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**Category:** About This Message Board\
**Created:** [July 23, 2004, 12:48am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/test-is-this-i-italic-i/256440 "2004-07-23T00:48:33Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 10\
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**Author:**  [@ultrafilter](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ultrafilter)\
**Post date:** [July 23, 2004, 12:48am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/test-is-this-i-italic-i/256440/1 "2004-07-23T00:48:33Z")
We know that vB tags don’t work in thread titles. What about HTML?
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**Author:**  [@Lobsang](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lobsang)\
**Post date:** [July 23, 2004, 9:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/test-is-this-i-italic-i/256440/2 "2004-07-23T21:15:33Z")
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**Author:**  [@Lobsang](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lobsang)\
**Post date:** [July 23, 2004, 9:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/test-is-this-i-italic-i/256440/3 "2004-07-23T21:20:54Z")
Hey that looks a bit like a window.
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wibbleelbbiw
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**Author:**  [@EddyTeddyFreddy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/EddyTeddyFreddy)\
**Post date:** [July 24, 2004, 4:23am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/test-is-this-i-italic-i/256440/4 "2004-07-24T04:23:58Z")
Move along, [nothing to see](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=268010#20)
[Nothing at all.](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showpost.php?p=5099104&postcount=20)
[Clear the road, please.](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showpost.php?p=5099104#5099104)
Okay, I now can do “Show single post”. How do I do the linkety-link to a particular post while retaining the thread in which it’s embedded?
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**Author:**  [@milquetoast](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/milquetoast)\
**Post date:** [July 24, 2004, 12:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/test-is-this-i-italic-i/256440/5 "2004-07-24T12:39:48Z")
> [@EddyTeddyFreddy](#):
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> Okay, I now can do “Show single post”. How do I do the linkety-link to a particular post while retaining the thread in which it’s embedded?
I don’t know a direct answer to your question, but I do know that with single posts, like your last two links, the thread title is displayed in the upper right-hand corner. Click on the thread title, and it takes you to the whole thread, conveniently starting with the OP.
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**Author:**  [@rowrrbazzle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/rowrrbazzle)\
**Post date:** [July 24, 2004, 7:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/test-is-this-i-italic-i/256440/6 "2004-07-24T19:04:42Z")
Get the post number x from the quote or single-post url and do this:
[post=x]your comment here[/post]
example:
[post=5099238]EddyTeddyFreddy’s post[/post]
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**Author:**  [@rowrrbazzle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/rowrrbazzle)\
**Post date:** [July 24, 2004, 7:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/test-is-this-i-italic-i/256440/7 "2004-07-24T19:17:34Z")
Forgot a couple of things.
How to get the post number: hover over the reply or single-quote button and either 1) read it from the url displayed at the bottom of the browser window, or 2) right-click and select “copy shortcut”, then paste the url somewhere and extract the post number.
The “post=” code became available with the version of vB we now have. More info via the vB FAQ link at the bottom of the page.
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**Author:**  [@EddyTeddyFreddy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/EddyTeddyFreddy)\
**Post date:** [July 24, 2004, 8:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/test-is-this-i-italic-i/256440/8 "2004-07-24T20:07:39Z")
Lemme see…
We’ll try the [neat “copy shortcut” method](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/newreply.php?do=newreply&p=5100432).
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**Author:**  [@EddyTeddyFreddy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/EddyTeddyFreddy)\
**Post date:** [July 24, 2004, 8:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/test-is-this-i-italic-i/256440/9 "2004-07-24T20:34:13Z")
Hmmmmmm… copying the URL right out of the “copy shortcut” thingie produced a reply page. Let’s try that again:
[Right-click copy shortcut from **rowrrbazzle’s** link to my post](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?p=5099238#post5099238)
[[post=5100432]Okay, try it again[/post]](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showpost.php?p=5100432)
It works! 🆒 What I did was get the post URL by right-clicking the post number and using copy shortcut, then backspacing out the &postcount=8 part. It was no sweat then to close bracket, open bracket, type post= and copy/paste in the 7-digit post number, sitting right there before me in the URL. Thanks so much. 😃
Hmmm… one last experiment: Let’s take what I got by clicking and copying the URL from the URL bar itself, to wit:
http: [//boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?p=5100432#post5100432](https://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?p=5100432#post5100432)
Now, if I were to simply pop in a close bracket after the first appearance of the post number… then add an open bracket, delete the #, and put = between “post” and the repeat of the number, then close bracket… the put [/post] before [/url]…
[[post=5100432]Will this work?[/post]](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?p=5100432)
By George, I think I’ve got it! 😃😃😃
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**Author:**  [@The\_Flying\_Dutchman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/The_Flying_Dutchman)\
**Post date:** [July 26, 2004, 1:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/test-is-this-i-italic-i/256440/10 "2004-07-26T13:02:03Z")
just ignore me