Questions tagged [hyperlinks]
HTML links, generally those created within the network on questions, answers, or the site itself.
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Best way to avoid chopped hyperlink in notification email? [closed]
Here is an interesting situation.
Here we are in the Roundcube mail reader.
We are looking at the text/plain part of this multipart MIME message.
Alas, the preview cutoff happened right in the middle ...
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In high contrast mode only the "Cookie settings" link in the footer is underlined
When high contrast is enabled, usually all links are underlined.
Except for the footer where they are not underlined.
Except for "Cookie settings" which is underlined.
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Does embedding a hidden domain in a question help SEO rankings?
Say one posts a question that includes some sample HTML in a code block:
<p>
<a href="mailto:sales@exa&#...
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Should a link redirect to a specific version or the current version?
I came across this suggested edit, and here is a screenshot:
The edit simply updates the link from a specific version, to the "current" version. The old link is already working.
As the new ...
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Raw links are hyperlinked differently between the live preview and the rendered post
In the live preview, a raw hyperlink is hyperlinked if it is prefaced with a whitespace or a punctuation character.
In the rendered post, a raw hyperlink is hyperlinked only if prefaced with a ...
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Links to comments on Collective articles don't onebox in chat, which is counter to expectations
In chat, I pasted a link to a Collectives article comment, and expected the chat message to expand into a oneboxed (quoted, properly linked and attributed) copy of the actual text of the comment.
I ...
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"DreaminCode" links redirect to a gambling site. How can we handle posts that link to this domain?
I noticed this edit which I rejected had the edit comment as:
ATTENTION. the link redirects you to a scam slot machine site
Sure enough, it does. I flagged this post in question for a mod to review....
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Additional shorter URL for questions and answers
In the same way a YouTube video of URL https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vqcf2GGiczU has a permanent shorter URL (for easier sharing) youtu.be/Vqcf2GGiczU, is there a similar thing for posts?
Example ...
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Can we have automatic pretty links to questions in comments? [duplicate]
I adore that you can write a link to a Stack Exchange question in a post like: https://stackoverflow.com/q/1452721/5740428 and it automatically expands to Why is "using namespace std;" ...
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PHP documentation links need a cleanup
Back in the earliest days of PHP, people ran various localized mirrors of the PHP website, including documentation. The main site has always lived at https://www.php.net but mirrors lived under ...
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Link to rep gain in Super User links to SO when accessed from SO
See comment below: Already reported on meta.
I made an edit to a Super User question. I don't have enough rep to auto-edit, so it went through the approval process and, later, was approved. (I don't ...
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Link to a specific spot in a Stack Overflow question/answer
Following this Stack
Overflow answer, I added a named anchor ElimRestErrs to a heading in an answer I posted:
# <a name="ElimRestErrs">Eliminating the rest of the errors</a>
The ...
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Feature request: Rewrite Java Bug Database links
This post is a request for the Stack Overflow team to use the internal link rewriting tool described in Meta Stack Exchange answer How to find and/or change a set of hyperlinks on a site? to bulk ...
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Bulk URL replacement for broken Java Bug Database hyperlinks in posts
Do we ever bulk update URLs? The Java Bug Database URL format appears to have changed from http://bugs.sun.com/bugdatabase/view_bug.do?bug_id=6754672 to https://bugs.java.com/bugdatabase/view_bug?...
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Hovering link to question show the wrong title based on link itself
I see a link to this post: How can I convert my Java program to an .exe file?
Here it is:
As you can see, the question is named "how can i convert" with lower cases but the question have ...
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