# How do I embed a link in a post?

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**Created:** [May 14, 2003, 7:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-do-i-embed-a-link-in-a-post/175264 "2003-05-14T19:06:34Z")\
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**Author:** ![BrainGlutton](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/82dd89/32.png) [@BrainGlutton](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BrainGlutton)\
**Post date:** [May 14, 2003, 7:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-do-i-embed-a-link-in-a-post/175264/1 "2003-05-14T19:06:34Z")

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There doesn’t seem to be a button in the “post reply” window for embedding a link, but a lot of dopers apparently know how to do it. I need to know:

1. How to embed a link to an Internet site. Usually I just type out the whole URL, which the program recognizes as a URL (so long as it starts with www.) and automatically embeds. But a lot of dopers post such links without the URL.

2. How to embed a link to another post or thread within the SDMB.

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**Author:** ![Q.E.D](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/q/51bf81/32.png) [@Q.E.D](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Q.E.D)\
**Post date:** [May 14, 2003, 7:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-do-i-embed-a-link-in-a-post/175264/2 "2003-05-14T19:56:13Z")

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[Link Text]([http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?s=&threadid=184026&#093Link](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?s=&threadid=184026&#093Link) Text[/url&#093.

Which would render as:

[url=http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?s=&threadid=184026).

Replace the URL after the url= with the address you want to use. The HTTP:// button in the reply window will prompt you for the information and generate the embedded link automatically.

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**Author:** ![Q.E.D](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/q/51bf81/32.png) [@Q.E.D](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Q.E.D)\
**Post date:** [May 14, 2003, 8:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-do-i-embed-a-link-in-a-post/175264/3 "2003-05-14T20:14:17Z")

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Huh. If you quote my previous post you’ll what I wrote. For some reason it left out the first half of it when it displays, but I have no idea why. Anyway, this is the first part it missed:

[url=http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?s=&threadid=184026&#093Link Text[/url&#093

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**Author:** ![BrainGlutton](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/82dd89/32.png) [@BrainGlutton](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BrainGlutton)\
**Post date:** [May 15, 2003, 10:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-do-i-embed-a-link-in-a-post/175264/4 "2003-05-15T22:48:21Z")

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The HTTP:// button might work if I’m using a known URL – but how do I link to another SDMB post or thread?

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**Author:** ![dantheman](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dantheman/32/9421_2.png) [@dantheman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dantheman)\
**Post date:** [May 15, 2003, 11:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-do-i-embed-a-link-in-a-post/175264/5 "2003-05-15T23:02:20Z")

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Try here: [http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?s=&threadid=103503](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?s=&threadid=103503)

Near the bottom are instructions on how to link to a post within a page.

To link to a thread, you visit the thread first, then cut and paste what’s in the browser window. For example, for this thread it would be [http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?s=&threadid=184026](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?s=&threadid=184026)