Tech: Highlighting a very long link

Subject: RE: Tech: Highlighting a very long link
From: topical tom
Date: 10 Jun 08 - 01:24 PM

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Subject: RE: Tech: Highlighting a very long link
From: topical tom
Date: 27 May 08 - 12:26 PM

Thanks a lot everyone.I'll certainly trace this thread for future reference.

Subject: RE: Tech: Highlighting a very long link
From: Joe Offer
Date: 27 May 08 - 03:13 AM

For posting at Mudcat, I'd say that having more than about 20 characters of an URL visible, can be a problem. If at all possible, make a clickable link if the URL is any longer than 20 characters. But if you can't make a clickable link, paste the entire URL in place, and there's a good chance one of our trusty volunteers will turn it into a link.

If I want to post a link to a search in the Roud Index, I'll end up with an URL that's very long, so I sometimes abbreviate it by just giving the main address of the Website, like this:

http://library.efdss.org/cgi-bin/query.cgi?cross=off&index_roud=on

The Library of Congress American Memory Collection can be just as bad, so I put this:

http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/index.html

-Joe-

Subject: RE: Tech: Highlighting a very long link
From: JohnInKansas
Date: 27 May 08 - 02:52 AM

The more specific answer to the question asked - just move the closing </a> to the end of what you want highlighted. Wherever you put that marker (</a>) is where the highlighting ends.

Since the clickie is for use by the reader, and you don't know whether it will wrap in the reader's browser - even if it does in your own, it's not something to worry a lot about, unless you have some particular reason for doing so.

John

Subject: RE: Tech: Highlighting a very long link
From: JohnInKansas
Date: 27 May 08 - 02:48 AM

The "clickie" text doesn't have to be the same as the "url."

For a link to this thread, using the full form;

<a href="http://www.mudcat.org/thread.cfm?threadid=111530&messages=4">Highlighting</a> a very long link

would give only the word "Highlighting" as the clickie, and the rest in plain text.

e.g. (for example only)

Highlighting a very long link.

It really shouldn't matter if the "clickie" wraps a line though, since clicking "anywhere in the blue" will follow the link.

John

Subject: RE: Tech: Highlighting a very long link
From: The Borchester Echo
Date: 27 May 08 - 02:20 AM

Shorten long links with Tiny Url

Subject: RE: Tech: Highlighting a very long link
From: Stilly River Sage
Date: 27 May 08 - 12:33 AM

I've never used Mudcat's blue clickie system, I hand type then in, but keep in mind, like Rowan says, that the highlighted text can be a lot shorter than the link itself.

SRS

Subject: RE: Tech: Highlighting a very long link
From: Rowan
Date: 27 May 08 - 12:27 AM

Tom, it might be easier to highlight only a short piece of text as the item that readers click on.

Using Mudcat's blickifier page, put the URL in the upper of the two windows as usual and then the short text in the lower of the two windows; the short text need be only one word (eg "here") if you like. Create the link as instructed then copy&paste the entire product into your post. Use the "Preview" button (next to the "Submit Message" button) to view what it will look like when posted; then post it.

Cheers, Rowan

Subject: Tech: Highlighting a very long link
From: topical tom
Date: 26 May 08 - 11:57 PM

When I am making a blue clicky,after pasting the link into my post,the link is so long that it is beyond the width of the page. How can I highlight it to the very end?