# \[url="http://www.google.com/"\]Link in subject line\[/url\]

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/url-http-www-google-com-link-in-subject-line-url/87286>\
**Category:** About This Message Board\
**Created:** [October 13, 2001, 7:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/url-http-www-google-com-link-in-subject-line-url/87286 "2001-10-13T19:17:49Z")\
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**Author:** ![therealblaze](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/a9adbd/32.png) [@therealblaze](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/therealblaze)\
**Post date:** [October 13, 2001, 7:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/url-http-www-google-com-link-in-subject-line-url/87286/1 "2001-10-13T19:17:49Z")

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I got curious, hope I don’t die…  
Probably won’t work though…

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**Author:** ![Ringo](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/779978/32.png) [@Ringo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ringo)\
**Post date:** [October 13, 2001, 7:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/url-http-www-google-com-link-in-subject-line-url/87286/2 "2001-10-13T19:32:41Z")

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Nope, vB code doesn’t work in the subject line.

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**Author:** ![cornflakes](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/9d8465/32.png) [@cornflakes](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/cornflakes)\
**Post date:** [October 15, 2001, 10:53am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/url-http-www-google-com-link-in-subject-line-url/87286/3 "2001-10-15T10:53:01Z")

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None of the coding works in the subject line.

Unless you want to consider deleting everything after a quotes if you preview as a “feature”. 🙂

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**Author:** ![Crusoe](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/49beb7/32.png) [@Crusoe](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Crusoe)\
**Post date:** [October 15, 2001, 11:01am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/url-http-www-google-com-link-in-subject-line-url/87286/4 "2001-10-15T11:01:33Z")

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Even if vB code worked in the subject line, I doubt URLs would be allowed. What would happen if you clicked the thread title? Go to the thread, or to the linked site?