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 Convert URLs to HTML Links

Turn plain URLs, www addresses and email addresses into clickable HTML anchor tags. Linkify a full text or convert a list of URLs, set target and rel attributes, choose the link text, and copy clean HTML code — all processed locally in your browser.

⚙️ Options
rel attribute
Tip: in list mode you can set the link text per line with URL | link text.

⭐ Convert URLs to HTML Links - Explanation & Examples

The Convert URLs to HTML Links tool turns plain web addresses into clickable <a href> anchor tags. Paste a block of text and every URL, www address and email address is linkified while the rest of the text stays intact — or paste a list of URLs and get a clean list of HTML links back. No manual typing of anchor tags, no broken attributes.

🔎 What Does This Tool Do?

  • Detects http://, https:// and ftp:// URLs in any text
  • Optionally detects www. addresses without a protocol and adds https://
  • Can force https:// (or http://) for all web links
  • Converts email addresses into mailto: links
  • Adds target, rel, class and title attributes
  • Lets you choose the link text: full URL, URL without protocol, domain only, or custom text
  • Outputs a URL list as plain lines, <br>-separated, <ul>, <ol> or paragraphs
  • Shows a live rendered preview and a count of converted links

⚙️ How It Works

  1. Paste your text or a list of URLs into the input field.
  2. Choose Linkify text to keep the surrounding text, or Link list to extract all URLs into a list of links.
  3. Set the target, rel values, link text and other options.
  4. Copy the generated HTML or download it as an .html file.

💡 Example: Linkify Text

Input:

Read the guide at https://example.com/guide.
Questions? Mail info@example.com

Output:

Read the guide at <a href="https://example.com/guide" target="_blank" rel="noopener">https://example.com/guide</a>.
Questions? Mail <a href="mailto:info@example.com">info@example.com</a>

Note that the trailing period is kept outside the link, so the URL stays valid.

💡 Example: URL List with Custom Link Text

In list mode you can set the link text per line with a pipe character:

https://example.com | Example homepage
www.example.org/blog | Our blog

Output (unordered list):

<ul>
  <li><a href="https://example.com" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Example homepage</a></li>
  <li><a href="https://www.example.org/blog" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Our blog</a></li>
</ul>

✅ Why Use This Tool?

  • Time-saving: Convert dozens of URLs into links in one go
  • SEO control: Add nofollow, ugc or sponsored where needed
  • Safe output: Special characters are properly HTML-escaped
  • HTML-aware: Existing anchor tags are left untouched when you paste HTML
  • Private: Everything runs locally in your browser

📋 Common Use Cases

  • Making URLs clickable in blog posts, newsletters and CMS content
  • Building a link list or resource page from a list of URLs
  • Adding target="_blank" and rel attributes to external links
  • Preparing affiliate or sponsored links with the right rel values

⚠️ Tips & Notes

  • When your input already contains HTML, uncheck Escape HTML in text so tags are preserved.
  • target and rel are not added to mailto: links.
  • Use Max link text length to shorten very long URLs in the visible link text.

🚀 Try the Tool

Use Convert URLs to HTML Links to turn plain addresses into clean, clickable HTML in seconds — with full control over attributes and link text.

This tool is also known as

  • convert urls to html links online
  • make urls clickable in text
  • linkify text online
  • url to anchor tag converter
  • bulk url to html link generator

Frequently Asked Questions

It finds plain URLs, www addresses and email addresses in your text and converts them into clickable HTML anchor tags, ready to paste into a website, CMS or email template.

Linkify text keeps all surrounding text and only replaces the URLs with links. Link list mode extracts every URL from the input, drops the surrounding text, and outputs a list of links, optionally wrapped in a ul, ol, br or p structure.

Yes. Set the target to _blank and the tool adds target="_blank" to every link. The rel="noopener" option is enabled automatically for safety.

Yes. Tick any combination of noopener, noreferrer, nofollow, ugc and sponsored and they are added to the rel attribute of every web link.

Yes. Addresses starting with www. are detected and get https:// in the href, while the visible text stays as written.

Yes. Set Protocol to 'Force https://' and every http:// URL is rewritten to https:// in both the href and the link text. 'Force http://' does the opposite.

Yes. Email addresses become mailto: links. You can turn this off with the 'Convert email addresses to mailto links' option.

Yes. Show the full URL, the URL without protocol, only the domain, or a custom text. In list mode you can also set text per line using 'URL | link text'.

Trailing periods, commas, question marks and unbalanced closing brackets are kept outside the link, so a URL at the end of a sentence still works.

Yes. Uncheck 'Escape HTML in text' and the tool only linkifies plain text, leaving existing tags and anchor elements untouched.

No. All processing happens locally in your browser. Your text and URLs are never uploaded or stored.

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