Hyperlinks in log entries

[Guest unclerojelio]

I know this must have been covered before so I did make an honest attempt to search but I couldn't find the answer.

 

How does one create a hyperlink in a log entry?

 

I've tried UBB Code and straight HTML. The HTML is stripped and the UBB didn't parse.

 

 

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unclerojelio

[Guest JamieZ]

Uncle,

 

As far as I know, you can't. I've seen people post smilies and change text color though... and I dont know how they do that, so maybe I'm not the guy to ask.

 

Jamie

[Guest Markwell]

You can - kind of.

 

Type the whole URL with spaces around it. The system recognizes it as a URL and creates a hyperlink. Unfortunately, we can't do any ?click this link? formatting to make it look nice.

 

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Markwell

My GPS Activity Page

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[Guest unclerojelio]

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Originally posted by Markwell:

You can - kind of.

 

Type the whole URL with spaces around it. The system recognizes it as a URL and creates a hyperlink. Unfortunately, we can't do any ?click this link? formatting to make it look nice.

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Take a look at http://www.geocaching.com/seek/cache_details.asp?ID=14548 The log by Aquaman has "click this link" type formatting.

 

Sorry to seem persistent but the geek in me HAS to know!

[Guest unclerojelio]

Oops, That should be AquaDyne.

[AquaDyne]

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How does one create a hyperlink in a log entry?

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You can only do "click this link" type formatting to other pages on the geocaching website. Basically, what happens is when you use the

<a href="url">

tag in a log entry, the site automatically appends an http://www.geocaching.com to the beginning of it. So you can link to a cache or travel bug, or any other page that has a url beginning in http://www.geocaching.com simply by removing that portion of the URL.

 

Specifically, you can link to a cache like this:

<a href="/seek/cache_details.asp?ID=12360">Thornhollow Creekside Park Cache</a>

 

and it will display as this:

Thornhollow Creekside Park Cache

 

For URLs that are not on the geocaching website, the best you can do is simply type the URL. It automatically links any website beginning with

http://

similar to how it did the geocaching site above.

[+Whidbey Walk]

I haven’t been able to find it yet, but I know that I have seen a cache log with a scrolling marquee. It was somewhere in Washington. I’ll keep looking for it and post the link when I find it.

[+tslack2000]

Jeremy disabled the use of scripts and I'm pretty sure that was done with a Java script. It posed a security risk so it is no longer allowed in the cache description or logs. (Of course I could be wrong? )

 

Tyler Slack's Geocaching in Utah

[+tslack2000]

Jeremy disabled the use of scripts and I'm pretty sure that was done with a Java script. It posed a security risk so it is no longer allowed in the cache description or logs. (Of course I could be wrong? )

 

Tyler Slack's Geocaching in Utah

[+Markwell]

But I'm not sure if it only works with IE or if it works on netscape as well. It is not script. The Tag your looking for is Text It scrolls the text from left to right.

 

I'd use it sparingly though. It can be pretty annoying.

 

Markwell

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[+RangerRick]

Hello Markwell, I clicked on your hyperlink and checked out the section on GPS accuracy. You stat ed that a GPS unit is accurate to within a 30' radius. A 30' radius circle has a area of 2,827. square feet not the 188.5' stated in the hyperlink. A 7.5' radius circle would equal 188.5 square feet. Am I missing something?

[+RangerRick]

In the above post. I meant to say a 7.75 raidius circle =188 square feet.

[+worldtraveler]

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Originally posted by Ranger Rick:

.....Am I missing something?

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Looks like he mistakenly used the formula for the circumference (pi D) instead of area (pi r squared)

 

Worldtraveler

[+worldtraveler]

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Originally posted by Ranger Rick:

.....Am I missing something?

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Looks like he mistakenly used the formula for the circumference (pi D) instead of area (pi r squared)

 

Worldtraveler

[LazyLeopard]

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But I'm not sure if it only works with IE

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It's a Microsoft-specific tag. On other browsers the tag should be ignored but the text within should all display properly without moving about...

 

See, for example, this page.

 

Purrs... LazyLeopard http://www.lazyleopard.org.uk

[+Markwell]

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Originally posted by worldtraveler:

Looks like he mistakenly used the formula for the circumference (pi D) instead of area (pi r squared)

 

Worldtraveler

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Yep, I did. Haven't looked at that portion of the website for quite sometime. I'll check it all out with a big math geek later and see if I can refine it and put up a corrected version soon.

 

Markwell

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[+Markwell]

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Originally posted by worldtraveler:

Looks like he mistakenly used the formula for the circumference (pi D) instead of area (pi r squared)

 

Worldtraveler

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Yep, I did. Haven't looked at that portion of the website for quite sometime. I'll check it all out with a big math geek later and see if I can refine it and put up a corrected version soon.

 

Markwell

Non omnes vagi perditi sunt

[+unclerojelio]

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Original post by Aquadyne:

Specifically, you can link to a cache like this:

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<a href="/seek/cache_details.asp?ID=12360">Thornhollow Creekside Park Cache</a>

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Small correction: Leave out the quotes.

[+unclerojelio]

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Original post by Aquadyne:

Specifically, you can link to a cache like this:

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<a href="/seek/cache_details.asp?ID=12360">Thornhollow Creekside Park Cache</a>

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Small correction: Leave out the quotes.