How to link in markdown from an inline code fragment?

Question

Is there a way to link form inside a code fragment in the Github markdown?

For example: `I want THIS to be a link` where THIS looks like THIS.

Answer 1

I guess it's not possible via markdown, but if the markdown interpreter accepts HTML code you can do: <code>I want <a href="...">THIS</a> to be a link</code>.

Here is how it looks (rendered): chromium-browser https://stackoverflow.com/

And, yes! Github allows HTML code in the markdown files. Here is a screen shot from a gist with the code above: