Slack Markdown for Links Are Not Resolving

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What am I doing wrong? None of the example Markdown links work so far in my Slack app.

I pasted in the example below in a chat in my Slack app. I got this example from slack markdown syntax and it still treats it as literal text in the Slack App:

[like this](http://someurl)

so I end up seeing that instead of just "like this" as a link in Slack chat.

Or maybe the above is wrong, in which case my question would then be how do you do explicitly create links in Slack? I want some text that I specify to be clickable to a specific URL (hyperlink).

Best Answer

Slack currently does not support hyperlinks; see this link which says:

Note: It’s not possible to hyperlink words in a Slack message.

UPDATE:

Slack has finally added this functionality to their chat interface (source):

  • Select text, then click the link icon in the formatting toolbar
  • Select text, then press Cmd+Shift+U on Mac or Ctrl+Shift+U on Windows/Linux.

Copy the link you'd like to share and paste it in the empty field under Link, then click Save.

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