How do you imbed a link
(This discussion was created from comments split from: Infinite loop of couple as both parents and children.)
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Since this forum corrupts free-standing links, I like to use the format I used to keep corruption from occurring. It's an option in the formatting. Just select the words you want to use, such as Help Article. Click the link icon that appears when you select the icon, and paste the link into the box that appears.
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@Wayland K Adams, to make text into a link, select the text. A little toolbar will appear, with among other things a little chain-links button. That's the "insert link" button. Click it, paste or type the URL into the box, and hit Enter on your keyboard.
Note that your method -- typing or pasting the URL on its own line -- breaks any link that includes diacritics, colons, or some other punctuation. This means that links to images on FS don't work that way, because the forum turns the colons into %3A and doesn't resolve them back into colons when someone clicks the link.
(Non-mangled version: https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/3:1:3Q9M-CSLT-SSKL-T. You get this kind of link if you don't give it its own line.) Note also that pasting a link on its own line doesn't always work: I first tried just copying my example from a profile's source, without first going to that page, and that gave an error.
I had to actually open the link (in another tab) in order for the forum software to accept it. (And then proceed to chew it up.)
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Since this has turned into a link posting style sheet, what I like to do is alway put the title or some notation of what the link is, then paste the link in. For the one mentioned here, I would say, "You can check out the Help Center Article, "How do I solve a looping pedigree in Family Tree?" (see: https://www.familysearch.org/en/help/helpcenter/article/how-do-i-solve-a-looping-pedigree-in-family-tree )
Since the link is not starting a new paragraph, it works fine and I'm generally too lazy to highlight the title and use the pop up bubble to attach the link to the title even though how Áine does it looks best.
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I have to credit @Maile L. I noticed and liked how she was formatting links and learned from her example. I think it does look much neater. I've also noticed, recently, on the rare occasion I use the Edge browser to access this forum, it does a very nice job with inserted links.
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I appreciate all the input on inserting a link. But I am a little unclear on what constitutes pasting a link. I have always used the insert media icon at the lower left which inserts the link where ever your cursor is, not necessarily a separate line. I usually put it on a separate line but it is not necessary. Has it been your experience that using the insert media icon is a problem. Are we saying this is a problem. My experience is that using the insert media icon has always worked
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"Pasting a link" is just highlighting it in the browser URL bar, copying it with command-c, clicking in the text box where I want it to be and pasting with command-v, just like in any text document. I never bother with any of those icons at the bottom because copying and pasting in links works just fine and just dragging in images also works great. Just directly adding things cuts out a couple of clicks.
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(Apologies to Gail for so thoroughly hijacking her thread. Wayland, it says you're a mod, any chance you could break off our discussion into a new thread?)
What "insert media" button? Oh, you mean the mystery meat thingies at the bottom? Like Gordon, I have never used any of those buttons. (Other than the emoji one, on very rare occasions.) Well, first time for everything: I went and copied a link from a source on a profile I happened to have open.
Clicking the angle-brackets-in-a-box button caused the same big pink error message as pasting an unvisited URL on its own line caused ("did not respond successfully"). After visiting the URL, the button added a new line and ate the colons, same as simply pasting (with ctrl-V, since I'm on Windows) on its own line. I tested with having my cursor in the middle of a paragraph, and the button added a new line for that, too. And ate the colons.
All in all, I think I will stick with ctrl-V, either within a paragraph, or using the chain-links button from the selection toolbar (if the fact that the text is a link is either obvious from context or not directly relevant).
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Mod note - split into new discussion as requested
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LOL. @Julia Szent-Györgyi Now it's no longer a hijacked thread!
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