Questions tagged [hyperlinks]
HTML links, generally those created within the network on questions, answers, or the site itself.
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Location, GitHub, and Twitter links do not get copied over upon creating an account on a new site [duplicate]
When creating a profile after updating your location field, Twitter, and GitHub links on all profiles, they do not get copied over to the new account, though a website link (and everything else) does.
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All elections you did not vote for have results with a dead link to OpaVote download page
This is what the election result usually looks like when you did not vote in that election (example from Islam but I can reproduce it on Solana and Board & Card Games and probably plenty others):
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Unable to copy edit question link when don't have edit privilege and the suggested edits queue is full
When adding a comment to request clarification on a question from a new user I try and start the comment with "please edit the question..." where "edit" is a hyperlink to the /edit ...
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Stack Exchange's email when you sign up contains a somewhat misleading link
When you sign up for Stack Exchange, you receive an email inviting you to contribute. It invites you to "Get started with new questions that no one’s answered yet" (emphasis mine). Except ...
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Support for QR code link generation for Stack Exchange? [closed]
It would be useful if links could have a QR code next to them as an anti-spoofing or URL-shortening feature. I would guess that in mobile phone browsers this is already supported?
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Is it possible to link to a tags search result?
At times, when writing a meta post, I find linking to a tags search result (i.e 'within' x.stackexchange.com/tags/) would exactly cover the tags I am talking about in the post (e.g. the results of the ...
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Moving the cursor on a link changes the text layout in the Stacks Editor
Moving the cursor on a link changes the text layout in the Stacks Editor. Example:
Tested with Chrome + Windows 10.
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July 2024 roadmap blog post contains http (not https) links
Tl;dr - Could this blog post be updated to use https:// links for MSO/MSE in the final paragraph? Consider using the site names (not domain names) in the visible text, too (meta.stackexchange.com → ...
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Stack Overflow Jobs - FAQ help page - help article link is linked with "/link"
On the "Stack Overflow Jobs -> Frequently Asked Questions" help page, the 5th point discusses how to report a job.
However, the provided link redirects to a 404 error page. Upon ...
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How can we verify the integrity or safety of hyperlinks in SE posts? [duplicate]
So I have been thinking this for a while, and I wanted to ask this on Meta, because this regards and applies to all Stack Exchange sites, not an individual one.
I want to know how we as a community or ...
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Moderator message view has relative link to chat
When viewing a message sent to a user, on the right side of the page is a container with text at the top What is a moderator message?.
At the end of that container there is a link at the end to chat ...
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How can I add a clickable magnet link to a post? [duplicate]
How can I add a clickable magnet link to a post?
I unsuccessfully tried:
[data](magnet:?xt=urn:btih:5f96d43576e3d386c9ba65b883210a393b68210e&tr=https%3A%2F%2Facademictorrents.com%2Fannounce.php&...
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Improving error message when blocking posts due to URL shorteners
Using TinyURL URLs in posts is banned on SE. The error message is:
Body cannot contain "https://tinyurl.com/xai"
Please avoid using URL shorteners; they can break without leaving any useful ...
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Add a way to link to the /tags page with a tag search prefilled
I'd like to link to https://ai.stackexchange.com/tags with tag search = "gpt" prefilled:
Can that be realized?
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Is there a reason not to enable replacing internal SE URL text on comments with the page linked to? [duplicate]
On Super User, I looked for a Linux proportional font terminal, and found OS X or X11 terminal emulator supporting proportional fonts, in which the accepted answer suggested a Mac port of Emacs, but ...
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Debugging links that don't display correctly in chat (without making a big mess) [duplicate]
In Politics's Agora chat room I posted this text and the display was unsatisfactory because the links didn't show nicely.
I expected something like this (except with text dashes instead of the ...
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Markdown for links in comments sometimes breaks with angle brackets and nested square brackets
The following markdown:
[[example].com](https://www.example.com) (<https://www.example.com/abc>)
Produces this in a post:
[example].com (https://www.example.com/abc)
But this in a comment:
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Links to scientific articles in Q/A/C
How can we choose links to scientific articles in questions (Q), answers (A), and comments (C)?
On some Stack Exchange sites, e.g., involved in science, it's indispensable to link to scientific ...
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