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Creating a Hyperlink in a Comment Box
I am not sure if this has been asked before. Could anyone teach me how to create a hyperlink in a comment box? Posting URL's (especially those that are very long) seems to be a very ugly way of ...
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How to format links in comments
I wonder how to provide nice links in comments, similar to the links in the question/answers. I tried
<a href="link">link description</a>
and
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Carets stop hyperlinks working.
The caret symbol, ^, stops hyperlinks working, a phenomenon usually seen in links to Wolfram Alpha.
The [description](hyperlink) form:
this works, produced by [this ...
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How do you cite a reference in a comment?
If I want to quote a reference in an answer on this site, I use the syntax [Here][1] followed at the end of the answer by ...
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1answer
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Link copying causes misinterpretation in mark-down in comments
In a comment to Henry's answer in a recent question I copied a link from Wikipedia directly from my browser window to the comments box. However, upon submitting the comment, the link was ...
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1answer
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How to include a link in the text?
I'd like to share a link in a comment/question/answer hiding the link to some paper and showing instead the title, how can one do this?
Thanks.
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Links / URLs containing special characters are not recognized by markdown
In this answer, I linked to some page within the Wolfram alpha site, and the links did not appear. For example, I will try to link the last word in this sentence. Here is the URL I was trying to link ...
