How do I prevent the automatic email/mailto linking in a Text element?

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I want to disable the automatic email/mailto functionality for the Text element that is described here:
https://support.wix.com/en/article/creating-a-clickable-email-address

I.e. I do not want the mail client launched when a Text element with an email address is clicked. I tried hooking up the onClick event in the page code and then have it do nothing, but the email client is still invoked.

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Maybe be others will have better ideas, but i can think of 3 directions:

  1. Without code: add a character zero-width before the “@”. you can copy the charterer from here . Cons: if someone will copy and paste it, it might be sent to a different address and not to yours :).

  2. Without code: put a transparent shape over it. Cons: the user won’t be able to copy it by right click or crtl+c;

  3. with code: Use the html property to push the text, and add something in the middle so it won’t be recognized as an email. For example like:

$w("#text1").html = "<p class=\"p1\">address<span></span>@gmail.com</p>"

Cons: none;
Bottom line. You should go for the code.

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  • without code, you can link the text to the current page, then it won’t link to the email, but yet, it’ll be a little bit weird. So code it is, I guess.
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  • if you want to use a code but not the html property, you can ad a back-slash f before the @:
$w("#text1").text = "address\f@gmail.com"