Who knows how to change/insert a name into a hyperlink?

Was trying to make a youtube link be the name of the song, but despite at least 5 minutes of research.... I was unsuccessful.

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1983 300SD - 305000
1984 Toyota Landcruiser - 190000
1994 GMC Jimmy - 203000

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Are you referring to how to do it in a post on this forum?

I find an easy way to do this is to simply type the text that I want to appear directly in the post. Select that text, then click the "Insert Link" button in the editor (looks like a little blue planet Earth with a link of chain). A box pops up where one can enter the URL of the link.

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Well that works for the forum, Thanks!

Must be a way to do it in the HTML too...

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On some nights I still believe that a car with the fuel gauge on empty can run about fifty more miles if you have the right music very loud on the radio. - HST

1983 300SD - 305000
1984 Toyota Landcruiser - 190000
1994 GMC Jimmy - 203000

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Well, the forum software IS doing it in HTML - the procedure I gave is just doing the donkey work of formatting the HTML for you.

Try editing a post in which such a link is present, and you can see - in HTML - what it looks like.

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Yes indeed. Thanks Eskimo!

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On some nights I still believe that a car with the fuel gauge on empty can run about fifty more miles if you have the right music very loud on the radio. - HST

1983 300SD - 305000
1984 Toyota Landcruiser - 190000
1994 GMC Jimmy - 203000

https://media.giphy.com/media/X3nnss8PAj5aU/giphy.gif

Hey, you're welcome.

I've never spent the time to learn much about writing HTML. For what I need to do with it - eBay item descriptions, and a really simple web site - I just use KomPozer. It's a WYSIWYG editor, so purists will sneer at it, but it works for me.

Will KomPozer allow me to translate links to put in email?
I send myself links for things fairly often so I don't have to search for them again, and it would be cool to name the link so it's obvious to me a year later that the link goes to Replacing W123 rear axles....

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On some nights I still believe that a car with the fuel gauge on empty can run about fifty more miles if you have the right music very loud on the radio. - HST

1983 300SD - 305000
1984 Toyota Landcruiser - 190000
1994 GMC Jimmy - 203000

https://media.giphy.com/media/X3nnss8PAj5aU/giphy.gif

If I were sending myself an e-mail, and I wanted to send myself a link, then I'd do it the same way I originally described doing it in the forum software. Type in the text I want to appear, then select it, then tell it I wanted to insert a hyperlink, then tell it the URL (which all takes less time to do than it did to type this). That assumes that I'm using an e-mail client that is composing the message in HTML format.

It works similarly in the word processing software I use, too. So, you could easily put together your own document containing the hyperlinks you want, along with your notes and any other content you wanted to include - and even export it as a PDF document with the hyperlinks in it.

If all I needed was a document that included simple hyperlinks, then I'd do it one of those ways. I use KompoZer when I want to create a whole document as HTML (e.g., to use as an eBay item description, or as a page on my web site).

So things are so easy....

Thanks again for the remedial course in using forum/email software!

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On some nights I still believe that a car with the fuel gauge on empty can run about fifty more miles if you have the right music very loud on the radio. - HST

1983 300SD - 305000
1984 Toyota Landcruiser - 190000
1994 GMC Jimmy - 203000

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