Questions tagged [hyperlinks]
HTML links, generally those created within the network on questions, answers, or the site itself.
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rads.stackoverflow.com redirections are not functioning properly
Links to rads.stackoverflow.com are used to redirect (e.g. to Amazon) to add Stack Exchange's affiliate cookie. I just saw a site member on "my" site mention that the redirect was failing, ...
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meta.site link redirects broken after cloud migration?
Some time in the past, the default format for meta site URLs was switched from meta.site.stackexchange.com to site.meta.stackexchange.com. Some places on our network still contain links which point to ...
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Hypertext link URL editing seems broken or at least difficult to use in Rich Text editor mode
I was trying to correct a broken link in an old answer of mine on Stack Overflow, and really struggled until I realised that it was in Rich Text mode. (When did that happen? Not been very active on SO ...
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When an answer is deleted, what would the URL to that answer point to?
This is the URL of an answer: https://stackoverflow.com/a/79477767
It's deleted. However I expect to be redirected to the question it answers to, not the 404 page. So if it's an 404 page, that means ...
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Inserting links is confusing in Stacks Editor WYSIWYG mode
If you click on the "Insert Link" button in the new Stacks Editor when it is in WYSIWYG mode a small dialog opens where you can insert Link text and target. But at the same moment the cursor ...
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Answer Bot's "Network profile" is a dead link
On Answer Bot's user profile (e.g., on Web Apps), the "Network profile" link leads to https://stackexchange.com/users/-2/answer-bot, which doesn't exist ("Page Not Found").
The ...
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Add convenience link to My questions [closed]
On e.g.,
https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions
there could be a convenience link added to "My questions".
That would save the user having to poke around, eventually arriving at e.g.,
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Hard to distinguish hyperlinks
Return to question is a hyperlink,
Top questions is not a hyperlink.
Alas the typeface and colors look about the same.
Seen on the English Language Stack Exchange.
OK, fine, they are slightly ...
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How does the network want to handle links to X?
Ever since Elon Musk took over Twitter and renamed it to X[1] [2], the site has become an increasingly inflammatory platform[3], even more so than before. Extremist users have taken over the site and ...
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Make sidebar links (e.g. "example newsletter") look different than plain text, as before
Links in sidebar boxes (e.g. "example newsletter" in "Love this site?" or "writing great tag wikis" in "What are Tag Wikis?") look exactly the same as the text ...
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Location, GitHub, and Twitter links do not get copied over upon creating an account on a new site [duplicate]
When creating a profile after updating your location field, Twitter, and GitHub links on all profiles, they do not get copied over to the new account, though a website link (and everything else) does.
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All elections you did not vote for have results with a dead link to OpaVote download page
This is what the election result usually looks like when you did not vote in that election (example from Islam but I can reproduce it on Solana and Board & Card Games and probably plenty others):
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Unable to copy edit question link when don't have edit privilege and the suggested edits queue is full
When adding a comment to request clarification on a question from a new user I try and start the comment with "please edit the question..." where "edit" is a hyperlink to the /edit ...
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Stack Exchange's email when you sign up contains a somewhat misleading link
When you sign up for Stack Exchange, you receive an email inviting you to contribute. It invites you to "Get started with new questions that no one’s answered yet" (emphasis mine). Except ...
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Support for QR code link generation for Stack Exchange? [closed]
It would be useful if links could have a QR code next to them as an anti-spoofing or URL-shortening feature. I would guess that in mobile phone browsers this is already supported?
