### Discussed in https://github.com/quarto-dev/quarto-cli/discussions/540

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<sup>Originally posted by **AlexMcClung** April  5, 2022</sup>
Hello,

What is the best way to add a clickable URL or mailto link in the author field in YAML in an html doc? Probably kludgey, but with Rmd I used to add an email as a footnote with: 

---
author: 
  - My Office Name^[email@email.edu] 
---

With quarto html rendered via knitr I get the footnote okay but the author text has the caret and email in brackets.

Thanks in advance for your help!

And loving Quarto, thanks for all of your work on this!!</div>
dragonstyle
2022-04-06T14:34:39Z
dragonstyle
closed
Don't add authors to markdown pipeline since Pandoc renders them
https://github.com/quarto-dev/quarto-cli/issues/548