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HTML links, generally those created within the network on questions, answers, or the site itself.
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Linking `[foo]` results in []'s being incorrectly escaped [duplicate]
Well, as the title says, I guess:
Start off with [foo].
Use either the keyboard shortcut or editor button to wrap the [foo] in a hyperlink.
... will result in \[foo\] rather than [foo]
This is ...
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Would it be possible to remove the google tracking/affiliate/landing page/whatever clickjacked links?
I recently replaced a Google link from this answer with the actual direct link:
http://math.stackexchange.com/a/37065/19009
Would it be possible for SE to replace them automatically?
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Internal “share” answer links are not converted to a title [duplicate]
Answer:
http://stackoverflow.com/questions/10760326/merge-multiple-lines-two-blocks-in-vim/10760494
http://stackoverflow.com/a/10760494/298479
Question:
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Stack Exchange adds trailing # to URLs
When going to a Stack Exchange user profile (http://stackexchange.com/users/userID/username), and you click All Sites, it leads to http://stackexchange.com/sites#. I see a trailing # in the URL.
So, ...
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Correct capitalization of “How to Ask” short link in comments
So, this is rather small but it's been bothering me a bit.
Quite often when I run into posts by new users that are phrased poorly I want to link them to how to ask after adding a specific thing I ...
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Comment links don't handle last space in label correctly [duplicate]
Links in comments do not work correctly when the last character in the label is a space.
Example:
This works: foo bar
This does not work: foo bar
(in question text it apparently works)
I'll post ...
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Adding URLs on Stack Overflow
I need to insert a link to my comments in stackoverflow.
The domain of the url is a template something like --
http:// mydomain:host /etc/
The issue is that stackoverflow does not let me proceed ...
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Profile link lost its linkiness! [duplicate]
I just noticed Andrew Barber's sock puppet. Along with it, I noticed this:
It seems the system isn't recognizing the link as a link. What gives?
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Links, HTMLs on Stack Overflow's About Me column
How do we post links on "About Me" Stack Overflow? So far, I've tried html, [name][link] format, name format, [name][link_index] format, but seems like it didn't work.. Any ideas?
Here is what I ...
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Shouldn't the hyperlinks in the comment be opening up in a new tab? [duplicate]
I started using stackoverflow recently. Whenever I posted any hyperlinks in the comment, they open up in the same tab.
I might be missing something here, but wouldn't it be great if they open up in ...
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Eeek! The links in the mobile inbox have disappeared!
On the mobile site, the links in the inbox aren't links anymore. Here's a screenshot (click it to enlarge):
I have also reproduced it on a computer by clicking the "mobile" link in the footer.
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Separate “share” from “direct link”
Background
Often I wish to quote other answers in my own answers or comments, at that time I need a direct link to the answer. That is of course what the share button is for.
Crazy work arounds
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Make links in comments immune to being hidden by username
In this comment, there is a clickable link (the word here); however, because of the distance between the word and the dotted underline, it is actually covered by the grey box surrounding the author's ...
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Link to title beautifier not engaged upon migration [duplicate]
If you give the raw link to a question on a site or its meta - for example the raw text of http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/9134/jon-skeet-facts becomes Jon Skeet Facts on MSO without need for ...
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Change hyperlink text for the magical [help/foo] shortcuts
Often when I am commenting on why a question is off-topic, I ask people to look at what is on-topic.
SE added support for more magical links; now writing [help/on-topic] translates to the local ...
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1answer
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Why are some comment IDs not linked in the API?
Based on this query, there is inconsistent behavior with the comment ids.
For instance, the first ID is listed as follows:
"comment_id": 15780,
"post_id": 7622,
The second is listed as ...
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Add a way to see where links go in Android app
I think it would be good to have a way for the user to view the target URL of a link before following it. I'm pretty sure that I'm not the only one who dislikes blind-clicking -tapping links.
When I ...
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JSFiddle and other Live Code Services in New Tab [duplicate]
Quite often, a user will use a service such as JSFiddle to demonstrate their point, and some answerers use it in return for a live demonstration of their code.
I'm not just talking about JSFiddle ...
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How to shorten/beautify referenced SO URLs
One thing I love about Markdown is that it's possible to write content so
that if you follow a few rules, your content can be either converted to
(HT)ML and styled needed but still pretty much ...
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Markdown link behave differently in edit/review and final version
I noticed this while proposing an edit to fix a link.
Old version (at the end of a post, if it matters...)
Source: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/.ipa_(file_extension)
show a broken link in final ...
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Don't duplicate URLs for links added via GUI button
In this answer I needed to put many links for reader's convenience. I always like to link API docs for functions I'm using in my answers, I believe it adds a bit of value. But some names I needed to ...
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Tag wiki excerpt for R repeatedly edited to add hyperlink
Following several discussion on meta regarding hyperlinks in tag wiki excerpts, I've suggested an edit to remove the hyperlink in r excerpt.
Unfortunately, the hyperlink returned, in an unanimously ...
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1answer
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Wrong “Open a Question” URL on Network Login Troubleshooting Page
The "If you're unable to fix the issues, please open a question on our meta discussion site." link on the Network Login Troubleshooting page does not work.
It doesn't work because there are two ...
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2answers
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Fast Reports Website Banned?
The comment is deleted now, but in a question on Stack Overflow, someone commented with a link to a page, but changed .com to .xxx and explained that .xxx had to be changed to .com - because that ...
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Any way to work around filtering of links containing numeric addresses?
