Questions tagged [hyperlinks]
HTML links, generally those created within the network on questions, answers, or the site itself.
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Is the revenue made by the Amazon Affiliate link rewriting enough to offset the costs of maintaining it?
As most of us active here know, all Amazon links that are posted here (at least for U.S. amazon.com, not for Amazon in other countries, e.g. amazon.co.uk, amazon.in, etc.) are rewritten to go through ...
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Stack Exchange is messing up my links to Amazon [duplicate]
Stack Exchange is messing up my links to Amazon.
Example:
https://www.amazon.com/gp/bestsellers/hpc/3774321, which works (can't post as link as SE will transform it), is transformed into https://...
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Editor improvements for images and links
We are launching some editor improvements today. These improvements are required as a part of our responsive design efforts, but we think they are generally useful in any case. So we are making them ...
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Links in spoilers appear faster than the rest of the spoiler contents
I don't think it is that much important. In a spoiler, the link fades in more quickly than text. This is an example:
I am using the official build of Chrome Version 69.0.3497.100 64-bit.
Click here ...
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Anchor links for sharing specific answers [duplicate]
I want to be able to share answers using anchor links, such that when the link is visited, the page scrolls to the particular answer instead of showing the top of the page.
A good example is seen ...
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URL with multiple ending parentheses produces broken links in markdown preview
I tried to create a link to https://docs.racket-lang.org/reference/Filesystem.html?q=rktl#(idx._(gentag._305._(lib._scribblings%2Freference%2Freference..scrbl))) using Markdown in this way:
[example]...
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Tag links are broken on stackexchange.com [duplicate]
Search results on stackexchange.com may contain questions which have tags.
These tags are clickable, but refer to 404 page.
Seems related to old one: Links on tags on stackexchange.com are ...
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Create a page for useful links? [duplicate]
A lot of the time, it's handy to use outside resources to post information relevant to a question or answer, like SQL Fiddle or Pastebin.
On the one hand, link rot is a consideration, but would it ...
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All links are not clickable in the post when commenting in iOS app
When commenting edit box is opened on some post, the all links in such post are not clickable in iOS app. For example:
App Version: 1.6.6.2
Device: Unknown (iPad7,3)
OS Version: Version 12.0 (...
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Auto-rendering of links stops working after the fifth link … or does it? [duplicate]
This question contains ten links to other posts on the Stack Exchange network. On Meta Stack Exchange, bare links like these are replaced by the question titles. However, on that particular post, it ...
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Add setting to change default link colors
Can there be a setting for users to change the color of links that they have not followed, the ones they have followed, and the ones they hover over?
When I am on the active questions tab of a site, ...
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In mobile view comment link selectable when not logged in, in desktop view there is helpful pop-up
I found a user interface inconsistency between mobile and desktop view.
When not a member of a community and visiting (for one specific example) Law.SE, using Firefox Android 63.0b3 with "Request ...
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Add links to anchors in Code of Conduct
It's possible to link to certain sections in the Code of Conduct. For example, the link https://meta.stackexchange.com/conduct#unacceptable-behavior will scroll directly to the "Unacceptable Behavior" ...
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Add easier links to meta sites
I am using the Worldbuilding site as an example. As of now, there is no way to easily get from the main site to meta (or back). To get there, you either have to change the URL in your browser or click ...
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2answers
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Adding a search bar for page numbers [duplicate]
Sorry if this is a duplicate, but could we have a search bar next to the page numbers so that we can easily find the nth page? For example, there are 740 pages in Meta SE unanswered, so it would be ...
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Remove the underline for hyperlinks in the edit profile - preview section
Underline for hyperlinks are displaying in the Edit Profile - About me preview section. But where as the actual block is displaying in the profile page, there the underline are not displayed for the ...
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Visibility of links with uppercase letters in protocol section is inconsistent
Any link is visible in post preview despite of case in protocol section. But only links where protocol in lowercase are visible in result.
Here is the link with uppercase letter in protocol section: ...
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1answer
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Spam links in an already upvoted answer of a locked question [closed]
An answer to a question, which is locked as historically significant, has a link pointing to a completely unrelated site about drugs:
Docu: http://nubyonrails.com/articles/about-this-blog-beanstalk-...
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Remove the underline on links to duplicate targets on duplicate closures
I noticed that today, the team changed the style of hyperlinks in posts to show an underline. This has been clarified to be by design.
However, I think that this is too cluttered in links to ...
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Underline appearing for hyperlinks
All the hyperlinks in the Post and Comments in the site are displaying with an underline. Sample link. Previously the hyperlinks are displaying without an underline.
While edit the post, in the "...
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“Not a tab” symbol should be added to the “privileges” link in profile page
Due to opening a link “Privileges” in the profile page settings as a new page (not a tab of profile page), there should be a special symbol like for “Question Subscriptions” link:
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Wrong link from the ignored tag message on the end of the questions list
If you have any ignored tag you will see the link “Ignored Tags preferences” in the end of questions list, e.g. on week view:
This link currently refers to the general preferences page:
But ...
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0answers
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3DPrinting question URLs aren't parsed in chat [duplicate]
In chat rooms, questions from the 3DPrinting SE site aren't parsed correctly and just sit there as ugly URLs.
To illustrate here is a screenshot
It can be seen that the "Steering problem" ...
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Code of Conduct links to text of dubious quality and relevance
At the bottom of the Code of Conduct:
This text incorporates ideas and language from the Coral Project, Buffer, and Tech Solidarity codes of conduct.
First of all, have some imaginary points for ...
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1answer
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Why did the format of full-form URLs to answers change?
