Hiding url in 'quote author'

[libert19]

So, some users when they quote stuff from some website they put the url in 'quote author'.

Like this,

Steve Smith (c), Sean Abbott, Alex Carey,  Ben Dwarshuis, Nathan Ellis, Jake Fraser-McGurk, Aaron Hardie, Travis Head, Josh Inglis, Spencer Johnson, Marnus Labuschagne, Glenn Maxwell, Tanveer Sangha, Matthew Short, Adam Zampa. Travelling reserve: Cooper Connolly.

Now, IMO it looks unclean, could it work something like URL tag, where you can hide the URL link and give it a name so it doesn't look ugly?

For example, this is how it should be where website link is hidden under 'Cricket Australia'


Note: Redirection icon by Hidemaru from freepik.


What do you think?

[Oshosondy]

It may not look clean to you but that does not mean it does not look clean. It looks clean to me. But if you want to hide the URL and name the URL yourself, it is possible.

I have forgotten how it is done but I have seen LoyceV posted about it before. His comment here will be appreciated if it can be done.

[ABCbits]

What do you think?

Code:

[quote author=[url=https://bitcointalk.org]Bitcoin Talk[/url]]
Lorem Ipsum
[/quote]

I just tried above BBcode, but it shows broken BBcode instead. So it's just limitation of current SFM (Simple Forum Machine). But i believe theymos should consider it as one of possible forum enchantment.

[psycodad]

Not sure if that's what you're looking for:

The SMF forum contains the following example:

Code:

[quote="[url=https://www.simplemachines.org/community/index.php?topic=237840.0]Quotes with url-address[/url]"]The SMF forum contains the following example:[/quote]

HTH

[libert19]

Not sure if that's what you're looking for:

The SMF forum contains the following example:

Code:

[quote="[url=https://www.simplemachines.org/community/index.php?topic=237840.0]Quotes with url-address[/url]"]The SMF forum contains the following example:[/quote]

HTH

Precisely what I was looking for, thank you! My query is solved and locking the thread.