gHacks Technology News | Latest Tech News, Software And Tutorials » line breaks http://www.ghacks.net A technology news blog covering software, mobile phones, gadgets, security, the Internet and other relevant areas. Sat, 11 Feb 2012 17:32:23 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 Avoid Url Line Breaks in Emailshttp://www.ghacks.net/2007/08/20/avoid-url-line-breaks-in-emails/ http://www.ghacks.net/2007/08/20/avoid-url-line-breaks-in-emails/#comments Mon, 20 Aug 2007 11:57:43 +0000 Martin Brinkmann http://www.ghacks.net/2007/08/20/avoid-url-line-breaks-in-emails/ Don’t you hate it when someone sends you an email containing links or other email addresses that are so long that your email program uses several lines to display them ? This is apparently a matter of how the email client in question is handling urls and emails that are to long to be displayed in one line.

The real problem is of course that you can’t click the url to open it in your browser because it will display a not found message due to the missing parts.There is however a neat trick that can be used to display long urls and mails in emails correctly so that the recipient of the mail is able to open them even if it is displayed in more than one line.

If you enclose urls and mails with “<..>” you can avoid line breaks in most email clients that your recipient uses. So, instead of writing http://www.ghacks.net/ you would enclose it with <> which would like this:

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