Will someone please teach me how to embed a link in a word?

[bear425]

I knew how to do it once, but I can't seem to get it to work right now. You know how people have a word in their signature line, but the link doesn't show?

I want to do this to my signature line. Thanks in advance from html challenged me!

[nothingshocksmeanymore]

1. When you hit "post"

You will see a line that says "message options" and HTML LOOKUP TABLE. Click that link...it is the very first instruction

[Catch22Dem]

2. Use square brackets

See here: http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=html_table

[BuyingThyme]

3. Like this:

<a href="URL">text</a>

Note: On DU, use brackets, not < and >.

[bpilgrim]

4. [link:www.yoursite.com|your txt]

thats it =)

peace

[bear425]

6. Thank you! But, how do you make the | symbol?

(I coped and pasted it from your subject line) I don't know how to do it on my keyboard. Sorry I'm such a dork.

[Greyhound]

8. it's the pipeline, upper case backslash ( \ ) n/t

[bear425]

9. |||||||||||woo hoo||||||||||| thanks!

I think I got it all now. Again, Du'ers thanks!

[nuxvomica]

5. Here's my sig in plain text for an example

There’s really nothing [i]new[/i] about the neocons. Read
[link:lexrex.com/enlightened/articles/warisaracket.htm|War Is
a Racket] by Maj. Gen. Smedley Butler, USMC, who foiled a
[link:dailykos.com/story/2005/2/27/112936/440|fascist plot to
overthrow FDR].

[bear425]

7. Ok, I got it! Thanks all! I really appreciate your help! n/t