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Let'sgoflying!

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I have the secret code for message boards etc down ie if you want to bury the "http:" jazz behind a word such as:
you type {url=http://blahblahblah.com}Click Here{/url} where [] is inserted instead of the {} I used above

but what about email?
I have been given:

<a_href="http://blahblahblah.com">Click Here</a>

but it doesnt seem to work.
 
Take out the space between A HREF and see if that works, as that is a valid HTML tag. Otherwise, your mail client might be re-encoding it into ;gta_href so that it shows up on the other end just like you typed it rather than being read as HTML.
 
flyingcheesehead said:
Take out the space between A HREF
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no joy with that option - thanks for the ideas

Otherwise, your mail client might be re-encoding it into ;gta_href so that it shows up on the other end just like you typed it rather than being read as HTML.
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how do I tell it to stop?
I clicked Compose Messages in HTML and tried both with, and without the space - same result
 
Let'sgoflying! said:
how do I tell it to stop?
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Depends what your client is... ?

Not every client is aimed toward geeks... I'm sure there's plenty of clients out there that simply won't let you do that. Or, there might be an option where you just type "Click here" and then select it and add the URL.

So, of course, the real question is, what mail client do you use?
 
Well, for the code above there should be a space between the "a" and the "href", not an underscore, AFaIK. Of course it still may not work in Netscape.

HTML: 
<a href="http://www.aopa.org">aopa's web site</a>
 
<a href="http://www.aopa.org">aopa's website</a>

still appears as typed, rats.


So, of course, the real question is, what mail client do you use?
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ha, ha! My Real Question would be; "So why is this not standardized among mail clients (and 'easy to do'!)?
 
I also use Netscape 7.2 To put a URL in the email, click on the blank message area. Up at the top, the word "Insert" will turn to black letters. Click on it and you will see a dropdown list of things to insert. Click on "Link". A box will appear with a space for "Link Text" and a space for the URL. Put in your choice of Link Text and URL, click OK and it will be inserted in the message area. You can then compose a message and move the link to wherever you want it in the message. Hope this is what you want.
 
The insert button worked, thanks!
Thanks all!
It was previously always greyed out so I could not use it. You have to, as you say Noah, clicka ona the paga first.
 
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