# How do you link to a post within a thread? **URL:** \ **Category:** About This Message Board\ **Created:** [March 11, 2008, 4:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-do-you-link-to-a-post-within-a-thread/440984 "2008-03-11T16:40:27Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 6\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![HazelNutCoffee](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/ac91a4/32.png) [@HazelNutCoffee](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/HazelNutCoffee)\ **Post date:** [March 11, 2008, 4:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-do-you-link-to-a-post-within-a-thread/440984/1 "2008-03-11T16:40:27Z")
I know how to link to individual posts, but how do you fix the link so the post will show up within the thread, and not just by itself? ---
**Author:** ![Projammer](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/projammer/32/559_2.png) [@Projammer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Projammer)\ **Post date:** [March 11, 2008, 4:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-do-you-link-to-a-post-within-a-thread/440984/2 "2008-03-11T16:53:38Z")
I’m curious about this one too, but here’s how I get there. Assuming I’m reading your question correctly that you want a link to jump to a specific post in another thread while still displaying the whole thread, here’s how I get there. click on the message poster’s name and select find all threads by user. find the post in the resulting list and right-click on the link to it, select copy shortcut. create your post normally and include the link you copied earlier. The link will look similar to [http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?p=9560697#post9560697](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?p=9560697#post9560697) Personally I’m hoping someone will come along with an easier solution. ---
**Author:** ![HazelNutCoffee](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/ac91a4/32.png) [@HazelNutCoffee](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/HazelNutCoffee)\ **Post date:** [March 11, 2008, 5:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-do-you-link-to-a-post-within-a-thread/440984/3 "2008-03-11T17:02:05Z")
Yeah, I was just wondering if there was an easier way. There seems to be no rhyme nor reason to the numbers - I thought there would be some kind of set format, like the first few numbers would refer to the thread and the last would refer to the post #, but that doesn’t seem to be it. Huh. ---
**Author:** ![Hypnagogic\_Jerk](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/hypnagogic_jerk/32/4252_2.png) [@Hypnagogic\_Jerk](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hypnagogic_Jerk)\ **Post date:** [March 11, 2008, 5:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-do-you-link-to-a-post-within-a-thread/440984/4 "2008-03-11T17:39:05Z")
If you know the post number (which you can get when you hover on the number at the top right of the post), you can link to it simply by writing [post=\]some text[/post]. [post=9565841]This way[/post]. I believe the post numbers are assigned consecutively to posts, regardless of thread. ---
**Author:** ![HazelNutCoffee](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/ac91a4/32.png) [@HazelNutCoffee](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/HazelNutCoffee)\ **Post date:** [March 11, 2008, 9:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-do-you-link-to-a-post-within-a-thread/440984/5 "2008-03-11T21:10:13Z")
[post=9566028]Like this?[/post] ETA: Sweet. Thanks! ---
**Author:** ![Arnold\_Winkelried](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/3d9bf3/32.png) [@Arnold\_Winkelried](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Arnold_Winkelried)\ **Post date:** [March 12, 2008, 9:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-do-you-link-to-a-post-within-a-thread/440984/6 "2008-03-12T21:38:44Z")
There’s a [vBcode](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/misc.php?do=bbcode) link at the bottom of the page. If you click on it then you can read the help topic for vBcode, which includes, amongst other things, [Post Linking](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/misc.php?do=bbcode#post)