URL--Text to Display Feature

Hi! Also interested in this capability! Thank you!

Is there a way to lead a phone number? That would help a million!!

David, Not quite sure what you mean by “lead a phone number”, but there is currently a field type for phone number.

Create a new field of type “Phone Number” and 10 digit number you enter will be auto formatted.

e.g. 8005551212 becomes (800) 555-1212

If you want to override the US format you can enter your own formatting which will turn off auto format for that record.

Here is a GIF showing the feature in action.

(You might have to click the image to get it to play - depending on your browser / platform).

I’m not sure I’m clear how this works but since you’re using an Amazon example would love to know if I can make a formula work for my situation.

I have Amazon Brand pages I want to put in a column named BRAND.

The links are like this:

“https://www.amazon.com/s/ref=w_bl_sl_s_ap_web_7141123011?ie=UTF8&node=7141123011&field-brandtextbin=Do+Not+Touch+My+Natural+Hair+Shirts”

When I enter that url in the cell in Airtable I would just like to see hyperlink text of the Brand name which is “Do Not touch My Natural Hair Shirts”

Is this possible based on your example?

+1 for custom link text

I am new to Airtable as of today and was already quite sold on how it could improve on many Google Sheets tables I currently have that are basically very specific databases with relatively few records. But then I stumbled upon this issue – having to split every field that has a linked text into one text field and one URL field is quite a bummer and really surprising. So, +1 from me too for this feature. And I will have to see how much of a dealbreaker missing it is.

+1 Bumping this. I love airtables so far, but a more dynamic text editor is CRUCIAL.

+1 for custom link text. I too would really like this feature. Any updates yet?

mailto links work on the web version of airtable but not on the android version.

mailto:a@b.com,c@d.com on the web version will create an email addresses to both emails.

on the android version the comma is NOT recognized as part of the mailto link so it fails.

Thanks for this. The link works, but is displayed as "mailto:email@address.com", which… does not look very professional.

HTML editing really just needs to be enabled here…please update.

bump for pretty URLs

+1

This is a basic feature. Trivial…

I have airtable of the contents of a google drive. I have a record that names the title. I have a URL that will open the document on google drive. I WANT TO HAVE A TITLE THAT IS CLICKABLE to the URL. Is there a formula I can do?

+1 for this, please implement as this is a basic feature.

Another +1 for me! One of those things that’s going to change the game for a lot of Airtable users.

Here’s how google does it!

+1 for me as well. Thank you

Can’t believe this is still a feature request… +1

Is this still not a thing? I want to be highlight/select a text, do command+k (as is standard) and add hyperlink. So my text says “Airtable” but it’s hyperlinked and clickable. You can easily do this in Google sheets. Is this really not a thing in Airtable?

Just adding my grievance with this not yet being a feature!

+100000 on this!! The use cases are countless and this has been requested so many times. COME ON!

Couldn’t agree more that this feature would be GREAT to have! Please make this a thing.

Hi,

Is the team still working on the platform? This has been requested since 2016 and I don’t see anything being done. Text based hyperlinks are something fundamental and is expected for platforms like this.

I just signed up today and this was the first thing I wanted to do. I’ll have to get a refund as they’re don’t seem to care about this feature.

Trying to switch from Google Sheets. So far, this is the only feature i miss, and probably will wait for it to be added before switching .