When generating a mail from a SharePoint list with links to items hyper link doesn't work

[clausbusk]

I have a SharePoint list from which I generate an email. I generate a HTML table with the contents which seems to work fine. If I just add Link to Item in my mail everything works but looks ugly as the link is quite long. If i add <href="Link to Item">some text</a> instead the link doesn't work. Reason seems to be that the following is added to the link. Is that a bug or should I do something different?

file:///Applications/Microsoft%20Outlook.app/Contents/Frameworks/EmailRendererKit.framework/Resources/;https://link that works without the a href around it...

[grantjenkins]

Is that exactly how you have your hyperlink? If so then you just need to change the start of it slightly.

<href="Link to Item">some text</a>

//Should be

<a href="Link to Item">some text</a>

[clausbusk]

Thank you for the reply. Obviously my bad. My link looks like this

and produce what is mentioned in the first post

[clausbusk · Accepted solution]

Resolved this as the syntax should be <a href='link to item'>text</a> rather than <a href="link to item">text</a> 

[grantjenkins]

I just tried with Link to item and works successfully for me when adding into an email.

Can you ensure you've switched your email body to HTML mode (clicking on the </> in the Body).

[grantjenkins]

Just saw your post now - nice that you got it working 🙂