FAQ: Posting Tips

[Josef]

Just hit the 'Quote' button on Sharon's post, and you'll see how it's done.

[John]

.... God, why can't we all have a Sharon in our homes......

Steady now......

Sharon did post instructions somewhere. I will try to find them.

[Morroccomole]

Test Link

scotsman

[Josef]

Test Link

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[url=http://www.scotsman.com/news/politics/scottish-independence-westminster-has-not-considered-what-the-implications-are-for-independence-mp-1-2405403]your text here[/url]

which gives you this >

your text here

or

http://www.scotsman.com/news/politics/scottish-independence-westminster-has-not-considered-what-the-implications-are-for-independence-mp-1-2405403

You missed a 'close bracket' after the URL in the first one, and you probably need to put some text after it so that the link doesn't look like this :

http://www.scotsman.com/news/politics/scottish-independence-westminster-has-not-considered-what-the-implications-are-for-independence-mp-1-2405403

[Morroccomole]

Thanks Josef. Pesky brackets!

[InkMan]

Tobester, in the wee toolbar on your screen above where you type your post, click on the youtube= button. That will paste the relevant code in for you. Copy the URL of the youtube vid you want to use, and paste it after the "=" sign in the code, e.g. for this video http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NoxEETZ_bJg" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false; , you would put:
[youtube= http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NoxEETZ_bJg" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;][/youtube] (but without the space after the equals sign (I put that in so that you'd see the code).

I am trying not to appear thick here but is this still the way of embedding a YouTube video? When I right click the YouTube video screen and use the "Copy video URL" option; pasting it within the youtube= function as shown above it still doesn't show the video as it did in the above post.

It can't be that difficult but maybe I am missing something. As always all and any help is appreciated

Shuggy

[Sharon]

Hi Shuggy, you just need to grab the url from your browser address bar now. Then click the youtube= button which will insert the BB tags into the edit box, then paste your copied URL in after the = sign, click preview to see if it works, then submit.

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[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j_oXLlbhCf8 onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;][/youtube]

[InkMan]

Hi Shuggy, you just need to grab the url from your browser address bar now. Then click the youtube= button which will insert the BB tags into the edit box, then paste your copied URL in after the = sign, click preview to see if it works, then submit.

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[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j_oXLlbhCf8 onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;][/youtube]

Thanks Sharon; can't believe I have used computers this long without realising that was the browser bar!

Shuggy