# How to show generic email address without it becoming a hyperlink?

**URL:** <https://talk.commonmark.org/t/how-to-show-generic-email-address-without-it-becoming-a-hyperlink/3956>\
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**Created:** [August 31, 2021, 4:21pm UTC](https://talk.commonmark.org/t/how-to-show-generic-email-address-without-it-becoming-a-hyperlink/3956 "2021-08-31T16:21:04Z")\
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**Author:** ![dominickmurphy](https://cdn.commonmark.org/user_avatar/talk.commonmark.org/dominickmurphy/32/1808_2.png) [@dominickmurphy](https://talk.commonmark.org/u/dominickmurphy)\
**Post date:** [August 31, 2021, 4:21pm UTC](https://talk.commonmark.org/t/how-to-show-generic-email-address-without-it-becoming-a-hyperlink/3956/1 "2021-08-31T16:21:04Z")

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What is the MarkDown language for using a generic email address for a set of instructions without the email address becoming a hyperlink?

For example … blah blah blah… Step 2 type in your email address (example: [yourname@yourcompany.com](mailto:yourname@yourcompany.com)) Step 3 blah blah blah

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**Author:** ![jgm](https://cdn.commonmark.org/user_avatar/talk.commonmark.org/jgm/32/1360_2.png) [@jgm](https://talk.commonmark.org/u/jgm)\
**Post date:** [August 31, 2021, 4:58pm UTC](https://talk.commonmark.org/t/how-to-show-generic-email-address-without-it-becoming-a-hyperlink/3956/2 "2021-08-31T16:58:52Z")

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Pandoc’s default markdown won’t hyperlink a bare email address. It will only be hyperlinked if you write it between \<…\>.

gfm will hyperlink it automatically.

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**Author:** ![jgm](https://cdn.commonmark.org/user_avatar/talk.commonmark.org/jgm/32/1360_2.png) [@jgm](https://talk.commonmark.org/u/jgm)\
**Post date:** [August 31, 2021, 5:00pm UTC](https://talk.commonmark.org/t/how-to-show-generic-email-address-without-it-becoming-a-hyperlink/3956/3 "2021-08-31T17:00:41Z")

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Sorry, I forgot that this is the commonmark forum, not pandoc. Commonmark only hyperlinks emails if they come between angle brackets. But some extensions/adaptations of commonmark postprocess the output to add such links.

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**Author:** ![aidanhorn](https://cdn.commonmark.org/user_avatar/talk.commonmark.org/aidanhorn/32/2822_2.png) [@aidanhorn](https://talk.commonmark.org/u/aidanhorn)\
**Post date:** [November 17, 2023, 11:19am UTC](https://talk.commonmark.org/t/how-to-show-generic-email-address-without-it-becoming-a-hyperlink/3956/5 "2023-11-17T11:19:10Z")

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You can use `&#64;` instead of `@`.