For questions on usage of links at MSE (both links to various parts of this site and to other sites).
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Open links in new tab
Feature request: When clicking on a link in a question or answer, the target should be opened in a new tab.
Motivation: I'd say that between $\frac{3}{8}$ and $\frac{4}{19}$ of the times I click ...
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2answers
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How to quote and link in a comment
Is there any easy way to quote in a comment?
You can quote in a question or an answer easily.
Just put ">" in front of the quoted statements.
However, this does not work in a comment.
Similarly you ...
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0answers
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MathOverflow question links should be auto-converted to the question title
SE software automatically converts short links to questions on the same site to title-based links. For example, the bare URL http://math.stackexchange.com/q/426771 ...
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Update meta.MO links
This meta (and possibly the main site) had quite a lot of links to the meta.MO site, which is now replaced by a modern SE site. The previous meta was moved to http://tea.mathoverflow.net.
Is it ...
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1answer
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What is the preferred way to link references to published material?
I'm asking this since I've already found myself in two minds a couple times about how to refer to a book when answering a question.
I've seen many people link to Google Books previews, when ...
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4answers
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trouble in quoting a page from Wolfram Alpha
I wanted to put a link to Wolfram Alpha. I have plotted $(n!)^{(1/n)}$ (with parentheses included). But
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3
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1answer
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Strategic linking to external math/proof sites
Other things being equal I tend to link to Wikipedia pages for definitions and stock proofs, in part because I've been inspired by researching past questions here to fix things there, and it seems to ...
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1answer
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Creating a Hyperlink in a Comment Box
I am not sure if this has been asked before. Could anyone teach me how to create a hyperlink in a comment box? Posting URL's (especially those that are very long) seems to be a very ugly way of ...
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2answers
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Using automated solutions, such as WolframAlpha?
I recently answered this question copying a solution directly from WolframAlpha. I want to know if this method is considered valid here on MSE because there're similar problems that can be solved ...
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Special characters in question body stop hyperlink working
There is a question whose hyperlink does not work, i.e. the mouse pointer doesn't change when I move it over the question title.
Here is a screen shot:
This is part of the Unanswered Questions list. ...
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2answers
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Questions not accessible from main page
It appears that certain questions are not accessible from the main page, e.g. this question:
Re-writing sign basis. I finally got it over the user's page, but the links on the main page or the tag ...
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1answer
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what links here?
Do we have a "what links here" feature such as that on Wikipedia? One would click on "what links here" and see a list of questions, answers, comments, etc., that link to the question or answer or ...
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1answer
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How to format links in comments
I wonder how to provide nice links in comments, similar to the links in the question/answers. I tried
<a href="link">link description</a>
and
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2answers
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Carets stop hyperlinks working.
The caret symbol, ^, stops hyperlinks working, a phenomenon usually seen in links to Wolfram Alpha.
The [description](hyperlink) form:
this works, produced by [this ...
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1answer
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How to link to a particular answer? [duplicate]
Possible Duplicate:
Distinguishing between questions and answers in references.
In the past, if I've encountered a particularly good answer to a question, and later found a question for ...
