How to put a link into a comment

Jimmy Stewart demonstrates Sign Number One.

In the old days of Blogger, if you wanted to add someone's link to your blog, you couldn't just copy and paste it into a widget. You had to go into your template, find the sidebar, write-out their address, the name of their blog, and surround it with the right HTML code.

After doing this plenty of times, I finally realized I could use that same code to embed links into comment forms!

Well, here's how you can do it...

Embedding a Link into a Comment

First, type the following:



Makes sure you leave a space between the 'a' and the 'href'.

Next, directly after the '=', write in your address, or copy and paste it, and put it in quotations.

Like this:



And when I say address, I mean a blog address, a web address, or the link to any particular blog post, web article, etc.

Next, put a '>' at the end of the address.

As in:



After that '>' type in the NAME of the blog, website, article, etc.

Such as:



Now you need to close it.

Add the following code at the end of your link's name:



So the finished code for your embedded link will look like this:



Just remember, whatever you type in for your link's NAME, that's all anyone else is going to see. So while I've typed out my entire link as described above, once completed, it's simply going to appear as:

Asleep in New York

Thus creating a smaller, efficient, and more user-friendly link. :)

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From the Draft Pile. Written December 22nd, 2008.

Which means the stuff I'm writing now, and draft-saving, probably won't end up on this blog until the year 2020, when zombies of Hugh Downs and Barbara Walters roam the earth, screaming, "This IS Twenty Twenty!"

-- And then we'll all throw cans at 'em, and go back to blogging.

I wonder if we can call it the Roaring Twenties again, and not get sued?

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End-Notes, and Links:

Thanks to Raquelle, from Out of the Past -- She's a time traveler! -- for leaving me a comment about a new Harpo Marx book, written by a poet, no less. She asked me if I had seen the book, but didn't provide a title, just an unclickable link, which I didn't follow until this morning. Of course, all Raquelle really had to do was ask, "Ginger, have you noticed there's a new book with Harpo on the cover of it in his underwear?" -- Yes! Yes I have.

Anyway, her comment made me realize this old draft was still relevant.

Also: I had to delete a couple of examples from it, about how two of my (then) readers had recently left comments (now three years ago) with unclickable links, all texted out, and how I'm too lazy [see above], most of the time, to actually copy and paste, just to follow a link...but the two people I cited, I don't even know anymore!

I called them my friends, in this story, and now they're just strangers.

Blog friendship is so temporary.

Go make clickable links, and think about that for a while. Shed a tear. Tear down a shed. Then come back in 2020, and read all about my current obsession with Charley Chase! ;)

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