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title: Phone numbers, addresses and dates have ugly link formatting
description: Phone numbers, addresses and dates have ugly link formatting
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# [Phone numbers, addresses and dates have ugly link formatting](https://www.rusticfurnitureboston.com/email-design/phone-numbers-addresses-and-dates-have-ugly-link-formatting)

 Written by [James Zilch](https://www.rusticfurnitureboston.com/email-design/author/james-zilch) | Nov 6, 2017 3:12:33 AM

What’s the problem? The email reader tries to be helpful and sets links on certain data in your email such as telephone numbers, dates or addresses. Unfortunately, the email reader uses its own default text link styling, often in blue, often a slightly larger font size, and often underlined.

What to do To retain the useful functionality that this gives us whilst maintaining control over how these data text links look, we can create an embedded CSS style in the of your email that specifically targets any hyperlinks that get inserted by the email reader e.g.

.link-format-fix a{color:#B8B8B8 !important; text-decoration:none !important}

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