Is there a permalink I can use for answers/comments?
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2possible duplicate of meta.stackexchange.com/questions/156/… – Ladybug Killer Apr 6 '10 at 9:12
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@dave no it's not a bug. Period. – Shadow Wizard is Vaccinating Dec 30 '15 at 17:29
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@Mon why not a rollback? – Shadow Wizard is Vaccinating Dec 30 '15 at 17:29
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@sha because I didn't look into the history; I just saw what seemed to be mistagging and fixed it. – Monica Cellio Dec 30 '15 at 17:32
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@ShadowWizard most people believe there are things called usability bugs. Call them what you will; this is one of those. Exclamation mark. 😉 – Dave Abrahams Jan 2 '16 at 15:55
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@Dave feel free to start a new bug report then, and have the team decide, but no matter what changing such a support question to bug report is not proper. Thanks for understanding! – Shadow Wizard is Vaccinating Jan 2 '16 at 15:58
Yes, there's a "share" permalink for each answer to a question (and for each question as well).
It's right next to the "flag" and "edit" links at the bottom of the answer:
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1I just noticed that too, that the "share" to social networking sites AND the "link" text are all rolled up into the "share" text. It used to look like this meta.stackexchange.com/a/101026/160875 Not sure how I missed that either! – Ellie Kesselman Oct 6 '12 at 10:45
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16"link" would be clearer. I wonder how many views this page has had since the change. – A.M. Jul 3 '13 at 0:36
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5agreed. I came here because I thought "share" would take me to some social networking site. "link" would be much more accurate. – ggutoski Jul 16 '14 at 16:23
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9The problem is with longer answers. Looking for a link we would expect to find it high, at the top of the answer. But the "share" control is at the bottom of the answer. For a one-liner like in the example, it is intuitive. But for a 100-liner, it is not. – Douglas Held Feb 18 '15 at 22:44
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4The URL created by the share button also includes your UserId. You can safely remove this if you don't want your Id to be shared. – Phillip Ngan Feb 16 '17 at 19:48
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"share edit flag"; top or bottom; link or share: The implemented solution seems "good enough"; it hasn't been changed; the community seems to be getting used to it, even if it is an oddity. On the other hand, this remains difficult to find, until learning about the oddity. FWIW. – BaldEagle Jun 18 '18 at 15:09
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how should we refer to a person who answered a question? It seems it is not still possible in stackoverflow? @username does not work! – Färid Alijani Mar 27 '20 at 12:39
Permalink for questions/answers can be copied from the box shown after clicking the "share" link as shown below
Permalink for the comments can be obtained by copying the address of the link that shows the Time/Date of posting the comment as shown below
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2You can copy the address (i.e., ‘‘Copy shortcut’’ or ‘‘Copy Link Location’’) of the “share” link, too. (That’s slightly less manual motion than click-copy-close.) – Scott Jul 19 '17 at 19:10
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It'd be no surprise if something has changed since 2014. In Jun 2018, this link takes me to a "revisions" page. While interesting and valuable, that page isn't the intended target of this discussion. FWIW. – BaldEagle Jun 18 '18 at 15:14
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3This is perfect, you should mention the benefit of this method: it will provide a readable url containing the question-text, while the other method provides only a very much shortend version. If anyone didn't get how to extract this url, the 45600 at the end is extracted from the "share"-url -> meta.stackexchange.com/a/45600/328307 – Murmel May 15 '16 at 15:10
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2thanks, exactly what i was looking for, with the readable url. i don't think the answer number within the path does anything, just the hash – Gordon Jan 30 '17 at 20:13
I will just add a few comments on various formats of the link to an answer:
- As explained in other answer, you can get a link by clicking on share. Notice that if you do this while logged in the link contains your user id at the end - in my case I get:
https://meta.stackexchange.com/a/45598/183484
. The link works as well without user id and if you do not want it there you can simply remove it and you still get a working link:https://meta.stackexchange.com/a/45598
https://meta.stackexchange.com/a/45598 (This is useful if you do not want the link to reveal your identity. If you do not care much about badges, there is not actually much difference between using the two links.) - By clicking on some link to answer you get link in address bar which has the following format:
https://meta.stackexchange.com/questions/45597/how-can-i-link-to-a-specific-answer/45598#45598
How can I link to a specific answer? The advantage of this is that it contains also question id and it is at least partially human readable. (In fact, you can replace the parthow-can-i-link-to-a-specific-answer
by pretty much anything, as long as you keep it a valid url.) - Quite often when I include a link in a post on Stack Exchange or in chat, I use
[text](url)
format. For example:[How can I link to a specific answer?](https://meta.stackexchange.com/q/45597#45598)
How can I link to a specific answer? or[jp2code's answer](https://meta.stackexchange.com/questions/45597/how-can-i-link-to-a-specific-answer/45598#45598)
jp2code's answer, etc.1 I will add that I obtained the first link using the bookmarklet "Formatted link to a webpage" from this page (Internet Archive). Personally, I find it quite useful - by one click it creates a formatted link, where the title of the post is included. (Or if some part of the page is selected, it is included is text.)
In case of link rot, I will copy here also the source of the above bookmarklet:
t=window.getSelection().toString();
if (!t && document.querySelector('h1')) {
t=document.querySelector('h1').textContent.replace(/ \[closed\]| \[on hold\]| \[duplicate\]/g,'').trim();
}
else if (!t) {
t=document.title.split('-')[0].trim();
}
u=window.location.href;
if (typeof StackExchange!=='undefined' && u.indexOf('area51')==-1 && /^[qa]/.test(u.split('/')[3])) {
u=window.location.protocol+'//'+window.location.hostname+'/q/'+window.location.pathname.split('/')[2]+window.location.hash;
}
window.prompt('Copy to Clipboard','['+t+']('+u+')');
1Stack Exchange quite often expands bare link to the question title. But this is not always reliable. And in this way you have a better control over the text.
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About "Notice that if you do this while logged in the link contains your user id at the end": It'd be no surprise if something has changed since Jan (it'd be good!). In Jun, I don't see my user id. On the other hand, the link goes to a Revisions page, which isn't the intended destination of this discussion. – BaldEagle Jun 18 '18 at 15:19
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@BaldEagle That is strange. When I click on share, I do see my userid at the end of the url. For example, for this answer I get:
https://meta.stackexchange.com/a/305392/183484
. – Martin Jun 18 '18 at 15:39
Use the share button if you want to link to a specific answer.
If you'd like to link to a comment, copy the URL of the timestamp.
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Existing answers already cover both post share links and comment timestamp links. – Monica Cellio May 4 '18 at 1:13
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The is the fastest way
Right click your answers share button Either copy that url or open in new tab
How can I link to a specific answer?
To get the shortest url
These links are the same
https://meta.stackexchange.com/questions/45597/how-can-i-link-to-a-specific-answer/#338482
Click here to see a jump to this answer
Inspect the share button, the number after that #
is what you add to the current url
<a href="/a/338482/200790"..............
In this case #338482
is what I appended to the current url as an anchor tag
Use that same id like this to get the shortest url:
https://meta.stackexchange.com/a/338482