In a question I posted recently, I tried to include a link to a web page where the host is specified as a numeric IP address (50.56.33.56) rather than a domain name. However, the StackExchange server ...
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1answer
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When image linked to image the Android app displays it twice
On my last question, I used markdown to link to the larger versions of the screenshots. When you tap on the image the native OS browser opens to URL. Then when I return to the app, I have a WebView ...
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User adding answers linking to his own site everywhere
So I've come across this user
All his answers link to his own site and provide no further explanation. Should I just flag all the answers?
I have flagged this answer and provided some feedback. But ...
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Plaintext notification emails do not link to questions
This is what the text/plain part of a notification email looks like:
The following items were added to your Stack Exchange global inbox since you last checked it on 2013-09-17:
Sep, 17 Cannot ...
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2answers
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data.stackexchange.com site URLs contain spaces
Below are a list of the links from http://data.stackexchange.com that currently have spaces in them:
http://data.stackexchange.com/drupal%20answers/queries
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Add filter page link on Stack Exchange profile page
In a profile page of any Stack Exchange site if we filter any tab, it adds &sort=XYZ. E.g. the activity tab on my meta profile page. In the activity tab if you click on particular filter option ...
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Invalid site in profile allowed?
I was taking a look at this user profile, which seems to have a invalid URL for the site:
Why is this allowed (I believe hyphens are not permitted as the last character in a FQDN) and isn't the ...
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Body links in meta are hidden in plain view in mobile at default size
Find the link(s) in this question, opened at the default size in portrait mode on an iPad:
If I zoom in, the underlines appear, but then not all of the content is on the screen:
This happens the ...
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1answer
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How to link comments or answer in url using url#Id
Sometime I need to share answer with someone and want that directly user get focus on the answer or comment I am referring I have seen Urls containing the Id of post or comment with #, Is there a way ...
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Possible illegal content linked on answer?
This question's only answer suggested illegally downloading a book - I flagged it with other and this stipulation but it's been up for almost 24 hours. What else can I / should I do here?
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Can I create links to comments/answers on the same thread via their #fragment?
This is somewhat but not quite entirely the same thing as this.
Simple thing - sometimes I'd like to refer to a comment or an answer on the same thread. I know I could simply use a full link to that ...
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Is it OK to replace links to cplusplus.com with links to cppreference.com on SO [duplicate]
I have been replacing links to cplusplus.com with links to cppreference.com for a while. This behaviour has got some attention recently and I have been advised to continue only if consensus is reached ...
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Can I place a link on my profile description?
I have a stack overflow account, and also I have an account in certain freelance jobs sites, is there a problem if I place a link there in case someone would like to hire me?
Or am I violating any ...
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Does StackOverflow have any servers which don't return content length?
I'm trying to debug something reported in this question. The OP is using http://stackoverflow.com/ as a test to check file size (content-length). OP claims that StackOverflow.com returns 0 or -1, but ...
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Change Help Center links to show their title
For example, if I paste the link http://stackoverflow.com/help/on-topic in a comment, change the anchor text to "Help Center: What topics can I ask about here?" I think this should be done the same ...
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Current Links examples in Formatting Help Center page have spurious backticks
There are spurious inline code backticks in the current Links and Advanced Links examples in the Help Center.
Here's what the first part currently looks like; same problem for the "Advanced links" ...
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Improve the usability/intuitiveness of direct comment links
I have seen many people share links which go directly to a specific comment. I wanted to do this too today but I couldn't figure out how. I had to search here on Meta to find this Q&A:
Direct ...
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Bulk change hyperlinks
Is there a feature somewhere for notifying/making bulk updates to hyperlinks?
I have moved a website recently that has a fair number of links on StackOverflow. I don't really want to go around ...
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All answers on “Deleted Recent Answers” page are linked to <question-URL>/0#0
All answers on "Deleted Recent Answers" are linked as <question-URL>/0#0 which is not redirecting us to our deleted answer. For e.g. the link of one of my deleted answer is giving like this:
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Why aren't links in comments replaced with the name of the question? [duplicate]
When I post the link to a Stack Overflow question in this question, the name of the link is converted to the title of the question:
Get all possible matches for regex (in python)?
When I post the ...
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Some URLs don't give the page not found error but error 404
I've noticed that in SO sites some URLs don't give the standard error "Page not Found" with the waffles but a 404 error.
For example these URLs:
http://meta.stackoverflow.com/a/a/a/a/a/a/a/a/a/a/
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Policy on linking to code sharing sites (e.g. sqlfiddle, codepad)
In this MySQL question, a commenter told the asker to include the full DB schema in the question body, rather than a link to sqlfiddle.
Is there a policy for use of these code sharing sites, which ...
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Unable to follow links in comments on Android app
I haven't been able to crash the Android app (yet). But, I'm unable to follow links that are apart of the comments. When I attempt to click on the link, I just get the context menu to vote up the ...
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The link for duplicate answers is rendered as plain text [duplicate]
I was looking at an automatic flag for a duplicate answer on Drupal Answers, and I noticed the link is rendered as plain text, not a link.
If that makes any difference, I am a moderator on DA.
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Links rendered incorrectly [duplicate]
I just posted an answer to a question: Codeigniter not displaying stylsheet when clicking on links
I used example links that seems to have rendered really badly, with half-generated HTML anchors...
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1answer
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The “an account” link (displayed with with “add comment”) returns a 404 [duplicate]
I was checking out Stack Apps and wanted to log in. I clicked "an account"…
…and the site returns a 404 Page Not Found:
Apparently the "add account" link is linking to ...
