Questions tagged [hyperlinks]
HTML links, generally those created within the network on questions, answers, or the site itself.
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Square brackets in hyperlinks is broken in comments
On all Stack Exchange websites, using square brackets in a hyperlink like in the following Markdown code is correctly translated into HTML in questions and answers, but not in comments:
[[class....
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Should linked questions be more visible?
Every now and then I remember that there are actually links to other questions on the right hand side. For people who don't know: Whenever you post a URL to another question, the question that links ...
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Underline Overflow™ in links under answers
It looks like the CSS for links in the UI has recently changed, and most of the links are now always underlined:
This is a little heavy IMHO, and is not consistent with other links on the page (e.g. ...
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Clicking on full site loads mobile chat again
I was switching from mobile chat to full site to upload an image on chat room on my mobile. Clicking on full site still gives mobile chat after a page refresh.
I tried several times but the result ...
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Can we post links to Monica's GoFundMe page again now that donations to it are closed and she's reached an agreement with SE?
In mid-November, SE began removing links to Monica Cellio's GoFundMe campaign, under the direction of their legal team.
However, today, the campaign has been closed and is no longer accepting ...
asked Dec 24 '19 at 0:25
Sonic the Anonymous Hedgehog
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How can I refer and link to other posts in my post?
Several times, when asking a question or posting an answer, I have to rely on another question/answer (or even a comment!) somewhere in the site.
I generally do this:
... as mentioned in [this answer]...
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Hyperlink without underline in deleted answer's post notice
Recently I deleted one of my post (10k+ users only). After it deleted, there is a inconsistency with the hyperlink in the post notices.
The deleted question link contains a hyperlink, whereas the ...
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Anonymize or hash the user ID part of a shared link so that users can earn badges for sharing links without having to leak their account on the site
The "share" link underneath a post includes the sharing user's ID for the purposes of awarding the user with Announcer, Booster, and Publicist badges in case enough users from different IP addresses ...
asked Dec 13 '19 at 16:18
Sonic the Anonymous Hedgehog
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What exactly does “links to a legal fund campaign” mean?
I understand that links to a certain legal fund campaign will be removed.
My user name had again been changed without notice. For a few days my user name had been a broken-up URL to a short (22-line) ...
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screenshots from snipping tool should be saved in what format so that google drive links can be fetched as image in stackexchange sites
I keep facing a lot of problems on my systems. So I keep posting on stack exchange sites. I take a lot of screenshots from snipping tool
for example this one
https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/...
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Most of the links in stackexchange sites go nowhere when using Chrome [closed]
Where:
An issue in all Stack Exchange sites (including those that have a separate domain eg stackoverflow.com / superuser.com / askubuntu.com), but only when using Google Chrome. My other browser, ...
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Include original link on error page [duplicate]
Recently I've tried to open my profile, but there was a problem with a server. So I've been redirected to: https://ru.stackoverflow.com/error?aspxerrorpath=/users/15479/suvitruf-says-reinstate-monica.
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asked Nov 17 '19 at 7:17
Suvitruf says Reinstate Monica
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Clicking on code could hyperlink to the documentation for that code
It would be nice if when clicking on code it could hyperlink to the documentation for that code.
I.e. when I'm viewing this question: Programmatically generate video or animated GIF in Python?, ...
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How do I view the pre-existing community for a current Area 51 proposal?
A proposal on Area 51 was recently closed by a staff member with a comment that contained
Please do not disregard the community requirement when submitting a proposal. When you submit this proposal ...
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What was the reason behind changing copy-link edit box behavior?
tl;dr: What was the reason for disabling Ctrl+X shortcut on text field used for sharing URLs to each question and answer. This change and the force to use Ctrl+C instead seems to me very odd and ...
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Given that Stack Exchange no longer adds its referral code to rewritten Amazon links, can we get rid of the link rewriter?
