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I want to put a hyperlink in my forum message

so that when someone clicks on the link they go to that link directly in their browser.

In the bravenet window where you would normally type your message you need to put some 'commands' around the text you want to be the link. Command are enclosed in angled brackets - . So for example let's say you want to link to Yachts and Yachting's Home page with some text saying for example, "there is a great article here", then you would type this:

    There is a great article

When you look on the forum message when it is posted it will then actually look like this:

    There is a great article here

If you want to be really clever a small modification can make the link open in a new browser tab or window (depending on which browser you use). The end result looks the same on the forum but the command needs a little bit of modification to:

    There is a great article here.

All you have done is added the bit target"=_blank" in the right part of the command.

To make your life easy it is often easier to cut and paste the address you want to link to rather than potentially mis-type it. You can cut an address using the Ctrl+c keys together and paste it using the Ctrl+v keys together.