make example links clickable, for convenience

2 files changed, 2 insertions, 2 deletions

diff --git a/docs/narr/firstapp.rst b/docs/narr/firstapp.rst
index 0b85d68d3..50aa02692 100644
--- a/docs/narr/firstapp.rst
+++ b/docs/narr/firstapp.rst
@@ -40,7 +40,7 @@ On Windows:
 This command will not return and nothing will be printed to the console.
 When port 8080 is visited by a browser on the URL ``/hello/world``, the
 server will simply serve up the text "Hello world!".  If your application is
-running on your local system, using ``http://localhost:8080/hello/world``
+running on your local system, using `<http://localhost:8080/hello/world>`_
 in a browser will show this result.
 
 Each time you visit a URL served by the application in a browser, a logging
diff --git a/docs/narr/urldispatch.rst b/docs/narr/urldispatch.rst
index 46f908b7c..ec97bf3b2 100644
--- a/docs/narr/urldispatch.rst
+++ b/docs/narr/urldispatch.rst
@@ -38,7 +38,7 @@ application.  A route has a *name*, which acts as an identifier to be used
 for URL generation.  The name also allows developers to associate a view
 configuration with the route.  A route also has a *pattern*, meant to match
 against the ``PATH_INFO`` portion of a URL (the portion following the scheme
-and port, e.g. ``/foo/bar`` in the URL ``http://localhost:8080/foo/bar``). It
+and port, e.g. ``/foo/bar`` in the URL `<http://localhost:8080/foo/bar>`_). It
 also optionally has a ``factory`` and a set of :term:`route predicate`
 attributes.