Since 2009, Stack Exchange has been rewriting links to products being sold on Amazon.com (only the U.S. site, not other international Amazon sites) to add in its own affiliate referral code to the ...
asked Oct 8 '19 at 22:32
Sonic the Anonymous Hedgehog
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Do comments that promote a user's post fall under spam?
Our current definition of spam focuses mainly on someone trying to sell you an off-site product.
What makes something spam and when should I flag it?
A post should be marked as spam only if it ...
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Relative URL links break when a question is migrated
Recently, I posted a comment on a question, which contained a relative link to another question on this site (i.e. a link of the form [link](/questions/3122/formatting-sandbox)). The question was ...
asked Sep 27 '19 at 4:57
Sonic the Anonymous Hedgehog
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Beautify Wikipedia links
There is some support on SE for rewriting links to a question with the question title; for instance, if I add a bare link of the form https://meta.stackexchange.com/questions/49433/replace-trilogy-raw-...
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Android app crashes when clicking a link in Preview mode
While using android mobile application found a bug in it, also had an email redirecting me here to post question and drive solution finding process
Here goes some information about this issue:
Env : ...
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Can the title of the question not be a link when viewing a single question (and its answers)?
The title pretty much says it. Question's title while viewing a single question and its answers currently is a link that leads to the same page and usually browsers make it really hard to select (and ...
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Add “Hot Questions” link in stackexchange.com navigation tabs
I reached All Sites list on stackexchange.com and wanted to move to the Hot Questions page. I looked around for Hot Questions link and didn't find any.
The one and only way to see the Hot Network ...
asked Jul 31 '19 at 7:05
Shadow Wizard is Ear For You
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Can we get a current user link for flairs?
My profile has a link to the flair page on it, so others can use them. However, it is a link to the flair page for me, because the /current trick (which replaces "current" with the logged-in user's ID)...
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Add link styling to the latest activity link in the question stats
With the new design of putting the question stats under the post title, it's not obvious at all the latest activity time is a clickable link. The current style blends in with the non-link labels on ...
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Automatically have links archived in the Wayback Machine
In a recent (now deleted) question, I proposed having a little reminder of some sort to archive links that are put in questions and answers, as they can die and much of the time there is no archive of ...
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Is there an easy way to post nice hyperlinks to questions?
Often I want to link to an existing question on the SE network in a comment or even a question/answer. One way to do this is by using the Share button. The link will be given in the form https://...
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Can we get short versions of URLs in question title links?
The title on all question pages has a link to the question. These are normal links (of the form /questions/{questionID}/{title}), with the question's full title in the link.
They would be a lot more ...
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Don't replace + with %20 in URLs inserted via Insert Hyperlink
If you use "Insert hyperlink" (Ctrl+L or the link toolbar button), it modifies the URL you provide by replacing + with %20 if there's a query part, including in the fragment identifier. This breaks ...
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Search on all sites: tag links lead to the 404 link not found page [duplicate]
Searching on all sites, e.g., https://stackexchange.com/search?q=dokuwiki, gives me a list of questions with tag links.
Clicking one of the tag links, e.g., https://stackexchange.com/questions/...
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Can you make the “share” box actually wide enough to fit URLs?
This is a daily occurrence as I use StackExchange. Hit "Share..." Get the popup box, then struggle to select the entire URL.
While there may be iOS issues here, the point is the share textbox is ...
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Title changes in HNQs make browsers mark them as 'unvisited'
In the below example it shows one link as visited another as unvisited. However I have previously read both posts.
Can the URL be changed either to short form, or to not include the title.
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HNQ links sometimes hard to see [duplicate]
The Hot Network Questions tab exists on many sites. It is (almost) always dark-ish text on a white background. Usually, links that I've clicked on before change color, which helps me keep track of ...
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Should the cross-site link title conversion limit be increased on this site?
I noticed this answer which has seven links to posts on different per-site metas.
