Stop mail clients auto linking text as URLs
A simple tip using invisible zero-width spaces
This is just a quickie – a reminder for my own reference, but could also be useful to others.
I’m building a shop, and the email confirmations include the line:
Your credit card statement will show a payment to "MYDOMAIN.COM".
Which is fine, except that many mail clients (e.g. Apple Mail) will take MYDOMAIN.COM and link it as a URL – which I don’t want.
To avoid this, simply add a zero width space into the URL – for instance:
Your credit card statement will show a payment to "MYDOMAIN​.COM".
(That’s the HTML version. If you’re generating a plain text alternative (using CFML, of course), you’ll want to use #Chr(8203)#).
The text will now look identical – except it will not be linked by the mail client.