Help a HTML noob

[[violet]]

My apologies if this is the wrong place to ask. Basically I want to ask how, if it is possible, to hyperlink to a specific post in a thread. Specifically, I'm looking to put a link to my Senator character's profile post from the Forum 7 Senate Game Yellow Pages thread into my sig.

[Kaboomlandia]

My apologies if this is the wrong place to ask. Basically I want to ask how, if it is possible, to hyperlink to a specific post in a thread. Specifically, I'm looking to put a link to my Senator character's profile post from the Forum 7 Senate Game Yellow Pages thread into my sig.

Click on that little piece of paper icon on the top left corner of your post. That links directly to whatever post you clicked.

[Swith Witherward]

My apologies if this is the wrong place to ask. Basically I want to ask how, if it is possible, to hyperlink to a specific post in a thread. Specifically, I'm looking to put a link to my Senator character's profile post from the Forum 7 Senate Game Yellow Pages thread into my sig.

Hi Nulla.

Kaboom's right. To get the link, look for this small icon to the left of your name and post time:

by Nulla Bellum » Mon Jul 24, 2017 2:30 am

Right clicking the icon brings up a dropdown menu. Copy link location. However, you can format it a variety of ways.

1. Any NS link will become active simply by pasting it:
   

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   https://forum.nationstates.net/viewtopic.php?p=32201877#p32201877

   
   viewtopic.php?p=32201877#p32201877
   
   
   
2. You can also paste it between the URL code tags:
   

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   [url]https://forum.nationstates.net/viewtopic.php?p=32201877#p32201877[/url]

   
   https://forum.nationstates.net/viewtopic.php?p=32201877#p32201877
   
   
   
3. You can paste it within the url code tags, then paste a word or phrase between the tags
   

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   [url=https://forum.nationstates.net/viewtopic.php?p=32201877#p32201877]Nulla's Post in Moderation[/url]

   
   Nulla's Post in Moderation
   
   Notice in this example that I have to use url= .
   
   
   
4. The final method works for any post found on NS. It's the "post" code. Take a moment to look at the link. At the very end is #p32201877. That's your post number. To use the code, you'll need just the post number, minus the "p".
   

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   [post=32201877]Nulla's Post[/post]

   
   Nulla's Post

Option 4 is fantastic for sigs as it cuts down on the amount of characters used, meaning you can have more content in your sig.


Edit: You can also ask for sig advice in Reppy's Sig Workshop - A guide to building forum sigs.

[Nulla Bellum]

Thanks all. I never noticed the tiny copy icon on my phone's tiny screen lol