# Embedding a link in the "quote" header **URL:** \ **Category:** About This Message Board\ **Created:** [February 19, 2010, 2:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/embedding-a-link-in-the-quote-header/529624 "2010-02-19T14:20:57Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 12\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Lumpy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lumpy/32/446_2.png) [@Lumpy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lumpy)\ **Post date:** [February 19, 2010, 2:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/embedding-a-link-in-the-quote-header/529624/1 "2010-02-19T14:20:57Z")
How the heck did **FinnAgain** do this in this post? [http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showpost.php?p=12136887&postcount=32](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showpost.php?p=12136887&postcount=32) ---
**Author:** ![TubaDiva](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/tubadiva/32/507_2.png) [@TubaDiva](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TubaDiva)\ **Post date:** [February 19, 2010, 3:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/embedding-a-link-in-the-quote-header/529624/2 "2010-02-19T15:07:57Z")
If you click on “Edit” you can usually see how someone built something. And you can always test it out in ATMB if you need to make a practice post. In this case he simply put the URL in the quote tag, like this: [noparse][ > [@](#): > > Fighting Ignorance Since 1973 ]([http://www.straightdope.com/](http://www.straightdope.com/))It’s taking longer than we thought.[/noparse] Which gives you [ > [@](#): > > Fighting Ignorance Since 1973 ]([http://www.straightdope.com/](http://www.straightdope.com/))It’s taking longer than we thought. (Learn something new every day if you’re not careful.) ---
**Author:** ![twickster](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/ec9cab/32.png) [@twickster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/twickster)\ **Post date:** [February 19, 2010, 3:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/embedding-a-link-in-the-quote-header/529624/3 "2010-02-19T15:54:05Z")
Note: Regular users can’t use “edit” on another person’s post (or on their own, after more than five minutes). Try using “quote,” which will put everything, including the coding, into the reply box for you to examine at your leisure. ---
**Author:** ![TubaDiva](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/tubadiva/32/507_2.png) [@TubaDiva](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TubaDiva)\ **Post date:** [February 19, 2010, 5:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/embedding-a-link-in-the-quote-header/529624/4 "2010-02-19T17:02:13Z")
That is true. My oops. ---
**Author:** ![Lumpy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lumpy/32/446_2.png) [@Lumpy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lumpy)\ **Post date:** [February 19, 2010, 6:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/embedding-a-link-in-the-quote-header/529624/5 "2010-02-19T18:35:17Z")
Ah, I hadn’t noticed that the entired quoted text was a link. I was thinking there was some way to have _just_ the word “Quote:” preceding the text be a link. Makes more sense now. ---
**Author:** ![BigT](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bigt/32/12044_2.png) [@BigT](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BigT)\ **Post date:** [February 19, 2010, 10:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/embedding-a-link-in-the-quote-header/529624/6 "2010-02-19T22:42:13Z")
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**Author:** ![Tapioca\_Dextrin](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/3d9bf3/32.png) [@Tapioca\_Dextrin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tapioca_Dextrin)\ **Post date:** [February 19, 2010, 10:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/embedding-a-link-in-the-quote-header/529624/7 "2010-02-19T22:45:41Z")
You can embed links into smileys, too 😃 ---
**Author:** ![FinnAgain](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/finnagain/32/12500_2.png) [@FinnAgain](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/FinnAgain)\ **Post date:** [February 20, 2010, 8:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/embedding-a-link-in-the-quote-header/529624/8 "2010-02-20T20:23:41Z")
Important note, the url tags must go outside the quote tags. Otherwise you don’t get clean text inside a box that’s a link, you get a bunch of underlined text in the box and it’s annoying. ---
**Author:** ![Lumpy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lumpy/32/446_2.png) [@Lumpy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lumpy)\ **Post date:** [February 20, 2010, 10:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/embedding-a-link-in-the-quote-header/529624/9 "2010-02-20T22:01:16Z")
> [@FinnAgain](#): > > Important note, the url tags must go outside the quote tags. Otherwise you don’t get clean text inside a box that’s a link, you get a bunch of underlined text in the box and it’s annoying. Umm… this is weird; when I first go to such a page such as the link in the OP, the text is clean. But if I preview or otherwise go to another page and then return, the text is all underlined. ---
**Author:** ![FinnAgain](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/finnagain/32/12500_2.png) [@FinnAgain](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/FinnAgain)\ **Post date:** [February 21, 2010, 1:05am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/embedding-a-link-in-the-quote-header/529624/10 "2010-02-21T01:05:52Z")
That is weird, never had that happen to me. ---
**Author:** ![BigT](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bigt/32/12044_2.png) [@BigT](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BigT)\ **Post date:** [February 21, 2010, 2:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/embedding-a-link-in-the-quote-header/529624/11 "2010-02-21T02:14:26Z")
> [@Lumpy](#): > > Umm… this is weird; when I first go to such a page such as the link in the OP, the text is clean. But if I preview or otherwise go to another page and then return, the text is all underlined. Which browser do you use? I had that problem on IE7, I think it was. ---
**Author:** ![Equipoise](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/equipoise/32/151_2.png) [@Equipoise](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Equipoise)\ **Post date:** [February 22, 2010, 1:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/embedding-a-link-in-the-quote-header/529624/12 "2010-02-22T13:44:04Z")
Makes me wonder, can we embed a link in our shiny new titles? I don’t want to try it without asking first lest it come out all weird and code-y.