# Linking to past threads **URL:** \ **Category:** About This Message Board\ **Created:** [February 10, 2007, 11:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/linking-to-past-threads/391676 "2007-02-10T23:47:17Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 12\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![CBEscapee](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/b19c9b/32.png) [@CBEscapee](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CBEscapee)\ **Post date:** [February 10, 2007, 11:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/linking-to-past-threads/391676/1 "2007-02-10T23:47:17Z")
I hope I’m in the proper forum. How can I link to a specific post in another thread? ---
**Author:** ![Colibri](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/colibri/32/1841_2.png) [@Colibri](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Colibri)\ **Post date:** [February 10, 2007, 11:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/linking-to-past-threads/391676/2 "2007-02-10T23:51:06Z")
Click on the small number (#) in the upper right hand corner of the post. That will give you the URL of the post and you can just link to it. ---
**Author:** ![CBEscapee](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/b19c9b/32.png) [@CBEscapee](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CBEscapee)\ **Post date:** [February 11, 2007, 12:04am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/linking-to-past-threads/391676/3 "2007-02-11T00:04:16Z")
Thank you. ---
**Author:** ![xash](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/x/c6cbf5/32.png) [@xash](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/xash)\ **Post date:** [February 11, 2007, 10:44am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/linking-to-past-threads/391676/4 "2007-02-11T10:44:42Z")
Moved to ATMB. - **xash** General Questions Moderator ---
**Author:** ![Canadjun](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/76d3ee/32.png) [@Canadjun](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Canadjun)\ **Post date:** [February 11, 2007, 12:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/linking-to-past-threads/391676/5 "2007-02-11T12:54:30Z")
[QUOTE=Colibri] Click on the small number (#) in the upper right hand corner of the post. That will give you the URL of the post and you can just link to it. [/QUOTE] Cool. I’ve wondered that in the past as well. ---
**Author:** ![What\_Exit](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/what_exit/32/10652_2.png) [@What\_Exit](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/What_Exit)\ **Post date:** [February 11, 2007, 2:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/linking-to-past-threads/391676/6 "2007-02-11T14:46:12Z")
Possibly even better is the ability to link to the specific post within the thread display. What **Colibri** posted above yields this link [http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showpost.php?p=8246728&postcount=2](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showpost.php?p=8246728&postcount=2) displaying a single post. If you now replace the ‘post’ in the link with ‘thread’ you get: [http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?p=8246728&postcount=2](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?p=8246728&postcount=2) which takes you to the full thread but the specific post. As a cleanup you can also remove the &postcount=2 and get just [http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?p=8246728](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?p=8246728). One more note, on the single post views, in the upper right hand corner is the link back to the full thread after the word Thread. Jim ---
**Author:** ![DSYoungEsq](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/c6cbf5/32.png) [@DSYoungEsq](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DSYoungEsq)\ **Post date:** [February 11, 2007, 4:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/linking-to-past-threads/391676/7 "2007-02-11T16:03:56Z")
[QUOTE=What Exit?] Possibly even better is the ability to link to the specific post within the thread display. What **Colibri** posted above yields this link [http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showpost.php?p=8246728&postcount=2](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showpost.php?p=8246728&postcount=2) displaying a single post. If you now replace the ‘post’ in the link with ‘thread’ you get: [http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?p=8246728&postcount=2](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?p=8246728&postcount=2) which takes you to the full thread but the specific post. As a cleanup you can also remove the &postcount=2 and get just [http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?p=8246728](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?p=8246728). One more note, on the single post views, in the upper right hand corner is the link back to the full thread after the word Thread. Jim [/QUOTE] Those instructions are a bit difficult to follow because of the shortening of the full urls with elipses. I’d do it again, spelling out the modifications, perhaps bolding where they can be made, and making sure that the links are not being shortened. 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![According\_to\_Pliny](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/8e7dd6/32.png) [@According\_to\_Pliny](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/According_to_Pliny)\ **Post date:** [February 11, 2007, 4:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/linking-to-past-threads/391676/8 "2007-02-11T16:05:14Z")
Methinks they have overthunk this feature. ---
**Author:** ![According\_to\_Pliny](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/8e7dd6/32.png) [@According\_to\_Pliny](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/According_to_Pliny)\ **Post date:** [February 11, 2007, 4:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/linking-to-past-threads/391676/9 "2007-02-11T16:20:08Z")
[QUOTE=What Exit?] Possibly even better is the ability to link to the specific post within the thread display. What **Colibri** posted above yields this link ht\*\*\*\*\*\*tp://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showpost.php?p=8246728&postcount=2 displaying a single post. If you now replace the ‘post’ in the link with ‘thread’ you get: ht**tp://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?p=8246728&postcount=2 which takes you to the full thread but the specific post. As a cleanup you can also remove the &postcount=2 and get just ht**tp://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?p=8246728. One more note, on the single post views, in the upper right hand corner is the link back to the full thread after the word Thread. Jim [/QUOTE] How’s this. The trick to showing the whole link is to 1) uncheck the Automatically parse links box 2) remove any bits already added, and 3) put [i[sub]**[/sub]**][[sub]**[/sub]**/i] between the t’s in http ---
**Author:** ![According\_to\_Pliny](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/8e7dd6/32.png) [@According\_to\_Pliny](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/According_to_Pliny)\ **Post date:** [February 11, 2007, 4:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/linking-to-past-threads/391676/10 "2007-02-11T16:25:38Z")
Just realized there are two easier ways to show a long link. Just unchecking the Automatically parse links box gives you this: [http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?p=8246728](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?p=8246728). But you can also revel a link and still keep it active by clicking on the link icon and using the link as both the caption for the link and the url itself. [http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?p=8246728.](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?p=8246728.) ---
**Author:** ![rowrrbazzle](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/rowrrbazzle/32/414_2.png) [@rowrrbazzle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/rowrrbazzle)\ **Post date:** [February 11, 2007, 9:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/linking-to-past-threads/391676/11 "2007-02-11T21:27:15Z")
There’s a small malfunction that shows up in Firefox when you change “showpost” to “showthread” (without “postcount”). The first line of that post shows up at the bottom of the browser window rather than the top. However, it is still very useful because it takes you to the correct page in a multi-page thread. The documented method to position to a post on a page (which works in every browser) is this: [\*\*\*\*post=8246728]The above post[/post] result: [post=8246728]The above post[/post] ---
**Author:** ![What\_Exit](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/what_exit/32/10652_2.png) [@What\_Exit](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/What_Exit)\ **Post date:** [February 11, 2007, 10:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/linking-to-past-threads/391676/12 "2007-02-11T22:51:39Z")
Thank you for cleaning that up\*\* According to Pliny\*\* and **DSYoungEsq**. It looked right in the Preview and I failed to take a close look at it after the submit. Jim