I am new here, while answering other people's questions, I can't insert any hyperlink.
How can I do so?
I am new here, while answering other people's questions, I can't insert any hyperlink.
How can I do so?
All of this information and more is included in the formatting guide in the help center. You can find it here.
Look carefully at your answer window.
Can you spot the hyperlink button?
Click on it. The following window appears.
In the field marked with red arrow you add your website address.
Click on AddLink
Enter description
Note that your description is also shown under Answers window with an underline.
That underline denotes that the hyperlink has been created.
If the link is clicked, the targeted web page opens.
Shortcut -
Press:
Ctrl + L
to directly open the Insert Hyperlink window.
You can also include links in comments, like this:
To insert hyperlinks like that in comments, you write
[text to display](link to website)
Important: there must be no space between ] and (.
The example above was written like this:
Welcome to Pets! Please take a minute to take the
[tour](https://pets.stackexchange.com/tour) and have a look at the
[help center](https://pets.stackexchange.com/help).
To take it one step further, there are shortcuts for certain links like [help] [tour] [ask] [answer]
A complete list can be found here.
That shortens the above example to:
Welcome to Pets! Please take a minute to take the
[tour] and have a look at the [help].