Imbedded Hyperlinks

Just curious how you entered that last string and and it did NOT show up as Bacharach! Generally when I try to show someone the syntax of an embedded link, it just shows the link, like "Bacharach", rather than the syntax string I'm trying to demonstrate.

Funny, when people started embedding links on this website, I asked Kent how they were doing this, and he responded with the same questions. It has to do with writing in html code. See my website.

Ah, very good page. So it has to do with how you display the < and >. Good to know!

I think you've got it.

Funny how this html editor works. If you go back and edit you previous post, you will find that the &lt; and &gt; have all turned back to < and >. So, it you hit the edit button, you'll get the link again, instead of the html code.

Ops, I inadvertantly said "you previous post" instead of "your previous post", but if I go back to correct my misspelling, I'll have to redo all of my "&" codes.

"if I go back to correct my mispelling, I'll have to redo all of my "&" codes."

That's good to know too. Did you know that you misspelled misspelling above? ;-)

I don't ever have to go back and correct my many many misspellings because I use "ieSpell". It's a free Internet Explorer add-on that lets you spell check any web page text field (like this Rick Steves text editor) just by right-clicking on the box and selecting Check Spelling. It's great!

(And thanks to you, I can now have the ieSpell link above open a new browser window. I like that! On the ieSpell website, the download link is on the left side of the page, under the "Overview" section.)

That I can easily fix. Just did.

& codes can be used on HTML pages to generate characters like ü (&uuml;) or € (&euro;). I've read that they are better to use than <alt> codes because all browser don't interpret <alt> codes correctly (you get boxes) but & codes are an HTML standard and should be correctly interpreted by any browser.

Here, the interpreter immediately changes & codes to ASCII characters, which is why when you try to edit a page the & codes are screwed up.

Thanks Lee!

I'm getting all kinds of good use from this!

Lee - Thanks, I have always wondered how you and others did that magic.

One last thing, if you insert the phrase target="_blank" into the opening 'a' tag, along with href=..., the link will open in a new window. That way if someone closes the link, they will still have the Rick Steves window open.

<a href="http://www.bacharach.de target="_blank">Bacharach</a>