# how does one add links to a thread?

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-does-one-add-links-to-a-thread/87458>\
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**Created:** [October 15, 2001, 6:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-does-one-add-links-to-a-thread/87458 "2001-10-15T06:14:08Z")\
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**Author:** ![Forbin](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/5e9695/32.png) [@Forbin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Forbin)\
**Post date:** [October 15, 2001, 6:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-does-one-add-links-to-a-thread/87458/1 "2001-10-15T06:14:08Z")

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How do my fellow dopers add the links?  
I have cut/pasted url’s with no sucess.  
I apologize in advance if this is a duplicate thread,but a search failed to yield any results.  
😕

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**Author:** ![hawthorne](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/c89c15/32.png) [@hawthorne](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/hawthorne)\
**Post date:** [October 15, 2001, 6:21am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-does-one-add-links-to-a-thread/87458/2 "2001-10-15T06:21:49Z")

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You can always click the “quote” button under someone’s post to see how they did what they did. Also there is a link to vB code in every reply window which will tell you how to do most things. I can link to that by typing:

[u\*\*\*\*rl=“[http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/index.php?action=bbcode](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/index.php?action=bbcode)”]vB code[/u\*\*\*\*rl] to get [vB code](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/index.php?action=bbcode)

or simply typing:

w\*\*\*\*[ww.straightdope.com](http://ww.straightdope.com) to get [http://www.straightdope.com](http://www.straightdope.com)

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**Author:** ![don\_t\_ask](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/e68b1a/32.png) [@don\_t\_ask](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/don_t_ask)\
**Post date:** [October 15, 2001, 6:47am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-does-one-add-links-to-a-thread/87458/3 "2001-10-15T06:47:08Z")

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> [@](#):
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> \*Originally posted by hawthorne \*  
> \*\*or simply typing:
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> w\*\*\*\*[ww.straightdope.com](http://ww.straightdope.com) to get [http://www.straightdope.com](http://www.straightdope.com) \*\*

But only if **Automatically parse URLs:** is ticked in options.

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**Author:** ![Hombre](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/ecb155/32.png) [@Hombre](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hombre)\
**Post date:** [October 15, 2001, 9:31am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-does-one-add-links-to-a-thread/87458/4 "2001-10-15T09:31:20Z")

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I’ve posted linking info (from past threads), as well as other helpful coding info in this [thread](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?threadid=91699).

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**Author:** ![Tony\_Montana](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/278dde/32.png) [@Tony\_Montana](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tony_Montana)\
**Post date:** [October 16, 2001, 6:16am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-does-one-add-links-to-a-thread/87458/5 "2001-10-16T06:16:59Z")

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learning this myself test

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**Author:** ![Tony\_Montana](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/278dde/32.png) [@Tony\_Montana](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tony_Montana)\
**Post date:** [October 16, 2001, 6:31am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-does-one-add-links-to-a-thread/87458/6 "2001-10-16T06:31:55Z")

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uhh _that_ didn’t work. test

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**Author:** ![Tony\_Montana](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/278dde/32.png) [@Tony\_Montana](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tony_Montana)\
**Post date:** [October 16, 2001, 7:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-does-one-add-links-to-a-thread/87458/7 "2001-10-16T19:42:40Z")

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man-o-man my links aren’t working. [test](http://www.linkupalaska.com)

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**Author:** ![Tony\_Montana](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/278dde/32.png) [@Tony\_Montana](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tony_Montana)\
**Post date:** [October 16, 2001, 7:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-does-one-add-links-to-a-thread/87458/8 "2001-10-16T19:49:04Z")

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> [@](#):
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> \*Originally posted by Tony Montana \*  
> \*\* man-o-man my links aren’t working. [test](http://www.linkupalaska.com) \*\*

hey it works! halleluja! i think i’ll celebrate this one by myself thanks…