[Capture] on my forum, when people click the email they are redirected to the following link: https:// forum.theprojectvanlife .com/contact@theprojectvanlife.com How do I prevent that from happening?

Actually turns out you can do this in contact url: <a href="mailto:myname@example.com">myname@example.com</a> This hides the ugly mailto :slight_smile: That last rolo is mine, now, right? :wink:

Enter the correct value in site settings, you have something there that is invalid at the moment.

[Capture] How is that incorrect?

No I cannot. @Sami_Syed is it possible the text content was modified? What is the value in /admin/customize/site_texts/js.about.contact_info?

In order for this to become a hyperlink that launches an email client you need to set contact url to mailto:myname@example.com

In my test on try contact url has higher priority. If both are set the URL appears as expected. If only URL is set, a hyperlink appears. If only email is set the email appears as plain text. @merefield is correct about how to make email a link.

This is what it looks like In the event of a critical issue or urgent matter affecting this site, please contact us at %{contact_info}. [image] supermathie: Check your contact url site setting as well. I already did that and posted a pic of it up top ^ [image] merefield: In order for…

[image] Sami_Syed: I already did that and posted a pic of it up top Note that’s contact email, not contact url. [image] merefield: Actually turns out you can do this in contact url :heart:!

[image] merefield: mailto: like there is a ‘mailto:’ tag is there something like a ‘redirect’ tag? So that I can send users to my contact page when they click the email

Remove contact email hyperlink/url

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supermathie (Michael Brown) June 5, 2018, 8:07pm 7

Check your contact url site setting as well.

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Remove contact email hyperlink/url

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