I don't normally do tech support but this problem has caused incovenience to some readers. Therefore...
THE PROBLEM
If someone pastes in a long URL into the combox (e.g. from a newspaper story) it may go beyond the end of the line. (There are no spaces for the line to break at.) The text is all there but you can't see it. If you try to select to the end of the line, you do not get all the URL.
THE WORKAROUND
If people do this, you can solve the problem as follows:
Select from the beginning of the URL to a line below the URL. Paste this text into Windows notepad. There you can see the whole of the URL, you can select it, copy it to the clipboard and then paste it into the link box of the browser.
HOW TO AVOID CREATING THIS PROBLEM FOR OTHERS
When you want to direct people to a web page, do not just paste the URL text into the combox. Do a link instead using the html anchor tag. Here's what you do:
1. Type in the following: <a href=
2. Type or paste the URL in double quote marks
(e.g. "http://www.vatican.va/")
3. close the angle brackets: >
4. Put in the text you want to see as the link text (e.g. Vatican website)
5. Put in the closing tag - </a>;
You end up with the following:
<a href="http://www.vatican.va/">Vatican website</a>
and it looks like the following:
Vatican website
8 comments:
All very well and proper but for those who forget the HTML, you might mention Tiny URL as an option.
Takes any outrageously long URL and converts it to something that looks like: http://tinyurl.com/6
Very sorry, but what is a URL??
An URL:
http:/www.vatican.va/
http:/www.rosary.freeuk.com/
etc.
If you are beginning to use the internet, it is a good idea to get used to google. If you go to google and type in "What is an URL?" you get several articles on the first page that explain things. If you are looking for something in particular like a few words from the bible etc., it often works is you just type the words in quote marks. Google will then search for exactly that string of characters.
(OK, techheads, I know that strictly speaking URL stands for Uniform Resource Locator and that strictly speaking it should be URI, Uniform Resource Identifier. See Wikipedia article on the subject for more information.)
Thank you for the examples and tip. If you'd just said Uniform Resource Locater I'd have been none the wiser!
Thanks for this very useful tip, Father. It enabled me to post a link to the Master Singers' Anglican Chant Highway Code on The New Liturgical Movement blog.
I always thought an URL was a member of the nobility...
*chortle*
Oh sorry! I've just done "that which I ought not to have done" (to quote Cranmer, I think) on your post about the family. So sorry. Won't happen again!!
The biggest problem I had when trying to teach webdesign to absolute beginners was how to locate and open NOTEPAD! I found a quick way. First select START > then select RUN > then in the pop-up box type in the word NOTEPAD then click OK. Works ever time!
This YouTube shows you some basic HTML. JimmyR
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