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How can I link to a specific answer?

Is there a permalink I can use for answers/comments?
205 votes
1 answer
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Adding links to Comments [duplicate]

While giving comments many times I wanted to add links to my comment. But instead of using some short hand like Read "this" (this is a link in this case) I had to write Read "http:\\www.somelink.com". ...
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179 votes
6 answers
114k views

Links to URLs containing parentheses

How do I add a link to a URL containing parentheses () (or "round brackets" by heathens)? For example: http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/aa752574(VS.85).aspx The parentheses around &...
178 votes
1 answer
318k views

Creating an image link in Markdown format [duplicate]

How can I create an image link using the Markdown format? I want an output like <a href="" rel="some text"><img src="/path/to/file" alt="" /></a&...
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140 votes
2 answers
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What's the recommended syntax for an image with a link?

What's the recommended syntax for an image with a hyperlink? I tried doing it with the markdown toolbar buttons and the image and link buttons conflict with each other, so I had to resort to HTML. For ...
138 votes
1 answer
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What shortened URLs are available through s.tk?

It was announced on the Stack Exchange Podcast episode #23 (at 1:05:26) that Stack Exchange has its own URL shortener, http://s.tk/. Users can't create their own, they can only use the ones that are ...
76 votes
1 answer
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Why are certain example URLs like https://site.com/ and https://mysite.com/ blocked from post content?

Why is https://site.com/ and https://mysite.com/ blocked from the post content on the main site? I tried to make a sample URL and I had to use https://testsite.com instead.
Daniel A. White's user avatar
65 votes
3 answers
2k views

Blogs.sun.com is dead

Long live https://blogs.oracle.com. It appears that blogs.sun.com URLs no longer work. They are now blogs.oracle.com. An Oracle employee is working his way through the relatively small number on ...
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61 votes
5 answers
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Underline appearing for hyperlinks

All the hyperlinks in the Post and Comments in the site are displaying with an underline. Sample link. Previously the hyperlinks are displaying without an underline. While edit the post, in the "...
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61 votes
1 answer
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Which links and sites are handled specially (oneboxed) in chat? How do these oneboxes work?

There is a special linking to some sites in chat, also known as "onebox". What is the full list of supported and integrated sites? Are oneboxes updated if the resource behind them is ...
58 votes
1 answer
2k views

Is there any support for mass link editing?

My old blog is no more. Existing links will (slowly) give a 404. I'm working on getting a new domain structure which I control, so that in the future I can put my own redirects in place etc, but I can'...
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56 votes
2 answers
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Knowing Your Limits: What is the maximum length of a question title, post, image and links used?

There's one question in SO I'm planning to answer with a really long answer. While I'm still baking my post, these questions dawned to me: What is the maximum character length of a post? How many ...
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38 votes
3 answers
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How do I link from one Stack Overflow question to others?

What is the correct way to link from one Stack Overflow question to another one? For example, if I want to reference another question or answer from my question, how would I do that? Should I just ...
Aaron Zeckoski's user avatar
36 votes
1 answer
449 views

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/...
Sonic the Anonymous Hedgehog's user avatar
33 votes
1 answer
12k views

Use hyperlink in comment? [duplicate]

Is it possible to make an hyperlink like this on a comment?
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