How can I prevent a www.example.com URL from becoming a hyperlink, without (ab)using another formatting feature such as inline code formatting? I notice I can quote: “ www.example.com ”, but I’d like to avoid that. Is it possible to somehow escape the auto-link change as I create/edit a post?

Backslashes? www\.example\.com www.example.com

[image] Mittineague: Backslashes? www\.example\.com www.example.com I noticed this solution does not work any longer. It was the first thing I tried before googling and finding this post. I’ll keep looking for a solution. Surprisingly, even www.example.com is converted into a hyperl…

Preformatted text has other meanings. I reject the premise in the first post, it reads like “how can I avoid hitting myself if I really like hitting myself?”

I just want to be able to type out a domain name as text (without formatting/styling) and have enough OCD not only go to length of using <span>.</span>, but also to spend time finding out why \. doesn’t work as expected and post about it. Fortunately, not everyone is cursed with my level of OCD. …

Zero width Unicode spacers would also work but anyone who copies and pastes that URL is in for a surprise.. and not the good kind! Dunno if @sam has any other ideas but the request is really odd.

Yeah bypassing linkify is not easy: https://github.com/markdown-it/markdown-it/blob/master/lib/rules_core/linkify.js and https://github.com/markdown-it/linkify-it We had a similar request with complaints about m.sc being autolinked. I do wonder if we should side with @Vitaly here and disable l…

Well, using ` does turn the text into a <code></code> section instead of <pre></pre> which is preformatted text. @notriddle Technically speaking there is a difference, but there really is no reason why <code></code> can’t be acceptable – URL’s are a form of “code” afterall.

[image] schungx: @notriddle Technically speaking there is a difference, but there really is no reason why <code></code> can’t be acceptable – URL’s are a form of “code” afterall. Well said. The few cases where it has come up for me are when I’m trying to point someone to one url instead of a…

The main purpose of our forum is talking about a company called Alarm.com so people write Alarm.com in posts all the time, probably in 50% or so of topics. We’re going to end up unintentionally linking to Alarm.com an awful lot. I tried disabling linkify all together but that causes a bigger proble…

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codinghorror (Jeff Atwood) January 7, 2018, 2:27am 4

Why in the world would you do any of that when you can simply use a proper code span with the ` key?

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