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Is there a way to link to a section header in an answer?

Is there a way to link to part of an answer, e.g. a section header within the answer? For example, I wanted to add a link in my profile to a section header in one of my answers that prefaces general ...
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How can I link to a specific answer?

Is there a permalink I can use for answers/comments?
36 votes
1 answer
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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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1 answer
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Can Stack Exchange sites generate pages that link directly to a specific answer?

I would like to be able to provide a link directly to an answer within a page without having to tell someone how to scroll down to the answer of interest. Is this possible or do the StackExchange ...
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1 answer
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Why can't I add an example http url in an answer? [duplicate]

I tried to answer someone's question about a URL format with an example: http://mysite.com/service.asmx?blah=something I got an error saying I can't save an answer with http in it. How can I get ...
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2 answers
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Answer own question with a link to solution at another SE site?

I recently asked a question on Stack Overflow but didn't receive any answers so I posted the same question in gamedev.stackexchange.com (which I didn't know existed before). Now that I got an answer ...
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3 answers
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How do I link to an Answer, rather than the Question? [duplicate]

Possible Duplicate: How can I link to a specific answer? I was trying to include in one of my responses a link to a prior SO answer to give the right credit. However I couldn't find any ...
2 votes
1 answer
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How do I get the hyperlink of an answer?

Is there an easy way to get the hyperlink of an answer? The only ways I know are: Click an edited link, if the question has more than one revision, and copy the hyperlink of Return to ...
7 votes
1 answer
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How can I get the URL of an answer among the long list of answers of a question?

I need to refer to a specific answer but I don't know how to or whether it is available. Please help!
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4 answers
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"Proxy" Answers, good or bad?

Sometimes on SO, some people ask questions that could be simply answered by doing a quick google search and finding a blog entry for example. What your opinion on answering such questions by posting ...