URL--Text to Display Feature

[Samantha_Allema]

I think it would be nice to have the option to hyperlink with different text showing, like any basic HTML hyperlinking. Like I can even do in this forum if I needed to.

Visually, having the url just there isn’t appealing.

[Samantha_Allema]

Thanks for the heads up!

[Kamille_Parks]

Not to belabor a point, but that beta is not just making bold/italic text and solves the request at hand (“pretty urls”). I say this for the benefit of someone reading this thread which has now veered into unrelated feature requests.

[Bill_French]

Kamille_Parks:

for the benefit of someone reading this thread which has now veered into unrelated feature requests.

Indeed, my intention is not to distract from the featured requested. This is an important one as well - one that I also need desperately.

[Tim_Cai]

+1 Please release this feature, it will make the table easy to read.

[Rubal_Verma]

Bill.French:

ed and certainly expected, is just one feature. In contrast - stark contrast actually - is a string method like Split() which has vast and deep-reaching impact on the ability to create new features and solve many data management challenges. Split() would resolve more than two dozen “feature” shortcomings of the product.

Product management should have ranked the importance of Split() (which was requested a full half-decade ago) well above a web clipper and perhaps more critical than bold/italic text.

was this ever implemented? I have url links in my table. The table is displayed on webapp. I wish the visitors on my webappp see only a text instead of the url. Is this possible yet?

[Rubal_Verma]

Rubal_Verma:

was this ever implemented? I have url links in my table. The table is displayed on webapp. I wish the visitors on my webappp see only a text instead of the url. Is this possible yet?

was this ever implemented? I have url links in my table. The table is displayed on webapp. I wish the visitors on my webappp see only a text instead of the url. Is this possible yet?

[Bill_French]

Rubal_Verma:

was this ever implemented?

If by “this” you mean the ability to split a string into an array, no.

Rubal_Verma:

I wish the visitors on my webappp see only a text instead of the url. Is this possible yet?

If by “my web app” you mean a custom web app that display links stored in Airtable, Split() has nothing to do with how you render links on a custom web app.

Instead of rendering raw link values in your web app, simply use HTML to display a label.

< a href='[airtableLinkValue]'>[label]</a>

[Kamille_Parks]

The URL Text to Display feature hasn’t been officially added yet, it is still in beta. You can sign up for the beta using the link below, which will give you access to the feature (with some other ancillary features as well). I have no idea of the timeline for when they make the feature official.

Airtable

Rich text field beta signup form - Airtable

Fill out the "Rich text field beta signup form" form quickly and securely on Airtable.

A note: this is not for the URL field type. You’ll have a new field type available called Rich Text Fields, which will allow you to type in some text (i.e. “Click Here”), and when you highlight the text there’s an option to add a URL to it.

[Julien_Belin]

Thanks !
Looks like a solution, i’ve just filled the form :slightly_smiling_face:

[Aaron_Weiss]

Thank you! As a brand new Airtable user who’s taking it for a test drive for a bigger project next year, this was the first clearly missing feature I ran into. Glad it’s on the way. I just signed up for the beta.