Keep Gmail from creating a link from URL

#1 October 23rd, 2008, 05:05 PM

Hello,

My work involves creating HTML emails for marketing. Recently I've
noticed that whenever I write a url on the body of an HTML email
without linking it (e.g., mycompany.org), Gmail creates a link out of
it anyway. Is there a way to prevent that?

Thanks!

#2 October 25th, 2008, 12:35 AM

Luis wrote:

Quote:

Hello,
>
My work involves creating HTML emails for marketing. Recently I've
noticed that whenever I write a url on the body of an HTML email
without linking it (e.g., mycompany.org), Gmail creates a link out of
it anyway. Is there a way to prevent that?
>
Thanks!

It's a convenience that Gmail--like many mail clients--provides to its
users. You can't prevent it, and why would you want to?

#3 October 25th, 2008, 08:25 AM

On Saturday 25 October 2008 01:54, Stefan Ram wrote:

Quote:

(When you give a URI as text instead of as a link, you might not
want the administrator of the page to get a referrer to your
text or you might want to avoid certain legal implications of
a link. You might just want to mention a URI of a bad or
dangerous neighborhood, but want to protect your readers from
carelessly dereferencing it.)

What I usually do is put some whitespace in the URI, like "valdyas . org",
or in extreme cases spell out "at" and "dot".

Irina

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