Assistance please

[afro-elf]

I asked HOBBIT but he did not reply so I will ask here.

I do I turn on the HTML on my signatures

I went to my eidt profile but did not see anything. ( not that it is not there... just did not see anything)

[jerseydevil]

VBulletin processes the sigs at the same time it does the posts - so if you want to add a url - just put [ur.l=http://www...]text to display on screen[/ur.l] <- minus the periods between the "r" and "l" of course. I had to add those to prevent vBulletin from processing the screen.

All the stuff you can do in your post, such as quotes, colors, bold, etc - you can do in your sig.

Don't know if this is what you were looking for - but hope it helped.

I think entmoot has HTML code capabilites turned off - which makes sense. People can screw up the layout if they don't code the HTML properly - or they can even screw up the layout on purpose if they were able to embed HTML into their posts and sigs.

[afro-elf]

If you check my signature as of Feb 9th there is a link to Decipher

but on my screen at least it is not a link

I ASSUMED it is because the HTML is turned off but I could be wrong.

[jerseydevil]

Originally posted by afro-elf
If you check my signature as of Feb 9th there is a link to Decipher

but on my screen at least it is not a link

I ASSUMED it is because the HTML is turned off but I could be wrong.

I had noticed that you had a link to an RPG thread before and it came up as a link - but it was just as the link. So I thought was what you were trying to do.

To do decipher - I would just say... [ur.l=http://www.decipher.com]decipher.com[/ur.l] in your sig - which will come out as -
decipher.com

I know that www.decipher.com should work as should http://www.deciper.com.

EDIT After doing some experimenting
I see why it's not being converted over. When you post a message - it's going through a function that actually PUTS the [ur.l]...[/ur.l] code between the URL - BEFORE it saves your post to the database. When you create your sig - it is NOT going through this function.

The only way to have an actual link appear in your sig AS A LINK is to include the [ur.l]...[/ur.l] manually. The computer will automatially do it for posts - but not for your sig.

An easy way to see this work is to post a message with a link - WITHOUT using the [ur.l]...[/ur.l] tags. Then edit the message - you will now see that the link is surrounded by the [ur.l]..[ur.l]. If you try the same thing with your sig - the [ur.l]...[/ur.l] tags will NOT be put in.

By the way - the left handside panel that contains your location, avatar, title, etc - doesn't get processed by the function that translates the [ur.l]...[/ur.l] tag. I had tried it a while ago - because I was going to make Plainsboro into a link to point to Plainsboro's home page - but that didn't work.

[afro-elf]

Thanks you

[jerseydevil]

Originally posted by afro-elf
Thanks you

No problem. This will probably help others trying to get links and so forth into their sigs.