Subject: So how do you post a hyperlink

I've searched posts both subject and body and in the FAQ they said to cut and paste into the box at the bottom....there is no such box on mine.

Copy the link to the clipboard.

Type a description for the link or past the link from the clipboard. I assume so far so good.

Now select the text you have typed or pasted. There should pop up a menu. For example you can make it bold or italic or underlined  or

colored or click the rightmost one to paste your link you have already copied to the clipboard. 

  I'm using a macbook, so it may be different from the operating system you are using.   On the only other message board I post to, I just do a cut and paste and it works. Not sure how to access clipboard on my computer.  I guess didn't understand the instructions that I rec'd after googleing it....it said do "control + command + v" which didn't work for me.  I do appreciate your reply and giving such detailed answers, I guess I will keep reading and trying and eventually i'll accomplish it.  thanks

If you can cut/copy and paste, that should be OK. Forget about the clipboard.

And you can select a text, right? I point the cursor to the start or the end of the text, press the mount button and drag the mouse without releasing the mouse button. Or even click to the start or the end of the text, press and hold shift key and start marking the text with the left/right arrow key. A menu should pop up for you. (At least that's how it works for me)

ChatGPT has this to say for it:

To create a hyperlink using Summernote on a MacBook, you can follow these steps:

1. First, make sure you are in edit mode within the Summernote editor on the webpage.
2. Select the text or image you want to turn into a hyperlink.
3. Click on the "Link" button in the toolbar. It usually looks like a chain link symbol.
4. A dialog box should appear. Enter the URL you want to link to in the "URL" field.
5. Optionally, you can specify the target attribute (e.g., _blank to open the link in a new tab).
6. Click "OK" or "Insert" to create the link.

The first step should be OK when you are writing a post here.

- How can I select the text or image on a MacBook?

ChatGPT:

This is how I do it (and unfortunately, Denny, our master and leader, has not seen fit to give detailed instructions on how to do this).......

I think you can even edit your original post with the SRV mention pretty easily.  But I'm not in the Apple universe, so can't say for sure. 

First, click on the "Edit your post" thing at the bottom.  Then highlight/select your link that you already posted, and then right click, and TWO menus will pop up, and unfortunately again, they often overlap each other.  So it's like Hop says above, But you have to *find* the correct of the two menus.  One will be, as he notes, all about color choices, etc.  But the other, smaller, linear one has, at the far right of the box, a smaller box with the hyperlink symbol.  Click on that, and then it'll open a 2-choice 'menu' about how to display your hyperlink.  Generally people choose the one that says "open in a new tab".  Do that, then go back to the bottom and click on "update your post".  Hope that does it for you. 

"Then highlight/select your link that you already posted, and then right click, and TWO menus will pop up, and unfortunately again, they often overlap each other."

You don't have to right click. Upon finishing your selection the menu automatically pops up (as can be seen below).

Wow, I'm blown away by how helpful you guys are, my sincere gratitude.   I should be able to do it now.  I'll get back to you if it not...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sFzZIArP0q8  hey i did thanks, if you wanna see some incredible guitarist click on it!!!

Just put a link in and it turns hyper all on it's own. Most of the time. Maybe you had a slow connection.

It's been mysterious to me since Denny initiated this feature.  At first, it seemed like indeed, often it would "turn into" a hyperlink "on its own", but that phenomenon dwindled, and almost never happens now (my experience, at least).  So.....when I post a link from my phone, I have to wait 'til I get on my 'real' computer, and go thru "the process" to turn it into a hyperlink. 

Give it a few seconds, you'll see it turn green 

The key is to put a space or line break (RETURN or ENTER) after the link. A link placed at the end of a post with no space or ENTER will stay inactive. 

Link: https://www.yahoo.com/?guccounter=1

No link: https://www.yahoo.com/?guccounter=1

To Screaming: the clipboard is where something goes after you cut or copy it. You can do it here with pictures too. 

To TN: you have no idea what those pixels have to go through to get there.

https://youtu.be/BEhPQBMxLfA?si=XFNqybcf4taQX0YU

Bzz: you have to jiggle the handle 

That's an AMAZING tidbit of knowledge, Buzz.  How hard would it have been for Denny to have told us that?!?!?!?!?!??????!!!!!!

And outskirts..........they *used to* turn green, but almost always now they don't.  

Wow. But BC just told you how to fix that and you seemed to get that. And Denny didn't mention that because he just doesn't think of such rudimentary and instinctual stuff. Like we just assume without thinking that everyone knows 2+2. 

"Instinctual"??  Hardly. I'm (very) from being the only one who had no idea about that.  Putting a space after the link?  No way that's "instinctual". 

*snicker* Is that the official mansplanation?

I came very, very, very, VERY close to adding "What we need around here is some better mansplanation."  Denny, for all his wonderful talents, and the bells and whistles he's added to this playground, is NOT a mansplainer of all these bells and whistles.  So, no, of course my response is not a mansplantion, 'cause I do *not* know how these things he throws in work.  That's the problem(s). 

Alternatively...............................some good womansplanation would work just fine - or perhaps be even better.  Altho womansplanation tends to be in short supply around here throughout this site's history, unfortunately.  IMO.

I explained what the clipboard is, and I explained a much much easier way to post a hyperlink. I also explained how sometimes a little patience is necessary. And might I add, maybe keep trying. Stop overthinking. And try to get out more. Don't blame me or Dennis for your obtusity.  You're welcome. 

