Link challenged

[DionDem]

Obvious newbie, I couldn't get the link to work on a thread I started.

I'll try again here for practice.

[link:http://joe-the-plumber-2012.com/|

[freshwest]

1. It worked just fine! Hahaha! You need to make an OP out of that!

[DionDem]

4. What is an OP?

Original Post? Isn't that what I did? Huh?

[freshwest]

5. Yes, but you could put some of the content and then the link. Some people need a lead in.

[DionDem]

6. I gotcha

I actually made it an OP in Good Reads and Politics 2012

[freshwest]

7. Great, I'll go look for it there. Don't post OP's in more than 2 forums, as it may be called spam.

You can link back to your OP in replies if it is on topic in other threads and not be considered as spamming the board. At least that's what I was told, anyway. Look forward to seeing more of your satire.

[Make7]

2. The [link:] tag is for making links out of text...

... for normal links you (usually) don't need any tag for it to work - just copy the full address into your post. Putting this text in a post...

[div style="margin-left:1em; color:#000066;"]http://www.democraticunderground.com/index.php
... should give you this link automatically...

[div style="margin-left:1em;"]http://www.democraticunderground.com/index.php
[div style="width:100%; height:0.3077em; border-bottom: 1px solid #bfbfbf;"]
If you wanted to link to that same page with the words Democratic Underground, you would use the [link] tag like this...

[div style="margin-left:1em; color:#000066;"][link:http://www.democraticunderground.com/index.php|Democratic Underground]
... which should result in this...

[div style="margin-left:1em;"]Democratic Underground
[div style="width:100%; height:0.3077em; border-bottom: 1px solid #bfbfbf;"]
There are three ways to insert the [link] tag into a post:

1. Hit the link button, enter the web address in the popup, then type/copy the text to be linked, and hit the /link button.
2. Type/copy the text to link into your post, select the text, hit the link button, and enter the web address in the popup.
3. Type/copy the link tag code, web address, pipe character, and text to link into your post using the proper syntax without ever hitting the link button at all.

[DionDem]

3. Thank you, much obliged!

[American Made]

8. that link is really funny!

I'm new by the way. Nice to be here.

[Warren DeMontague]

9. Welcome to DU, American Made!

[American Made]

10. Thank You!

I'm a life long Democrat so I am happy to be here.

Been reading the conversations and even some of the arguments for a couple days. Really happy to find there are alot of people who care about the same issues as me.