# Posting Links

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/posting-links/480367>\
**Category:** About This Message Board\
**Created:** [January 8, 2009, 1:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/posting-links/480367 "2009-01-08T13:29:55Z")\
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**Author:** ![fortytwo](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/f9ae1b/32.png) [@fortytwo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/fortytwo)\
**Post date:** [January 8, 2009, 1:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/posting-links/480367/1 "2009-01-08T13:29:55Z")

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I’m probably going to be really embarrassed about the answer to this question but I’ve just noticed I can’t get any of those shortcut thingies e.g. links, bolding, underline smilies etc to work when I reply to a post.

I’m using Firefox and Ubuntu if that’s relevant and I’m sure in the past it all worked for me.

So can someone put me right please?