MikeBCda
January 19th, 2004, 01:19 PM
Hi all,
This is in reference to LWM's post this morning about problems with posting links, here (http://www.wilderssecurity.com/showthread.php?t=19869). The FAQ's are an administrative thread which doesn't permit replies, so I'm doing this here instead. LWM or whoever, feel free to copy-and-paste this to wherever if you feel it will be helpful.
LWM, you'd commented on the difficulty in trying to demonstrate "url" coding without making it a real link, so I'm passing along a trick we teach at boards which use UBB, probably as-near-as-dammit to YaBB coding.
To make coding visible but inactive, which is essentially what you were trying to do, simply add a space after each opening bracket. So my "here" link in the first paragraph would look like [ url=http://www.wilderssecurity.com/showthread.php?t=19869]here[ /url].
And of course remind everyone to remove those spaces if they want the link (or other coding) to work.
Another trick (for non-mods and non-admins, that is) is to simply "modify" someone else's post -- that way you can see the code behind an interesting-looking effect. And you can't change it, if someone else posted it, only view it.
Best to all,
Mike
This is in reference to LWM's post this morning about problems with posting links, here (http://www.wilderssecurity.com/showthread.php?t=19869). The FAQ's are an administrative thread which doesn't permit replies, so I'm doing this here instead. LWM or whoever, feel free to copy-and-paste this to wherever if you feel it will be helpful.
LWM, you'd commented on the difficulty in trying to demonstrate "url" coding without making it a real link, so I'm passing along a trick we teach at boards which use UBB, probably as-near-as-dammit to YaBB coding.
To make coding visible but inactive, which is essentially what you were trying to do, simply add a space after each opening bracket. So my "here" link in the first paragraph would look like [ url=http://www.wilderssecurity.com/showthread.php?t=19869]here[ /url].
And of course remind everyone to remove those spaces if they want the link (or other coding) to work.
Another trick (for non-mods and non-admins, that is) is to simply "modify" someone else's post -- that way you can see the code behind an interesting-looking effect. And you can't change it, if someone else posted it, only view it.
Best to all,
Mike