How do you reference the posts with a link? Can you show me?
Do you require instruction on obtaining a URL to a specific posting, or on creating a link to a specified URL?
All postings on FreeRepublic are noted by a number below the text of the post. This number is a link to the post itself. If you right-click on that number and choose "Copy Link Location", your operating system will save that specific link to its "clipboard". You can then 'paste' that link via Ctrl-V or an equivalent command in any text editing box.
To create a link within a posting, you will need to format it with proper HTML. An example, referencing my own posting:
<a href="http://freerepublic.com/focus/news/1625993/posts?page=449#449">This is an example link</a>.
Will produce
This is an example link.
You begin by denoting an HTML code statement with the less-than character, <. You then denote a link with "a href=", followed by the URL -- in this case the URL to my own posting -- in quotation marks, then you close the HTML code with the greater-than character, >. That will tell web browsers to link the text following that line of HTML to the URL within the code. When you have typed the full text that you wish to comprise your link, you close the link with the "/a" code in another set of less than and greater than symbols.
Another example, to link the word "another" in the sentence "This is another example." to http://www.example.com.
This is <a href="http://www.example.com/">another</a> example.
Will produce:
This is
another example.