Link challenged

[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.