Questions tagged [hyperlinks]
HTML links, generally those created within the network on questions, answers, or the site itself.
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Comments don't have links on review pages
On Q&A pages, comments (whether already existing or just created by you), have timestamps with links to the exact comment, like e.g. GitHub.
This is not the case when reviewing a post (example); ...
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Links inside spoilers don't work anymore
When a link is included in a spoiler, clicking it does nothing. You can try it out below:
Right-clicking the link and choosing something like 'Open link in new tab' works, but is more cumbersome.
It ...
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Communities in the Hide Communities page aren't links, but they should be
I was looking at the communities in the Hide Communities page when I noticed that the communities aren't links, for some reason. I was going through an account purge for a bunch of sites I've never ...
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Ban/Destroy users with obvious spam URLs in their profile [duplicate]
Doing a bit of experimenting with SEDE to find profile spam I found some common hostnames, while some are expected like github, linkedin,facebook etc. I also found quite a bit of spam hosts used by ...
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Not able to click link for "Invited" chat tab
I locate to this dropdown using my mobile phone and choose the chat option.
This opens the chat in mobile phone. There I notice this.
In this image as seen, the invited tab is not a hyperlink (it's a ...
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Chat: Incorrect formatting of cursive or bold text adjacent to brackets
All of these fail to be formatted correctly in Chat:
\[*test*\]
Expected: [test]
Actual: [*test*]
[[*test*]](https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/test)
Expected: [test]
Actual: [[test]](en.wiktionary.org/...
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An apostrophe after a CommonMark hyperlink breaks the client-side preview renderer (but still renders correctly server-side)
An Example
At softwarerecs.stackexchange.com/posts/93650/edit/0ca6aecd-c013-42bb-b9f3-b41c3c60ae33 (note that the appended hash is removable), [`meta.stackexchange.com/q/412232`][2]'s breaks the ...
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Add a link to the per-site meta in the "Don't Ask" Help Center page
The help center page What types of questions should I avoid asking? has a final paragraph
If your question is about the site itself, please don't ask it here. Visit our meta-discussion site, where ...
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Link with tilde working in preview but not in post
ethtool and turning of rxvlan is an Ask Ubuntu answer I created yesterday, which contains hyperlinks to source files under https://git.launchpad.net/
While creating the answer, when in the editor ...
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Opening developer survey results link from the top bar notice leads to empty page
I used link from the top bar notice on Stack Overflow on Russia to open in a new tab:
Full link is: https://survey.stackoverflow.co/2025?utm_medium=referral&utm_source=stackoverflow-community&...
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Links from traducir to transifex for translatable sentences should be updated
In traducir there are links for each sentence to transifex source, e.g.:
Currently link has the following format (as an example for ruSO):
https://www.transifex.com/stack-exchange/stack-overflow-ru/...
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URL fails to change properly when clicking "Visit" links in Area 51, resulting in all internal links on page becoming broken
When visiting a beta site from the "Visit!" link on an Area 51 proposal page, one goes to a link of the form area51.stackexchange.com/proposals/[proposal ID]/proposal-name/visit. Previously, ...
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Wrong URLs in updated flag dialog
It looks like there has been a recent deploy. When flagging a question, two links in the dialog are broken:
The URL for 'closed' has a weird $closedHelpUrl in it and links to the question itself, and ...
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Citation Helper for general scientific/scholarly sources
I became just aware of citation helper, a tool that queries the webservice https://zbmath.org/ to turn abstract ids of papers in the field of mathematics into human-readable citations fit for ...
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Underline hyperlinks in chat messages even when not hovered over (for accessibility)
Hyperlinks in chat messages only show underlining when hovered over with the pointer. This isn't very good for accessibility. See the WebAIM guidance on link underlining. This never bothered me, but I ...
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How can I return a table with links to comments in SEDE?
E.g. consider this SEDE query that lists 5 comments:
select top 5 c1.id, c1.Text
from Comments c1
ORDER BY id ASC
Output:
How can I add a column containing links to the comments (not links to the ...
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How can one add an alt text for a linked image?
As a follow-up on Can we make image description required?, I wonder: How can one add an alt text for a linked image?
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rads.stackoverflow.com redirections are not functioning properly
Links to rads.stackoverflow.com are used to redirect (e.g. to Amazon) to add Stack Exchange's affiliate cookie. I just saw a site member on "my" site mention that the redirect was failing, ...
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meta.site link redirects broken after cloud migration?
Some time in the past, the default format for meta site URLs was switched from meta.site.stackexchange.com to site.meta.stackexchange.com. Some places on our network still contain links which point to ...
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Hypertext link URL editing seems broken or at least difficult to use in Rich Text editor mode
I was trying to correct a broken link in an old answer of mine on Stack Overflow, and really struggled until I realised that it was in Rich Text mode. (When did that happen? Not been very active on SO ...
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When an answer is deleted, what would the URL to that answer point to?
This is the URL of an answer: https://stackoverflow.com/a/79477767
It's deleted. However I expect to be redirected to the question it answers to, not the 404 page. So if it's an 404 page, that means ...
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Inserting links is confusing in Stacks Editor WYSIWYG mode
If you click on the "Insert Link" button in the new Stacks Editor when it is in WYSIWYG mode a small dialog opens where you can insert Link text and target. But at the same moment the cursor ...
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Answer Bot's "Network profile" is a dead link
On Answer Bot's user profile (e.g., on Web Apps), the "Network profile" link leads to https://stackexchange.com/users/-2/answer-bot, which doesn't exist ("Page Not Found").
The ...
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Add convenience link to My questions [closed]
On e.g.,
https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions
there could be a convenience link added to "My questions".
That would save the user having to poke around, eventually arriving at e.g.,
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Hard to distinguish hyperlinks
Return to question is a hyperlink,
Top questions is not a hyperlink.
Alas the typeface and colors look about the same.
Seen on the English Language Stack Exchange.
OK, fine, they are slightly ...
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How does the network want to handle links to X?
Ever since Elon Musk took over Twitter and renamed it to X[1] [2], the site has become an increasingly inflammatory platform[3], even more so than before. Extremist users have taken over the site and ...
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Make sidebar links (e.g. "example newsletter") look different than plain text, as before
Links in sidebar boxes (e.g. "example newsletter" in "Love this site?" or "writing great tag wikis" in "What are Tag Wikis?") look exactly the same as the text ...
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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" [closed]
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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Magic columns and site:// do not work for alcohol.meta.stackexchange
The site Beer, Wine & Spirits has the URL https://alcohol.stackexchange.com but in SEDE it uses beer for the main site and beerme for meta.
As far as I can tell, the shortcut site:// and the magic ...
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Will developers listen to hostile podcast? (aka wrong URL of podcast iframe breaking it)
In the Will developers return to hostile offices? blog post, there is iframe pointing to the podcast episode.
However, it's broken:
For reference, this is how it should look like: (taken from this ...
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MathOverflow links on Mathematics Stack Exchange [duplicate]
Sometimes on Mathematics Stack Exchange, I would like to reference a link from MathOverflow. It would be helpful if it got immediately turned into the title without having to type it and then include ...
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Problem with link to text fragment [duplicate]
When I write a link to a text fragment, like this, the link works in the editor preview properly (on the linked page skips to the given text fragment and highlights it), but on the published question, ...
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Per-site inauthentic usage policy links to MSE for referencing standards (as opposed to per-site pages)
I've picked two sites here - Magento and Aviation as examples.
Each site, linked from the per-site CoC, has an inauthentic usage policy. At the end of the policy, it has a link to referencing ...
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