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Lesser Known Features of DEV — Embedding Call To Action (CTA) Buttons

Michael Tharrington on May 25, 2023

Did you realize that on DEV you have the ability to embed a call-to-action button? For example, it looks like this: Learn about Community Moderati...
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Anthony Max

Ty

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Erin Bensinger

Love this feature! Thanks for pointing it out 😁

I'm going to give it a try... ahem

Once you're ready to incorporate these lesser-known features into an amazing post on DEV, check out the Best Practices for Writing on DEV series to sharpen your technical writing skills!

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How did I do?!

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Michael Tharrington

Woot! You're most welcome. And ya did well. 🙌

Also, such a great series to point out!

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Dennis Persson

Sometimes is suitable with a button

Check out #jokes tag

And sometimes it's better with embedding the page as is

#jokes

plz post the lols

Which do you prefer?

Personally I prefer the cta button!

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Basti Ortiz

Hmm... #todayilearned 🤯

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Aatmaj

Love this feature! Thanks for this blog😍

Lets try it out 😉

Follow me on Github!

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Michael Tharrington

Awww yeah, happy to help! And perfect usage. 🙌

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Jyothikrishna

Eagerly waiting for the fourth part

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DJ Johnson

Is there a way to get a CTA to look like any other link?

I'm trying to link to a non http url (example://this_is_a_valid_url), but it gets converted to (example//this_is_a_valid_url) which does not take me where I want to go, I can use a CTA but its rather larger, Suggestions?