Hi. I am having trouble inserting hyperlinks using the anchor feature from help. I am GM of the game and I have the tag. When I use the anchor with the url and post, it looks right but clicking it gets us 404. If I copy paste the url it takes me where I want the players to be able to go. I was trying to make an OOC soundtrack for possible mood music for different threads. The links are all to YouTube videos, the regular shared link url that YouTube gives you to share. Does anyone have any ideas what I could be doing wrong?

When in doubt, try the <a href> tag - just replace the path you're aiming at inside the quotes below instead of the http://rpol.net URL and type your own label instead of To RPoL!:

<a href="http://rpol.net">To RPoL!</a>

More information in the FAQ at /help/content.cgi?t=faqs&page=rubbcode, look under the Links heading (and note the difference in how RPoL pages and external sites are handled).

In reply to Skald (msg # 2):

That is what I used. A direct example is
<a href=“https://youtu.be/1Bg3U7_dabs”>Silent Striders are squeak toys</a>
Silent Striders are squeak toys

It may be that the quotation marks you are using are not standard characters.  They look, I dunno ... italicized or something.

When I clicked on the 'quote' button to see how you typed the RuBB code to create the hyperlink, the quotation marks appeared on my screen as �.

Here are two examples, side-by-side.

<a href=“https://youtu.be/1Bg3U7_dabs”>Silent Striders are squeak toys</a> (your original text)


<a href="https://youtu.be/1Bg3U7_dabs">Silent Striders are squeak toys</a> (I copied/pasted your original text, and then replaced the quotation marks)

And here are the two hyperlinks again (but this time, outside of the <code> tags)

Silent Striders are squeak toys (yours)
Silent Striders are squeak toys (quotation marks adjusted)

Thank you! I typed it on my iPhone and their “ marks always did little ok weird to me