# How to format the contact\_url on /about **URL:** \ **Category:** Support\ **Created:** [11 Settembre 2015, 1:21am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/how-to-format-the-contact-url-on-about/33108 "2015-09-11T01:21:17Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 1\ **Showing post:** 1
**Author:** ![johnmuhl](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/johnmuhl/32/43413_2.png) [@johnmuhl](https://meta.discourse.org/u/johnmuhl)\ **Post date:** [11 Settembre 2015, 1:21am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/how-to-format-the-contact-url-on-about/33108/1 "2015-09-11T01:21:17Z")
[Here on meta](https://meta.discourse.org/about) the about page has (note how the email address is plain text): > Contact Us > > In the event of a critical issue or urgent matter affecting this site, please > contact us at [team@discourse.org](mailto:team@discourse.org). I’d like to have a similar message where the `contact_url` is an email address but when I try this on my instance I get: > Contact Us > > In the event of a critical issue or urgent matter affecting this site, please > contact us at [team@discourse.org](https://meta.discourse.org/team@discourse.org). i.e. the email address becomes a bogus link to `domain.tld/test@example.com`. If I put `mailto:test@example.com` I get a proper email link but the link text is literally `mailto:test@example.com` instead of just `test@example.com`. How can I get my about page to be like meta where the email is plain text or even better would be how to get a proper email link without the `mailto:` part being part of the link text. --- _[View the full topic](https://meta.discourse.org/t/how-to-format-the-contact-url-on-about/33108)._