That’s where it really depends. A url shortening service is going to take that url and give you a shortened version of it, but it’s a bit of work to get something like that set up. There are a handful of posts in the forum where people have achieved it with some third party tools or scripting. The a href tag that we’ve been talking about here is just an html link. It’s the same as many links that you see on other websites, where the url is hidden by a friendly word or sentence. It doesn’t change the underlying url. It just makes it nicer to look at.
www.google.com
and
Jeff thinks Google Rocks!
are both clickable links pointing to the same www.google.com url, but one just looks cooler.
The problem is that not everything will render html. Sometimes it will work and sometimes it will not. In some cases, email clients and social media sites will take a url by itself and render it into a nice looking version, but that depends on a lot of things. There’s no guarantee that every email client, sms client, social media, or anything else will render just the url into a friendly version or will allow you to feed it html code. The only guarantee to have a short url is to run glide’s deep links through a third party url shortening service.
Here is a random selection of topics that discuss url shortening.