How do I..........

[girlygirl]

Put a link on a AB page?

[jamwan55]

copy desired link
paste upon answer

lemon squeezy

[Quizmonster]

Highlight the address you want to link to and press Control and C for 'copy'. Go to your answer-slot and click Control and V to paste the address into your answer. Put your cursor at the front of the address...ie immediately before the 'http' and type Click followed by a left arrow < followed by A, then leave a space before typing href then = then " After that go to the end of the address and type " followed by a right arrow > followed by the word here followed by
In that way - unless I've messed the instructions up! - your message will be just "Click here" with the word 'here' in red and underlined.
I hope it works...if it doesn't. it will require only a small alteration to my advice, which I'm sure someone will provide.

[Quizmonster]

Oh dear! After the words 'the word here followed by' there should be a left arrow < then a slash / then an A then a right arrow >
I'm beginning to regret even starting this response, but give it a go!

[Quizmonster]

Click here for an expert's explanation. I don't know why I didn't just provide that link in the first place, Girly, as I already had it on record! My apology for wasting your time earlier.

[jenky]

Although please bear in mind that the term 'click here' is distinctly frowned upon by any web standards authority you care to mention...

(no offence to QM, who has proved helpful on several occasions)

[Quizmonster]

My apologies, Jenky...I've never even heard of a "web standards authority"!! Until I'm told it is compulsory that these people (whoever they are) are to be obeyed...and just who would tell me that?...I personally will go on doing things exactly the way I always have.
I like "click here"! It's succinct and successful...end of story. Cheers

[jenky]

Not end of story - especially after your ranting thread about 'oxen folk' the other day. You apparently got riled at the answers of others and here it is my turn. Secondly you have also clearly never heard of the convention about underlining words in websites that turn out not to be links. Bad practice all round.
Nothing is compulsory, far from it. The web community is simply split into those that care about standards, conventions and such like, and those that don't. You carry on as you like, taking offence where none is meant and good luck to you. I will continue to uphold the standards as laid out by Tim Berners Lee (remember him?), and the rest of the W3C.

p.s. It has long been understood that sarcasm doesn't work in print .

[Quizmonster]

Yes, it is end of story, certainly as far as I am concerned! And you're right...I have never heard of any "convention" about not underlining things that aren't links. To me, a "convention" is something that pretty well everyone accepts as a norm. How one "accepts" something when one has never heard of it is beyond me.
Who the hell are these people and why should I apply their "rules" to my writing?
Writing is an activity I have been performing perfectly successfully for over sixty years and some jumped-up "authority" is not going to persuade me to do it any other way. Thank you.

[jenky]

Who the hell are these people, you ask? Tim Berners-Lee invented the URL and subsequently the internet, giving it to you for free. Referring to him and the W3C as 'jumped up' just shows the attitude of a rather narrow minded self important individual. Unless of course that insult was aimed at me, in which case you need to read my post again. I simply state a fact or two. Why you need to reduce it to some kind of flame war is beyond me.

[Quizmonster]

I do hope, Girly, that my 'click here' response provided the answer you required. My apologies for the subsequent - utterly needless - hijacking of your thread. This will be my last contribution to it, I promise you.

In France, Jenky, there is an organisation known as L'Acad�mie Fran�aise...you may have heard of it. The supposed function of its members is to prescribe how the French people use their language. Sadly, perhaps, these recalcitrant creatures will persist in saying 'le weekend', 'le sandwich' and a host of other anglicisms despite that august body's abhorrence of them.

As regards myself, I have a Masters degree in English obtained over 40 years ago. Thereafter, I spent some decades teaching that subject, including at university level. I really, therefore, do not require a bunch of computer-nerds (I mean your "authority") to tell me how to use the language. Underlining is an absolutely standard method of emphasising text in English...that's why AnswerBank gives us the facility to use it...and nobody is going to tell me that I can no longer thus use it. Nobody...neither Tim Berners-Lee nor anyone else.

I've no idea why you started this debate. A lady asked a question and I answered it perfectly adequately. I shouldn't be surprised to learn that a substantial majority of AnswerBankers have never even heard of Tim Berners-Lee, never mind considering him an authority on English. Leave it at that...do.

[Quizmonster]

Oops...messed up the italics! What would Tim say?

[jenky]

You started the debate you arrogant little man. I merely added to the answers (read it again and it actually mentions how helpful I have previously found your answers) a pertinent fact that anybody involved with the design of websites would know.
The aggression in your retorts shows that your masters degree in an ever evolving language is clearly long forgotten. You have read an innocent comment and taken it as a personal attack. This is wrong. You may take the time to understand a medium before attacking others within it.
Your cerebral narcissism now clearly on show for all means you can scuttle away and find someone else to attack.

[kingrat]

phew!!!!!!!