Legacy Form + Rich Formula Field
I want to display a link on my form. It needs to be displayed always. The code I used in the older form was: var text Words = "Core Rules"; var text URL = URLRoot() & "up/" & [_DBID_Documents] & ...
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I think I have spotted the issue. The old form appears to not be such a stickler for syntax. Maybe?
An HTML link needs quotes around the URL. I believe your original formula doesn't keep quotes around the URL. A typical HTML link looks like this:
<a href="https://www.w3schools.com/tags/att_a_href.asp">Visit W3Schools</a>
I believe your formula generates this instead:
<a href=https://www.w3schools.com/tags/att_a_href.asp>Visit W3Schools</a>
Notice how the URL doesn't have quotes around it. Try the scrap of code below to add in the missing quotes:
"<a href=\"" & $URL & "\">" & $Words & "</a>"
Adding a \ before a character that would otherwise be read as code is called "escaping" that character.