Links can you do them?

[happycat]

O.K I am not dim on the whole but i can't seem to be able to do them.I have tried and tried only this morning.can anyone explain it in simple terms.I know it's beside the little box but still I have no joy.I see by some other posts I'm not the only one.Do i have to put in http/www. I'm confused.

me too

yes, you have to put in ALL of the address including the "http://" bit. Make sure the slashes are going the right way, too!

Nope, can't do them either. Followed the instructions to the letter and it still didn't work BUT I have always been bad at this sort of thing.
That's probably why I have lots of recipe books gathering dust as I can't be bothered to follow the instructions properly.......Hooo-Hum!

I can!
A link to this thread would be this

\link www.mumsnet.com/Talk?topicid=9&threadid=10243\this {} without the spaces by the curly brackets.

Now htat's weird... that last line looked right on the preview. If this doesn't work I give up

\linkhttp://www.mumsnet.com/Talk?topicid=9&threadid=10243\this{} without the after Link.

Sorry to be thick Soupy but how do you know the numbers etc where do you find the details of the link? TIA

I'd like to pretend I'm really clever and its terribly difficult but I just copied it from the address bar of internet explorer... If you click on the address bar, the address gets highlighted (does on mine anyway), then press the ctrl + Insert buttons together, this copies it. Click in the "add a message box" and press Shift + insert to paste it.

Or click on the address to highlight it, then right click, hit copy, then paste it where you want by right clicking again and hitting paste. Does that make sense?

explain lou33 still can't

I find in helpful to paste in the address including the http bit then add steps 1 - 3 at the start

1. \
2. link

then steps 4 - 6 at the end

4. \
5. this
6. {}

Note that at step 5 you do not have to type the word 'this'. Instead you could type 'here' or a description eg 'the site for good suggestions'.

HTH someone. It took me a few goes to figure it out when I first tried a couple of months ago.

butterfly

Ooops - strange, that was ok in preview but posted with a blip.

Step 3 should be

Step 6 should be {}

Note that these are curly brackets not ordinary ones.

Step 3 is an open curly bracket and step 6 the closed one The instructions in the box at the bottom seem fairly straight forward to me - I think the trick is to get the whole address to put in the middle.

I don't believe it, it happened again.

One of my curly brackets was next to step 3 and the other next to step 6.

I think this is why people are getting confused. Those of us trying to help are previewing our message, it looks ok, then when we post and look, it has changed - usually the brackets have moved onto the same line!

So, for steps 3 and 6 you should only type in a single bracket at each, not a double as shown.

Is that understandable - step 3 is a single bracket with the curly bit pointing left, step 6 is a curly bracket with the curly bit pointing right.

have a look at www.mwww.mumset.com/Talk?topicid=9&threadid=10243

1.) \
2.) link
3.)
4.) copy and paste the address you want, or just type it in including www. etc
5.) \
6.) Type whatever word you want it to link from (e.g "here", "this" )
7.) {}

Then preview and click the link you made to see if it works.

ooh how strange my brackets moved too!
it's never done that before!

number 3 should be , and number 7 should be {}

How odd it's done it again. Have a look next to the box where you add a message, I give up!

www.mumsnet.com\Talk?rn=96752&topicid=9threadid=10243{}

Oh bummer cant do it and off to the pub

here is my attempt again at soupdraagons instructions to this thread

ohh poo