title: Open an external URL
body: <p>I am developing a Vuejs application in which I need to display the url for a company. I am displaying it like below:</p>
  
  <pre><code>&lt;a :href="company.website"&gt;{{company.website}}&lt;/a&gt;
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>and <code>company.website</code> holds the value <code>www.companyname.com</code>. </p>
  
  <p>Whenever I click on the link, it opens with the localhost url appended like below:</p>
  
  <p><code>http://localhost:2000/www.companyname.com</code></p>
  
  <p>How to make it just open company url? </p>
  
  <p>PS: I know that adding<code>http or https</code> to the url solves the issue. I would like to know if there is any other way to solve this issue.</p>