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Tagged with hyperlinks answers
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How can I link to a specific answer?
Is there a permalink I can use for answers/comments?
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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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Should we flag answers that only contain a link to another Stack Overflow answer? [duplicate]
Possible Duplicate:
What do we do with answers that are just links to other Stack Overflow answers?
There are many, many answers that simply contain a link to another Stack Overflow answer, ...
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Small but annoying problem: References to other answers are lost after name changes
There are answers or comments which refer to answers by another user's username without providing a link to them, if the user's name has changed there is no way to know which answer is being referred.
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How can you get the permalink for an answer to a question?
I wanted to link to an answer to a Stack Overflow question, but couldn't find a way to do it. I couldn't get the ID of the answer in order to create the link.
How can you get the permalink for an ...
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Linking to /?lastactivity breaks when that activity is on second or greater page [duplicate]
When viewing posts by recently active, the last action can generally be linked to directly by clicking the "answered/modified" link. For example, the "answered 5 hours ago" text circled here:
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Direct link to specific answers [duplicate]
Would it be a good idea to have the capability to directly link to a specific answer? Sometimes when answering questions, I would like to link to another questions's answer, but it isn't always the ...
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This user seems primarily to be promoting their own blog; What should I do?
I'm speaking of this user.
Many of their posts are merely links to a couple blogs, and I have flagged them as "not an answer" and left hopefully helpful comments for the user.
But while looking at ...
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Old links to answer sort orders became broken after the change to answer sort tabs
I previously posted this as an answer (10k-only) to the announcement Revisiting changes to answer sorting menu: better use of space, moving menu into a dropdown, ascending/descending sort options, ...
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Dealing with malicious links internally/externally
Occasionally I'll notice a link within a question/answer/comment that might have been legitimately mistyped, however, I'm thinking this might not always be the case.
If not paying careful attention ...
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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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Answer links from search pages do not load the page at the linked answer
This appears to have started breaking in the last four hours or so.
To reproduce:
Do a search for answers on a Stack Exchange site. For the sake of a demonstration I'll use is:a on Meta Stack ...
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Permalink to answer not working (possibly because the answer is not on the first page)
This URL (obtained by right-clicking "link" below the answer and selecting "copy link location"):
Designing function f(f(n)) == -n
leads to a blank page.
I assume it is designed to go to whatever ...
Perpetual Motion Goat
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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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Answer with outdated links
I have a question regarding outdated links in answers.
While browsing through Stack Overflow, I stumbled upon this post that was finally answered by giving the right hyperlink. Unfortunately, this ...
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