[Aquamarine]

Was wondering if one of you that uses a photo shop could make a diagram showing how to use the - a href html command to make a long link shorter by giving the link a name to click on.

I've tried to type up the commands but it won't show up without the < bracket's. If it was made as a meme in the photo shop then posted here the whole post would show up.

[Cletus.D.Yokel]

I typically use these guys:

https://www.w3schools.com/TAGS/att_href.asp

[numberonepal]

I think you're asking for what is between the anchor tag (<a href=blah>) where blah is some ridiculously long URL. A lot of times people wrap the actual URL with the anchor tags. The long link as an attribute in the anchor tag is not seen by the user, but what's seen is between the opening and closing tags. What you want to do is put something other than the URL in between the tags.

For example if you have a link like:
http://freerepublic.com/focus/chat/3840032/posts?page=731#731 you'd just want to use that as the attribute and then provide some text in between the tags. This is how you'd do it:

<a href=http://freerepublic.com/focus/chat/3840032/posts?page=731#731 target=_new>See my post here.</a>

This would render as:

See my post here.

The target (target=_new) attribute is telling the browser to open the link in a new tab. This is good practice for discussion boards so the user doesn't lose their place.

[numberonepal]

I've tried to type up the commands but it won't show up without the < bracket's.

FR is seeing the brackets as html is why. If you want to post html you have to use the html character for the "brackets". < is less than written as &lt;. > is greater than written as &gt;.