Clickable links


This page is devoted to explaining how to create clickable links for insertion into texts.

I have two examples so far
  1. a straight forward uncomplicated clickable link. In this case to my blog post entitled Shafting Jersey, and
  2. a link to a blogger comment, once the number of comments has passed 200 and the required comment is no longer on the first page.

Shafting Jersey



You can simply copy and paste the above link into your text.

The elements of this are as follows:



The link itself will just look like this: here

You can modify this text to give you a clickable link to any other site/page/post by substituting the relevant address between the quotes in the above text. You can also change the word you wish to appear from here to anything else. This then allows you to put the clickable link in context in a sentence.

2. Referencing blogger comments > 200

Referencing blog comments in Blogger is fairly straightforward. You simply rightclick on the timestamp of the comment, choose copy link location from the menu, and paste the result between the quotes in the link tag whose elements are explained above.

This works fine until the comments pass the 200 mark and are now relegated to a second page. The link provided by the method above does not accommodate this and you will simply be linked to the blog post itself when you click on the resulting link.

You need to be able to incorporate two separate elements into the link (i) the page number, and (ii) the number of the comment itself. To do this you have to build your own link. It is not complicated. You just need to be careful and know what you are at.

The first thing is to get a link which simply goes to the page the comment is on. You do this by going to the bottom of the first page of comments and then rightclicking on the appropriate link in the bottom right hand corner. As there are only 286 comments in this example, that means rightclicking on the newer-newest link. Choose copy link location from the menu and past the result into a texfile (or somewhere). This simply links to page 2 without specifying the actual comment you are looking for.



Now you need to get the address of the actual comment. Go to the comment, rightclick on the timestamp, choose copy link location, and past the result into your textfile under the first link from above.




Note that the links are made up of two elements. The blogpost address before the ?, and references to the page number and the comment number after the ?. You now need to add the comment number from the second link to the first link which already contains the page number. This is quite simple. Insert & immediately after the 2 at the end of the first link, but inside the quotes. Then copy the text following the ? in the second link (omitting the quotes) and paste it in immediately after the & that you have just inserted into the first link (again inside the quotes).

In our example, the final link should look like this:



NB: THERE SHOULD BE NO SPACES INSIDE THE QUOTES.

The final link will look like this in your final document: here
and it should take you straight to the required comment.