Thread:Help talk:Type URL/Showing URLs as plain text

Is it possible to show an URL as plain text, i.e. without the actual link. I tried the method explained here but it did not seem to work for URLs.

What I am trying to accomplish is to create a listing where instead of URLs the listing would show an image containing the link. This is pretty easy to do with the Template format, but the problem is that the URLs will not print out as plain text.