As I pointed out in this answer, the URL scheme for full-form links to answers has changed from:
https://site/questions/question-id/question-title/answer-id#answer-id
to:
https://site/questions/...
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Linking to /?lastactivity breaks when that activity is on second or greater page [duplicate]
When viewing posts by recently active, the last action can generally be linked to directly by clicking the "answered/modified" link. For example, the "answered 5 hours ago" text circled here:
...
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How to find and/or change a set of hyperlinks on a site?
One of the sites which people reference on Buddhism.SE is Piya Tan's "Dharmafarers".
The URLs of reference material on that site have changed, for example:
Old: http://dharmafarer.org/wordpress/wp-...
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“Re-send the confirmation email” link not working
I'm getting the message: "error: email verification was not sent". It happens under every proposal in Area 51. What is the cause of this problem and how can I mitigate it?
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Show preview of link target in a tooltip with popup effect
Description about the problem
Many times, both responding and being answered is not redirected to a links of another answer.
Example :
So far everything is correct. But what happens if there are ...
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Unable to set non-Latin website link for profile
Non-Latin website link is not acceptable for profile. E.g., I'm trying to set site the address to http://россия.рф/:
After saving the changes I see a message that all saved succesfully:
Your ...
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1answer
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Privacy link from the footer of newsletter is broken
Recently I've got an Email newsletter for Stack Overflow in Russian and noticed that "Privacy" link in the letter's body footer is broken:
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Link formatting broken when it renders correctly in preview
I went back to an older answer of mine and I realized that the link formatting was broken (as you can see in this revision):
But the preview (see—but don't save—here) showed that everything looked OK:...
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Stack Exchange newsletter links don’t open in the app
I have the app downloaded on my iPhone and I find it easier and smoother to use. The problem is in the Stack Exchange links from either the newsletter or when clicked on from an iMessage. I don’t have ...
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Different link parsing among preview mode and in the final
The post Localization bot links are broken now contains two links to transifex strings. In the question body links look like this:
I.e. both links have the tail which doesn't recognized as a part ...
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?tags=… query string present in Google search result; URL doesn't link to tagged page
I just made a Google search for "ux stackexchange forms". The first result correctly points to .../tagged/forms, but the second result points to ...?tags=forms, which has no effect:
The link, ...
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Make site links clickable in hide the communities
When in Hide communities section (no matter on which site), the sites are not clickable
Can they be clickable? It shouldn't be much of a trouble and provides a lot of convenience for lazy people (...
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Does the post editor secretly delete other links when posting an image? If so, why?
I sometimes write long posts with dozens of links to both images via imgur and web pages. From time to time a link will "disappear" or get eaten by the UI. I believe this is happening when I upload an ...
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“Improperly formatted code” when adding an additional image in an edit
I made a question on Stack Overflow and then tried to edit it so that what I entered in the entry box was the exact text shown below in the code block.
The system would not let me post it, throwing ...
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Is there a new “Read-More-auto-insert” feature active on the sites?
I started writing a new answer just now on Chem.SE, and all of a sudden I realized some text had appeared that I (am pretty sure I) hadn't typed:
Is this some sort of new automagic thingummy? Is ...
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If there are more than 200 internal links in a post, only the first 200 display question titles [duplicate]
When you post an answer with more then 200 internal links, only the first 200 are automatically converted to show question titles. All internal links after the first 200 just display the URL.
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Links within spoilers are not hidden on the Revisions page
Similar to Visited links within spoilers are not hidden anymore, links in spoilers aren't properly hidden on Revisions pages like this one.
Tested on the latest versions of Safari, Firefox and Chrome ...
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MathJax should not attempt to parse autolinked URLs
So I just happened across a comment on space.SE that contains a link to the URL https://johnlewis.scene7.com/is/image/JohnLewis/235948306?$prod_exlrg$. (It's a picture of a camera, in case you're ...
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2answers
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Old HTTP links to SE sites without ending / weren't converted to HTTPS links
About a year ago, several migration scripts were run to change old HTTP network-internal links across the network to HTTPS links. However, it appears that the script didn't modify links that lack the ...
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Need a special link in the sidebar
At Spanish Language Beta we have an extremely useful "Resources for Learning Spanish" page.
We need to get a link to it into the sidebar, and it would be nice if it would stay put, i.e. stay there ...
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Open links from questions and answers in new tab [duplicate]
I need to open links from posts and answers in a new tab instead of the annoying in-place opening, without use of the <Ctrl> button or anything else just in ordinary way.
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Why do external links use noreferrer?
(This question is not about nofollow, which is something different.)
I've noticed that all external links are marked with the noreferrer attribute. The only discussions I can find of this on meta.SO ...
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Links do not appear in the profile info of Stack Exchange profile [duplicate]
After updating the profile info on Stack Exchange from another SE site, I discovered that the links are not clickable there:
Just for a comparison, here is the same snippet from the About Me section ...
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Profile page on some Sites don't show link to Meta User page
I recently joined to the Project Management Beta site, and I noticed that there is no link to my meta user on the user tab:
However, this does show up on other Beta and non-Beta sites I frequent, ...
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Can new users still edit their own posts if links & images were added?
With my 2000+ Reputation, I often fix links and images around. e.g, I may change:
see my bug at https:// i.stack.imgur .com/ foobar.png
(sorry, can't post images yet, not enough rep)
to:
...
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What was the reason to change ids in the links to reputation leagues?
Reputation leagues are located at the url https://stackexchange.com/leagues/{id} where the number at the end of the url determines the site. You can find reputation league for example at the bottom of ...
