Kirbytex email:
(email: me@example.com text: e-mail)
Does not render as an email link (only ‘e-mail’), and produces something like this:
Kirby 3.8.1.1
I can only guess: do you use widont() on your field? It looks like there’s an that should not be there.
The href looks fine — it’s for spam protection.
Good guess:
$site->description()->kirbytext()->widont()
Yes, I know about the email encoding.
But about the widont(), seems like a bit of a strange point to insert the
Or is it not to be used in combination with kt()?
Try widont() before kirbytext()
I guess the widont helper isn’t aware of html, it just replaces the last space with an .
Was thinking the same, let’s just hope it doesn’t do a
(email: me@example.com text: e-mail)
widont() before kirbytext():
email link works though 
We can hope!
widont() can lead to unpredictable results in combination with kirbytext() removing the widont() solved this issue, with thanks to @thguenther