Changing the color of a hyperlink in a photo description

[NaomiW]

Hi all,

I just searched the forum and learned how to create a shortened link within a photo description (you know, when you upload your photos) by using the html code to do it - but how do you change the color of the link text? I can do it here, because there are all the formatting icons above the box where I'm typing. But when I'm uploading a photo and I want to add a link to the description, there are no formatting icons to click on there. How/where do I add html code that will change the color of my link text? Thanks!

[Angelnorth]

You just need to specify the color along with any other tags. So in the gallery you'd have something that looks like this (ignore the * character - those are just there so the forum will display what I type inside the square brackets rather than interpreting them and formating the text accordingly)

[*url="http//:www.myblog.com/blogpost.htm"][*color=blue]click here for my blog post[/color][/url]

You always need to close a tag so as just as you'd type "[/url]" to finish the web address, you also type "[/color]" to finish the change of color. Those should be "nested", IYSWIM.

You can also use [*b] (with [*/b] to close) to make text bold. So for the example above to be bold as well as blue, that would be:

[*url="http//:www.myblog.com/blogpost.htm"][*color=blue][*b]click here for my blog post[/b][/color][/url]

HTH!

[NaomiW]

You are AWESOME. That is just what I needed, thank you so much!