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It should just show up. Sometimes I right mouse click and “paste as text”.
If the HTML is from a colored link on a page, is it pasting as white text?
I’m going to post a link as a test:
https://www.wired.com/story/borrowed-school-laptop-mind-open-tabs/
Susan Bradley Patch Lady/Prudent patcher
I’ll try again. So I highlighted a hyperlink, right-clicked it, clicked copy, and then pasted it as plain text into forum.
Be sure to paste as plain text and not as HTML. You can make sure of this by clicking the Text tab on the edit bar before pasting into the text entry field. The forum software will automatically make a link of text it recognizes as a URL, as Patch Lady Susan wrote.
Alternately, if you want hyperlinks like this, just follow these steps:
Highlight the text you want to be the link.
Click the link icon on the edit bar (third from right).
Paste the URL into the box that pops up.
Hit Enter or click the blue Enter button in the box.
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Alternately, if you want hyperlinks like this, just follow these steps:
Highlight the text you want to be the link.
Click the link icon on the edit bar (third from right).
Paste the URL into the box that pops up.
Hit Enter or click the blue Enter button in the box.
@Ascaris method works, for sure, but clicking on such an embedded link will take you away from AskWoody to the linked site, as will clicking on a regular hyperlink. I usually tick the box to “Open link in a new tab” when embedding a hyperlink.
That leaves the thread to which you are replying open in its own tab.
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