Why is my links icon ghosted?

_wombat_ · Master (of Mischief)

Why is my links icon ghosted?

_wombat_ · Master (of Mischief)

http://www.classicshell.net/downloads/

something gone wrong with the site, I used to be able to just insert the page link and now I have to use HTML tags to display a link.

-- Edited by _wombat_ on Friday 17th of January 2014 08:15:54 PM

Sheba · Guru

Greyed out means it will not work. Sorry, I don't know why, or how to correct it. Why not just Copy and Paste the Link ?

Cheers,

Sheba.

Sheba · Guru

That last one works Wombat.

Cheers,

Sheba.

KFT · Guru

I didn't think you needed to use that thing wombat

I just type a link in and hit enter with the cursor right at the end of it. seems to work ok

yours has in the post above

is that what you did?

frank

_wombat_ · Master (of Mischief)

Thats what I did, hmmm today when I entererd the GN site I got a 500 error of some sort then it came good. bloody computers, I'm goona sell all of mine biggrin biggrin biggrin biggrin biggrin biggrin

_wombat_ · Master (of Mischief)

KFT wrote:
I didn't think you needed to use that thing wombat

I just type a link in and hit enter with the cursor right at the end of it. seems to work ok

yours has in the post above

is that what you did?

frank

frank, no I had to put html tags on the front and rear.

PeterD · Guru

The grey Link button remains ghosted until you highlight the text you wish to use to announce the link. You can not use the keyboard to highlight the text, you must use the mouse.

When you have highlighted the text you can click on the Link button. This then brings up a dialogue box where you can insert the URL for your link (I prefer to copy and post it into the box.) After you have inserted the URL I suggest you also set the Target to "Open link in new window." Now click on Insert. If you set the link up that way when someone clicks on it the link will open in a new Tab. That means you can click between the two tabs if you need to wish to go back and forward between the new page and the thread.

_wombat_ · Master (of Mischief)

PeterD wrote:
The grey Link button remains ghosted until you highlight the text you wish to use to announce the link. You can not use the keyboard to highlight the text, you must use the mouse.
When you have highlighted the text you can click on the Link button. This then brings up a dialogue box where you can insert the URL for your link (I prefer to copy and post it into the box.) After you have inserted the URL I suggest you also set the Target to "Open link in new window." Now click on Insert. If you set the link up that way when someone clicks on it the link will open in a new Tab. That means you can click between the two tabs if you need to wish to go back and forward between the new page and the thread.

thanks PeterD, normally I just used to post copy/paste the link and it came up underlined in the post, now it is doing the same thing but the underline does not show until I put my cursor on the link so all is fixed now looks like it may have been a program change from the web site Cindy uses.