How can i make a link that shows a different URL than it actually is when someone puts their cursor over it?

If U already have a real domain it's called Forwarding! Or U can mask a name on top of that! It's called URL Redirect! But I cant fond any more good ones out there free or otherwise!

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Hi emogirl
Welcome to the Pool.
I know what you mean It's like how the Hyperlinks are "made up" here on this site for all I know you can make one up here copy and paste it to your email or whatever you are doing and it should work?Perhaps you should wait for Dwight or TomGL2 to make a reply before you attempt it they may have a better suggestion?(they are the experts in this area(also Murray S.)
If you have Aol you can do this all the time when saving links to Favorites or inserting links in email
Here is the AP Version:What is here?
There is a HTMLversion but I'm no good at that
Note:Normal "Copying and pasting" does not work
instead highlight the text to be copied,press the MENU key next to the righthand CTRL key then press "C" to Copy and "P" to Paste bit awkward but with practice it is as fast as the "other method"

I think what EmoGirl is asking is how to put a link on a website that takes you to other than where the link indicates. It's easy to write something like:

 [URL=http://www.linuxcentral.com]www.microsoft.com[/URL] 

which would make what looks like a link to microsoft take you to linux central.

let's see if it works www.microsoft.com

Yup - it does

but the code tags don't seem to be working the html tags keep getting converted to UBB code even though I've got them inside "Code" tags.

[This message was edited by crescen7 on 02-16-03 at 04:57 PM.]

There are three main components: (1) the actual URL; (2) the description of the link; (3) and the optional popup tooltip.

For example, Microsoft's Internet Explorer homepage URL is http://microsoft.com/windows/ie/default.asp, which you may want to appear as Internet Explorer home. To do this, you'd use the HTML markup

<a href="http://microsoft.com/windows/ie/default.asp">Internet Explorer home</a>

which renders as

Internet Explorer home

To add a tooltip (hover the cursor on the link below to see it appear), use

<a title="Latest IE downloads href="http://microsoft.com/windows/ie/default.asp">Internet Explorer home</a>

which renders as

Internet Explorer home

For the sake of completeness, I should add that you can force a link to open in a new window by adding target=_new, as in

<a target=_new href="insert URL">insert description</a>

Neat Tip/Trick Tom;

I'm wondering though if EmoGirl is trying to keep the "Shortcut to xxxxx.xxx" from showing up in the status line ?

Aw man, i'm so confused. i'm no good with computers. thanks for your help though anyway

EmoGirl:
Don't get discouraged, I know that computers can drive us all nuts at times.
Just keep on posting what you don't understand & I' sure all here will be happy to help.

How about we take care of your avatar that's showing up as a box with a red X. Looking at the address you've used you are telling our computers to look on your own C: drive for the picture. Saddly that won't work.

If you'ed like you can E-Mail me with the picture you want to use, as an attatchment, & we'll get you set up.

Regards Mike b. (AKA Byter)

EmoGirl:

Feel free to click on our names to get to our profiles if you'd like to email any of us; Byter is quite handy with html matters. Perhaps you could go into a little more detail, in case we don't quite understand what you're looking for.

sonnet26