How to suppress DNS name auto-linking

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  gholms · Member · Jul 9, 2013 at 7:34 am

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  It seems that when I type something that looks like a website’s DNS name, such as www.example.com, in a post it gets prepended with http:// and converted to a clickable link. I don’t want either of those to happen in a portion of a post I’m working on. How do I suppress it for a specific piece of text?

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  tandava108 · Member · Jul 9, 2013 at 8:19 am

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  I think that’s new behaviour, and a bit annoying. After some playing I see that the expansion does not happen in preformatted sections (select preformatted in the style drop down.

  Alternatively you can go into the “text” pain and add a comment after the first dot, so

  http://www.<!– –>xxx.com

  looks like http://www.xxx.com

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  tandava108 · Member · Jul 9, 2013 at 8:20 am

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  sorry http://www.<!– –>xxx.com

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  tandava108 · Member · Jul 9, 2013 at 8:21 am

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  Damn – I can’t get this to show right. last try

  http://www.&lt;!– –><!– –>xxx.com

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  gholms · Member · Jul 9, 2013 at 4:28 pm

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  Perfect! Here’s what I ended up with. Hopefully it will show up correctly.
  www<!-- -->.example.com

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  glapido · Member · Jul 14, 2013 at 10:57 pm

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  I completely agree with you: it’s annoying.

  I don’t think it’s right to get this solved thru the use of preformatted (or pre html tag) style.

  Or else, they should provide us a new settings option to turn this feature off.

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  gholms · Member · Jul 14, 2013 at 11:02 pm

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  I didn’t have to put it in a pre block. The comment alone was sufficient.