Absolute email address on Jekyll

Question

I am writing the contact page of my blog. When I put the email address in markdown format

[contact me] (myname@gmail.com)

Jekyll sees the email address as a relative path and auto-completes it to localhost:4000/myname@gmail.com locally or https://usr.github.com/myname@gmail.com when pushed to github, which leads to an unable-to-find page. In contrast, if the email address is left as it is, the address should be opened by a mail client.

Is there a way to force the email address to be absolute (disable auto-completion) or are there other workarounds?

I searched and didn't find a solution. I'll appreciate your kind help with this problem.

rkrv. · Answer 1 · 2018-07-03T08:46:26.477

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The correct Markdown syntax for creating an email links is:

[contact me](mailto:myname@gmail.com)

edited Jul 03 '18 at 08:46

answered Sep 15 '14 at 10:31

rkrv.

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This should be marked correct. Clearly the `markdown` way to do things. – Daniel Schütte Jun 25 '19 at 13:31

score 4 · Accepted Answer · edited Mar 18 '18 at 01:04

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Just figured out the question with Markdown Documentation. It turns out not to be a jekyll problem but a MarkDown one. I replaced the line

[contact me] (myname@gmail.com)

with

<a href="mailto:myname@gmail.com">contact me</a>

and the problem was resolved.

Probably the mailto: link is some common sense but it did trap me for a while.

edited Mar 18 '18 at 01:04

answered Nov 15 '13 at 00:37

Sophia Feng

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