How do you shorten a link?

[Brad_S.]

OK Furby, help this computer challenged user shorten things up.

How do I take a link like this:
http://cgi.ebay.com/30-8-10-CUT-BLACK-WALNUT-TREES-FOR-MILLING-INTO-LUMB_W0QQitemZ7709801222QQcategoryZ42354QQrdZ1QQcmdZViewItem
and just post "e-bay walnut" to serve as the link?
Did that make sense?
Thanks

[Furby]

Look for the hyperlink tab.
Third one in on the second line in the posting page.
Click it and: [ url]     [/url ] comes up.
After the l in the first URL add an = sign and then your link.
Move over and between the ] [  type what you want to show up.

It should look like this, but with out the spaces I'm adding after the l in the last [URL]:

e-bay walnut[/url    ]

[Brad_S.]

You da best, Furby! Thank you. 8)

[Furby]

You can go one step further and change colors and stuff:

e-bay walnut

[tnlogger]

furby you the mna i'vr thinking how to do this for awile thanks

[Furby]

I had one of my links shortened a long time ago by one of the Admins.
It bugged me that I didn't know how to do that, so I dug around and learned how!
Always glad to show someone how to do tricks like that, just gotta ask! ;)
If I don't know how........ya give me something to figure out! ;D

There is a test thread around here someplace, play around with some of the options on the posting page.
Check out this link:
https://forestryforum.com/board/index.php?topic=7390.msg137424#msg137424

[DouginUtah]

What a coincidence. About six hours ago Tom sent me the instructions to do this very thing.

I had tried to do it using plain html coding but it didn't work, so I asked for help and Tom came through for me--in the ethanol thread.

Thanks, Tom. And good on you too, Furby.

-Doug

[Jeff]

For all of you that have never noticed the help link in the menu bar,  It explains on how to do all of that kind of thing. here is a link to the section that includes the answers to this question and more.

LINK

[Furby]

Shhhhhhh...............
Don't let my secrets out! ;)

[Jeff]

oops. Have I revealed the location of Furby's stash?  :D

[Jeff]

Here is something new for you furby, you know how you left a space in the tag in the post above to show how the code is used?  That is what the code tag is used for 8)

Example:

Code Select Expand

[url=https://forestryforum.com/board/index.php?topic=13874.msg195332#msg195332]Link to my previous post[/url]

[Furby]

Yup, that's a new one.......gonna have to remember that one.
Thanks!

I guess I should point out that most of what I know about the forum has been gleaned from the Admins. Some I just figured out or read the help page on, but the bulk comes from them. ;)

[Kirk_Allen]

OK, you all can ignore this but I had to at least try this to make sure I understood all this CODE you computer guys use.


TEST