Womansplanation 

When a man who is my friend IRL for @ 40 years so I know him well and he knows me well, starts ordering me around like he is wont to do, I have to remind him that I'm not his personal assistant, nurse, secretary (when he tells me to google something for him) or any of that, and sometimes I have to ask if he has a broken arm, leg, or failing brain. So I think I'm being kind to strangers on the internet when I offer them help that they asked for. But I'm not your search engine. 

"Instinctual"??  Hardly. I'm (very) from being the only one who had no idea about that.  Putting a space after the link?  No way that's "instinctual". 

Is so. 

"The key is to put a space or line break (RETURN or ENTER) after the link. A link placed at the end of a post with no space or ENTER will stay inactive. "

I didn't know this. Because I never add a link that way. I copy the url, but I don't paste it directly. I enter a description text for the link and then select it using the mouse, a menu pops up and I select the chain option to enter the link details.

One of us (at least 😄) must be very confused - as I don't recall asking you for help with anything.  Or certainly not recently.  And if you think I was specifically referring to you when I suggested we need more womansplanation around here, that would be incorrect. Only noting that women in general sometimes have a different, better perspective on things.

>> Date: Mon Apr 15 11:17:09 2024
>> User: HopDiriDiriDattiriDittiriDom
>> Message: "I didn't know this. Because I never add a link that way."

Your approach is more elegant and takes full advantage of the software, resulting in a link embedded in text. I greatly prefer reading posts created with the method you describe. I rarely on links that are simply plopped into the textbox with no explanation, no context, or no title. 

outskirts: "Is so."

No, it's not. I post links, in a similar fashion, on multiple other sites, and in emails, etc.  I've *never* encountered this problem anywhere else. 

Clearly even Hop, who is quite internet-savvy, didn't know it.  AND...........I just a short while ago I tried to post the link about the new discus record from my phone - and it still did not work as a hyperlink, even when adding a space.  (I came back and edited it on the PC.)  So there's more to it than even that, altho that's apparently more a phone vs. PC issue.  

And..........it wasn't me who didn't know what the "clipboard" is.  On top of you being dead-wrong about the hyperlink issue being "instinctual".  Enough.  Go find some other windmills or strawmen to tilt at.

Are your most severe problems while posting on your phone, TN? I seem to recall you saying so. I seldom post here on my phone, and certainly nothing fancy (is a link fancy?). 

I do it on my phone usually but sometimes on a tablet. I prefer not being yoked to a computer 

I'm not going to nitpick with the nitpick king. 

Wow TN are you bitter? You're coming off that way.

No, I'm right. I'm not dead wrong.

From a few weeks ago on this very discussion board, an excellent way to identify those indulge in mansplaining: "Mansplainers are the same ones who cannot answer a question honestly with 'I don't know' to save their lives." 

I'd point out the mansplaining is not gender-specific. 

Carry on with your sausage fest, but leave me out of it. And again, YOU'RE WELCOME.

ctrl-k will open the Insert Link dialog

the problem i usually have is starting a new message.... trying to get the message box in focus. i do this by clicking on the first line before typing (where ctrl-k is in this message)

ctrl-k puts the focus in the search box here. So I guess what you speak of is something Chrome-specific.

you have to have the Message: box in focus, then ctrl-k

ctrl-k also brings up the Insert Link in Edge.

So odd that this board's quirks are browser and/or OS specific. 

OK. Works!

test

If my friend needed medical assistance I'd give it in a heartbeat. By "I'm not your nurse" I meant the kind who hands the tools to the doctor. I'm not entirely cold hearted. Not that I care if you care. 

Are you mansplaining your definition of womansplaining? ;)

Hop, your freecel.net link is an invite to catastrophe.

frecel.net

There be dragons. 

Bzz: you thought that was a definition? That's sad 

"frecel.net

Looks like somebody guessed that somebody would mistype it someday. And it happened.

Buzz: "Are your most severe problems while posting on your phone, TN? I seem to recall you saying so."

Yes, by far.  For some reason, I've always been unable to specify a certain amount of text to highlight.  One word, yes.  Or a link, yes.  But not, say, a paragraph or sentence.  Therefore, I cannot call up the 'double menu', one of which is the links manipulations.  And..........as I noted earlier.........*almost* never will a link I post from my phone show up as a hyperlink.  It *has* happened, but very rarely.  And that, as I showed yesterday, is not affected by adding a space after the link.  There is definitely some secret sauce, or combination, to getting all this to work correctly.  But I know, as Denny has repeatedly told us, there are so many configurations of software, hardware, atmospheric pressure, and alignment of planets, that it's hard to get everything all (non-planetarily) lined up at the same time. 

Further, to add to some comments others made yesterday about the "dialogue box", and it being "in focus".  I've NEVER seen it out of focus.  But what *is* a problem is that one must put the cursor right in the top left corner of the box in order to begin typing.  When Denny added the capability of doing links this 'new' way, he never told us that not-tiny detail.  I got pretty frustrated trying to post stuff there for a week or so, and somebody (you?) instructed me of that nuance.  How could one be expected to guess that, when heretofore, putting the cursor anywhere in the "box" worked?!?  So........no, that was nowhere near "instinctual", either.  [And NOT trying to open that discussion back up again.  Just documenting another lack of a proper mansplanation.]  But I'm completely unaware of the box ever being out of focus. 

well... i suppose the guy who created this problem could gather these useful tidbits and update the out-of-date help text buried deep in FAQ and create a link directly to it near the Message: box

Hmm... i wonder... who could that be...