There is no option to display a link as a linked URL.

If no title is provided, the default display is... nothing at all.

It's probably best to make this part of the default display option: if there is no title provided (and it's an option not to let people fill out the title at all) then the display is a linked URL.

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mlncn’s picture

mlncn commented

There was a patch to provide this functionality, not as a fallback but as an explicit option:

Add field formatter 'Plain, as link'.

benjamin, Agaric Design Collective

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quicksketch
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Status: Active » Postponed (maintainer needs more info)

This should already be the case. The following code is in place already, and works properly as the default formatter on my Drupal 5 installation:

  // Build the link with the URL or email address as the title (max 80 characters).
  else {
    $display_url = $type == LINK_EMAIL ? str_replace('mailto:', '', $url) : url($url, $query, $fragment, TRUE);
    if ($field['display']['url_cutoff'] && strlen($display_url) > $field['display']['url_cutoff']) {
      $display_url = substr($display_url, 0, $field['display']['url_cutoff']) . "...";
    }
    $output = l($display_url, $url, $attributes, $query, $fragment);
  }

This is in the case that the title is empty. Perhaps there's something incorrect about the way field settings are handled. Could you list the configuration for the your particular link field, as well as the version of CCK and Drupal core you're using?

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Status: Postponed (maintainer needs more info) » Closed (fixed)