When typing up the post in the preview, the post renders just fine, and all the links render correctly as titles:
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asked May 31 '19 at 18:32
Sonic the Anonymous Hedgehog
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No last activity link when the only answers are deleted
On questions that have answers, links that say "modified x mins ago" point to
https://meta.stackexchange.com/questions/####/slug/?lastactivity
On questions where there are no (undeleted) answers, ...
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Links to IPv6 addresses work as expected in answers, but cannot be used in comments
Sandbox example: https://meta.stackexchange.com/a/328811/192262
I can type http://[::1] in a question or answer, and it'll automatically turn into a link. I can also use markdown to format it as link,...
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Can someone please fix the link in the 'access to moderator tools' privilege page?
I was discussing deletion privileges with someone when I noticed that help/privileges/moderator-tools includes an unformatted link:
Can the page be updated so the link reads as the actual title of ...
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Pasting hyperlink as text with leading space leads needlessly to broken links [duplicate]
When inserting a link via the SE editor it happens a lot that a broken link is generated.
This seems to happen because a link is selected as text and pasted into the box.
The result is a generated ...
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Clicking “cancel” on link insertion dialog submits the post
In an unfinished and not-ready-for-publication post, I tried to insert a link from the toolbar of the SE-internal editor. Unsatisfied with the result, I wanted to just cancel the dialog. That was "...
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Is the site 'i.stack.infuriating.com' affiliated with Stack Exchange?
The (now deleted) questing in Biology SE Why female mosquito not considered as a parasites? appears to contain an embedded image but it is not displaying for me.
The URL is shown below, it looks ...
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Clicking on answer item from the achivements dialog doesn't close the dialog
Achivements dialog can contains items linked to the answers (e.g. when your answers got votes or you accept an answer for your question). In that case if you already had opened a page via that link, ...
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Is there a way to link users to their profile page? [duplicate]
Say I'm writing a post on meta, and I want to direct the reader to a specific section of their profile page. One thing one can do is to just link to the profile page of the OP who asked the question, ...
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Formatting problems with double quotes in URLs, mostly affecting the preview
One site I link to (Google) uses URLs with unencoded double quotes (") in them; I usually truncate the URL until it ends in a double quote so it's not as long. This creates problems either way in the ...
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Is there a preferred method/format for replacing broken links with links to archived copies?
Is there a preferred method/format for replacing broken links with links to archived copies.
I was viewing this question:
Get id of div from its class name
and found this answer: https://...
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When linking to GitHub, what's the policy on permalinks (specific commit) vs up-to-date info (master)?
E.g. see suggested-edits/22923009 which changes https://github.com/…/33d6380103576782901c208e68488cc0b5af433b/… to https://github.com/…/master/….
I intentionally put a GitHub permalink in the ...
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URLs for deleted questions get SEO'd automatically - is this a security issue? [duplicate]
When a user visits the link of a deleted questions, he can still see the title in the address bar. For example, when I go to https://stackoverflow.com/q/1, which is a deleted question, it redirects ...
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Links in E-Mails look like phishing
Stackexchange started to use URLs in E-Mails, that look like phishing and have nothing to do with the real stackexchange domains.
Example:
<a
href="http://sg-links.stackoverflow.email/wf/...
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Is dropping the final period in a bare url done by-design?
I have no idea if this is a potentially exploitable security issue or just a nit pick. In this comment:
yep! ;-) btw that's A._B._and_C. If you just past the link without the brackets, the SE url ...
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Non-clickable message shows the clickable cursor [duplicate]
Hovering over "comments disabled on deleted/locked posts/reviews" should not show the hand cursor, since it is not clickable (clicking does nothing).
One example is right under this question, which ...
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“answered X hours ago by Y” link should go to Y's answer rather than to the top of the question
Each site's home presents a list of recently active questions. For those items that are marked "answered X hours ago by Y", the link goes to the top of the question.
When I click on the link, ...
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File Sharing Links, are they allowed, or should they be avoided? [duplicate]
See: Please add a system to allow file uploads attached to questions and answers
Question has largely already been answered (in above link); I have found further discussion helpful, as clarification ...
