slash stuff. I was wondering how to do that too. Thanks Ben. After reading your first posts again, I see what you were saying.