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2012-01-10 03:58:08 - URLs in Forum Posts
As a URL is always a single unbroken string (no spaces) long URL can mess with the alignment of the post(s) - as Im sure you have all seen.
One suggestion by Jack is to use a URL shortening service like tinyurl or something, but yet another alternative is to use the BBCode 'url' tag. This is perhaps an even more 'elegant' solution as you can have any text you want point to the url.
This is how it looks:
[url=http://www.sailonline.org]Text goes here[/url]

You end up with something that looks like this:
SOL
And it can even span multiple lines.

There are many other BBCode tags to allow you to format text in your posts, like italics or bold or underlined, even coloured. When you are composing the post you should see below the input box 'You can use BBCode in your posts' - where the word BBCode is a link to the Wikipedia entry, listing the various tags.

For the curious, BBCode stands for 'Bulletin Board Code' and usually maps directly to HTML tags.
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