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Author Topic: Using Anchors Within Posts  (Read 6659 times)

Ehtyar

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Using Anchors Within Posts
« on: October 08, 2008, 06:43 AM »
This may end up making me look like a complete dumba$$, but Mouse Man asked me to post this here. So anyway, for those who want to be able to link to a specific section of their post (I will be using this from now on in the Weekly Tech News), you can use the [anchor] and [iurl][/iurl] bbc tags which I've only recently discovered, hence this post.
To add an anchor to your post you place the [anchor] tag somewhere in your document with a unique name e.g.
[anchor=my_unique_name]
Then, when you wish to link to this anchor, you use the [iurl][/iurl] (internal URL) tags to link to the anchor like so:
[iurl=#my_unique_name]go to my anchor[/iurl]
You can try this out by clicking here.

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This has been a test of the emergency broadcast..er..anchor system.

nosh

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Re: Using Anchors Within Posts
« Reply #1 on: October 08, 2008, 06:59 AM »
Like























this?

[Edit: Had to edit thrice coz of a stupid typo. *Grabs complete dumba$$ badge from Ethyar*]
« Last Edit: October 08, 2008, 07:07 AM by nosh »

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Re: Using Anchors Within Posts
« Reply #2 on: October 08, 2008, 09:02 AM »
cool! handy tags, bookmarking this. :)

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Re: Using Anchors Within Posts
« Reply #3 on: October 08, 2008, 10:09 AM »
Nice, I had been wondering whether there was bbcode for this :)
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Re: Using Anchors Within Posts
« Reply #4 on: October 08, 2008, 10:24 AM »
That's useful info, thanks!

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Re: Using Anchors Within Posts
« Reply #5 on: October 08, 2008, 02:41 PM »
Well I'm glad i wasn't the only one who didn't know about this. I guess neither of us have the complete dumba$$ badge nosh ;)

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Re: Using Anchors Within Posts
« Reply #6 on: October 14, 2008, 02:05 PM »
just wanted to point out -
if you link to an anchor in a different post, it wont work in preview mode but will (should!) when you've posted
Tom