Tek-Tips is the largest IT community on the Internet today!

Members share and learn making Tek-Tips Forums the best source of peer-reviewed technical information on the Internet!

Register Log in
  • Congratulations gkittelson on being selected by the Tek-Tips community for having the most helpful posts in the forums last week. Way to Go!

How Does One Make an E-mail Link Look Like it is Plain Text? 3

Status
Not open for further replies.
Chinyere

Chinyere

Programmer
Mar 9, 2001
79
US
Hello All,

I have a late day question. How does one make an e-mail link look like it is plain text?

I am using an HTML e-mail program that is pretty neat — it is pretty much just cut and paste. The only problem is that I would like to insert a hyperlink as part of the message. However, I don't want this link to look like a regular link (i.e., I would like for it to look like Plain Text with a line underneath it letting the user know that it is a link.

If I was coding in HTML, this would not be a big deal. However, since I am using Outlook in plain text, I need to make it look like plain text. I also tried the Insert Hyperlink option in Outlook and it gives me the look. What is a wrrl to do? Does anyone out there have any answers?

Thank you,
Chinyere :->
 
Sort by date Sort by votes
Is not posible to do it with HTML default objects if that is what u want, At least what I now, Try With flash or any other tecnology it would be easier
 
Upvote 0 Downvote
<body>

<p><a href=&quot;mailto:rrrr_@Chinyere .com&quot;>Chinyere </a></p>

</body>
 
Upvote 0 Downvote
You could try using Styles.... it looks something like this:
<head>
<STYLE TYPE=&quot;text/css&quot;>
<!--
a:active { font-family: verdana; text-decoration: none; color: #00399c}
a:link { font-family: verdana; text-decoration: none; color: #00399c}
a:visited { font-family: verdana; text-decoration: none; color: #00399c}
a:hover { font-family: verdana; text-decoration: underline; color: #00399c}
-->
</STYLE>
</head>

After you place this in your code, every link in you page will change and have those properties you specify in the STYLE tag
 
Upvote 0 Downvote
Thank you so much guys for your quick help! I really appreciate it!

However, I feel that I have to reframe my question. I guess that my question is: if I am sending an e-mail from Outlook, how do I create a link that does not have the before it? I just want the link to read like any other word in the message but it should be clickable. For example, I want the two words, &quot;Read More&quot; to be clickable and direct my readers to an article on the web. How do I do this? Outlook only lets you add in a hyperlink that has the &quot; look.

Thanks again,
Chinyere :-D
 
Upvote 0 Downvote
Outlook also supports HTML type e-mails... so you could create an e-mail as a HTML (you could use MSWORD as your e-mail editor)

:)
 
Upvote 0 Downvote
NiteCrawlr that was very quick! I will try your suggesstion right now. Thank you!

Chinyere
 
Upvote 0 Downvote
NiteCrawlr,

It worked! It worked! Thank you so very, very much! I just did the editing in Word then simply did a cut and paste. I never thought about this. Thanks again and you have my vote as Tipmaster of the week.

Chinyere LOL

PS Thanks also to all the others who responded. This is a great forum where everyone is so helpful.
 
Upvote 0 Downvote
Status
Not open for further replies.

Similar threads

lmcate
  • Locked
  • Question
From HTML Page open an MDB files on the server and work
Replies
0
Views
171
lmcate
lmcate
cae154
  • Locked
  • Question
Body of email not appearing in correct font on iPhone and iPad
Replies
1
Views
710
spamjim
spamjim
SitesMasstec
  • Locked
  • Question
How to have an HTML opened automatically in an e-mail
Replies
3
Views
161
spamjim
spamjim
Mike Lewis
  • Locked
  • Question
How to refresh a Javascript file in the browser's cache?
Replies
4
Views
1K
Mike Lewis
Mike Lewis
bdwilcox
  • Locked
  • Question
More efficient / manageable way to code this HTA w/ VBScript?
Replies
0
Views
644
bdwilcox
bdwilcox

Part and Inventory Search

Sponsor

Back
Top