[Mike Tyson]

Make a link for something appear as something else i.e. if I wanted to post a link to something cool, you would just click on the words something cool and it would take you to the link?

I have just posted a link in Da News and wondered how you do the above?

[Falling Down]

Use this without the *

[*url=http://http:www.whateversomethingcoolis.com]something cool[/url*]

[dave]

if you use firefox you can install an add-on that on right click gives you edit options of BB code for stuff like this, its very handy.

[slackline]

if you use firefox you can install an add-on that on right click gives you edit options of BB code for stuff like this, its very handy.

Would that be this add-on.

Golt, for more on BBcode see the relevant subsection of the  Simple Machines Forum Regular user guide.

(Also the image posting I wrote up on the wiki sheds some light on this too, as might the HowTo Use Quotes that Bubba wrote).

[magpie]

You can also type the something cool, highlight it with your mouse and then click on the insert hyperlink button.

Actually, ignore me, that's more complicated cause you have to add the = and the web address in yourself after clicking the button, I thought it worked like it does on Blogger where it just pops up a box for you to paste the address in.

[Mike Tyson]

Cheers all!