Help, Please With LJ Coding.

[debris4spike]

As I now have some extra time, I have been trying to get some of the many things organised I have been meaning to do for ages.  Some will have to wait till I have both hands - 

But one thing I have been trying to find are some of the LJ codings that are in regular use.  One of the main ones being the one where you put in a link to a page and get a word link such as "here" ... at present I only end up with the actual address in blue.  

So - what am I missing??

Comments

[petzipellepingo.livejournal.com]

Is this what you want ?

[kalinda001.livejournal.com]

Like that and also don't forget to be in the HTML tab when you do that.

[debris4spike]

Yes - I tend to try to try to use HTML ... but still get lost!

[debris4spike]

No - I think that is just about the user-name bit ... what it doesn't appear to say is how you got your page to link to that with the nice title of "Is this what you want?" ... or am I just being thick!!

[debris4spike]

Hi - only me again - I am sure you left another link - but I somehow lost it - then Dad lost his internet connection. Thanks for the help - I will re-read those links you gave me

[beanbeans.livejournal.com]

This is how you make a link, except with no spaces:

< a href= "put the url of the website here" >Put the words you want to describe the link here < /a >

So take out all spaces in that, and you have it. :)

[debris4spike]

Thanks - I will give that a try!

[beanbeans.livejournal.com]

You're welcome. :)

[spikereader.livejournal.com]

I see beans has helped with the link coding, but mentalme85 has a useful post here with lots of different tags explained.

Also, if you want your link to open in a new window instead of in the same one, change the code slightly to include target="_blank" (close up the spaces before/after the < > to get the link to work)

< a href="http://www.google.com" target="_blank" >GOOGLE< /a > for GOOGLE

[debris4spike]

Thanks Carolyn - I will get all these codes sorted out ... if I live long enough!!. The great thing that having asked via a post I now have these links here that I can copy from.

Thanks for the extra info

[curiouswombat.livejournal.com]

My daughter pointed me at This site a year or two ago, which shows how to do all the exciting things like links and

scrolling things

and so on!

[debris4spike]

Oh - scrolling ... that was another on my list to look at ... Thanks

[aa-eve-aa.livejournal.com]

I see you have worked it out by now :) but I'm still going to send you something by email i made for a friend :)

[debris4spike]

Thank you - any help is most apreciated!