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Posted: Sat Jun 27, 2009 4:24 am Post subject: Posting links to external sites to open in the message area.

http://southafrica.myfastforum.org/index.php I saw on another forum that, like Youtube videos, you can post a link to an external site and it will open in the message area. ie . If there is an article with CNN it will open the CNN page (in a smaller section) in the actual message box and you can scroll down the page to read it. All I can find is adding videos like that. What am I doing wrong? thanks

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Posted: Sat Jun 27, 2009 4:30 am Post subject: Re: Posting links to external sites to open in the message a

Cat2be wrote:

http://southafrica.myfastforum.org/index.php

I saw on another forum that, like Youtube videos, you can post a link to an external site and it will open in the message area. ie . If there is an article with CNN it will open the CNN page (in a smaller section) in the actual message box and you can scroll down the page to read it.

All I can find is adding videos like that. What am I doing wrong?

thanks

Wrap the link with

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[web] then your link here [/web]

Which will give you

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Posted: Sat Jun 27, 2009 4:33 am Post subject:

Cool thanks.

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Posted: Mon Jun 29, 2009 4:28 am Post subject:

How would I add a botton for this function? Sorry but I just seem to find codes etc for videos. Thanks

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Posted: Mon Jun 29, 2009 4:28 am Post subject:

Have you tried just using the code, without adding it? _________________ Harsh Reality - Unleash your creativity! Harsh Reality

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Posted: Mon Jun 29, 2009 4:48 am Post subject:

But then they have to type it in each time, don't they? With a button they can just press it , add the link and press it again , like the quote button? Or I am being blond? Thanks Don't I have to put "web" where it says "code"?

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Posted: Mon Jun 29, 2009 5:16 am Post subject:

It isn't a button for a reason. This can be abused and can be a security risk. If you want the button like on here, then search the howtodoit for bbcode buttons. _________________ Harsh Reality - Unleash your creativity! Harsh Reality

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Posted: Thu Jul 02, 2009 5:45 am Post subject:

Tried this with Firefox 3.5 and it failed when I checked a sample post by using the preview mode. All that happened is that I was immediately directed to the url I was using. Maybe this is a bug in PHBB2 or Firefox 3.5, but I was glad that I previewed my post before submitting it. AMR _________________ Ask Mr. Religion Reformed Theology Institute

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Posted: Thu Jul 02, 2009 6:37 am Post subject:

check what site it is. Some sites are designed to not work in frames and iframes, which is all the web tag is - an iframe. They detect if the main page is theirs or not, and if it is not, then it loads their page as the full page. _________________ Harsh Reality - Unleash your creativity! Harsh Reality