One way to create elegant hyperlinks in Mail.app

Mar 23, '07 07:30:00AM

Contributed by: Anonymous

Hyperlinks in emails come in two flavours - a) short, informative and to the point, or b) ugly. Here's an easy way to get around Mail.app's apparently-limited functionality for inserting hyperlinks in your mail.

  1. Choose Add Hyperlink from Mail's Edit menu and type or paste a typical ugly URL:

    http://www.link-to/long/and/ugly/item/to-link-to.html

    It appears in the email exactly as above, then turns into an underlined hyperlink when you press Space at the end. Ugly.
  2. Place the cursor after the first letter in the hyperlink and type what you'd like the link to say in the email, for example:

    hClick Herettp://www.link-to/long/and/ugly/item/to-link-to.html

  3. Now delete the surrounding original verbose text, and you're left with an elegant Click Here link that, when clicked, takes your web browser to the now-hidden URL.
A small amount of work for a better presentation!

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