# Links in an email

**URL:** https://forum.kirupa.com/t/links-in-an-email/189144
**Category:** Uncategorized
**Created:** [May 14, 2006, 7:26am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/links-in-an-email/189144 "2006-05-14T07:26:12Z")
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### Author: ![SmoothDime](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/6de8d8/32.png) [@SmoothDime](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/SmoothDime)
#### Post date: [May 14, 2006, 7:26am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/links-in-an-email/189144/1 "2006-05-14T07:26:12Z")

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how can i make text links show correctly in an email. ie, i just want to have one word be the link, i don’t want the whole friggin url to be visible.

thanks

i tried:

\<a href= " blah "\> words \< /a \>

but it didn’t work.