How do I prevent a live link or Hyperlink---
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---connecting directly to a site.
For example,
I can write screwfix.com
or like this, www.screwfix.com
or like this
clicking on the above would take someone directly to the site in question.
Is there a way, except by misspelling, I can type a website address within a thread or post without it becoming a live link?
For example,
I can write screwfix.com
or like this, www.screwfix.com
or like this
clicking on the above would take someone directly to the site in question.
Is there a way, except by misspelling, I can type a website address within a thread or post without it becoming a live link?
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So maybe put spaces either side of the . for example
screwfix . com
or
www . screwfix . com
Most people would see that and realise that the true URL does not include the spaces (or one would hope they would )
I knew precisely what you meant about paypal, unfortunately malcolm is new to all this internet lark and computing in general and didn't, whereupon the poster in question seized the opportunity to bait you.
I wouldn't worry about it too much even though I know it hurts. It's not worth the effort of misspelling just to satisfy an idiot who isn't even half the man you are and with nothing like your breadth of knowledge. So you occasionally spell things wrong or put a hyphen in where you shouldn't. Big deal. It's the content that matters not the spelling.
Meanwhile back at the question I would just leave out the http and www prefixes like you did in the OP, or do nothing and carry on doing what you do, which you do well.
[noparse]www.bbc.co.uk[/noparse]
FM doesn't hurt me but has me curious in some aspects.
I have put their need to do what they do down to deep insecurity issues in themselves.
But what I don't get in their need to put others on their arses, in an attempt at brinkmanship and to arrive at some satisfaction they fall flat on their faces,-- by taking the upper ground, they are so easy to coax down, so easily led.
Blinkered I guess, their own worst enemy and to boot, downed by their own poison.
Funny old world.
Nope that didn't work for me, i'll try that again.
[noparse]www.screwfix.com[/noparse]
Worked fine for me,
www.google.com
Interesting this one.
When I refresh the page the second link momentarily turns to black text then turns to blue and becomes a clickable link. Despite the noparse tags being there when I quote the post.
Yet if I look at the page source there is a <a href=....> tag round the first screwfix.com but nothing round the second so not entirely sure what is going on there.
Unless it is something in Firefox on Mac OS-X that I am using at the moment doing it.
It's not something on your system, it's a plugin that DS have installed in the forum.
It basically hijacks links and redirects them through an affiliate system in order to cream off a few extra pennies.
Modifying someone else's content is a pretty scummy tactic IMO and i wish i could figure out a way of stripping out the modified link and returning it to what the author intended.
screwfix.com
Can't give an exact number but around 50% of the links i click on these forums are affected. I only notice because i block those affiliate sites at the DNS-level so every time i click on one i can't see what the author of the post was pointing to.
As evil and ianx states, if you have to, just alter the url a little.
If I turn off Tracking Protection in IE then the second link in evil c's post becomes clickable. Same with Firefox. If I switch off Adblock Plus, it becomes clickable. The bbc link in tealady's post stays unclickable though. I suppose it's because the bbc site isn't selling anything.
;-)