# Magic Markdown tag for links to tags
**URL:** https://meta.discourse.org/t/magic-markdown-tag-for-links-to-tags/37852
**Category:** Feature
**Tags:** completed
**Created:** [12. Januar 2016 um 20:39 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/magic-markdown-tag-for-links-to-tags/37852 "2016-01-12T20:39:51Z")
**Posts on this page:** 5
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### Author:  [@pfaffman](https://meta.discourse.org/u/pfaffman)
#### Post date: [12. Januar 2016 um 20:39 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/magic-markdown-tag-for-links-to-tags/37852/1 "2016-01-12T20:39:52Z")
In the editor typing @ or # offers completion to link to users and categories, respectively.
Stackexchange offers a [tag:tag-name] tag to link to messages of a tag. I cannot seem to find such functionality here. Am I missing something?
If I’m not missing something, here’s how I’d use it. I’m using Discourse to run online classes and have people add tags to their solutions to the assignments/challenges I give them. It would be handy to have an easy way to create a link to all of the topics with a given tag. (And it would save, maybe a dozen keystrokes each time I add such a link! 😃).
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### Author:  [@codinghorror](https://meta.discourse.org/u/codinghorror)
#### Post date: [12. Januar 2016 um 21:54 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/magic-markdown-tag-for-links-to-tags/37852/2 "2016-01-12T21:54:50Z")
Sure it is on @tgxworld’s list to see if we can get tags to complete, however, there can be name conflicts between tags and categories.
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### Author:  [@pfaffman](https://meta.discourse.org/u/pfaffman)
#### Post date: [12. Januar 2016 um 23:05 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/magic-markdown-tag-for-links-to-tags/37852/3 "2016-01-12T23:05:41Z")
Right. Overloading the # tag for both tags and categories seems like a bad idea because of those conflicts. Maybe % or $ as a tag symbol? Or the stackexchange [tag:tag-name] seems like a good-enough solution.
Thanks.
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### Author:  [@codinghorror](https://meta.discourse.org/u/codinghorror)
#### Post date: [12. Januar 2016 um 23:13 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/magic-markdown-tag-for-links-to-tags/37852/4 "2016-01-12T23:13:48Z")
I think categories and tags should have roughly the same namespace for the same reasons that groups and users do. They are closely related.
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### Author:  [@chapoi](https://meta.discourse.org/u/chapoi)
#### Post date: [4. Dezember 2025 um 14:50 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/magic-markdown-tag-for-links-to-tags/37852/5 "2025-12-04T14:50:59Z")