Link to External URL with innerHTML 1

[larrydavid]

Hello,

I am trying to link to an external URL and have confirmed that the link is good (I can paste it in the address bar of my browser and it goes fine). But I need to surround the link in hyperlink tags so the user can click on it to go to the URL from my web page. Here is the code:

td.innerHTML = "<a href=\"[URL unfurl="true"]http://TESTSERVER123/reportserver?/Data_Analysis/Billed_Charges_Per_Customer&rs:Command=Render&CustomerId="[/URL] + customer.TIN + "\" target=\"_blank\">" + "</a>";

I have been researching the syntax on this and from what I can gather I am probably not escaping the slashes properly in my link, but I am stumped at this point. Any help would be greatly appreciated.

Thanks,
Larry

 

[JustinEzequiel]

try escaping the ampersands
...Customer&rs:Command=Render&CustomerId...
should be
...Customer&rs:Command=Render&CustomerId...

 

[vacunita]

Your escaping is fine. But the fact there's nothing to click on in your link makes it hard to see a usable link.

td.innerHTML = "<a href=\"[URL unfurl="true"]http://TESTSERVER123/reportserver?/Data_Analysis/Billed_Charges_Per_Customer&rs:Command=Render&CustomerId="[/URL] + customer.TIN + "\" target=\"_blank\">"[red]>>[/red] + [red]<<[/red]"</a>";

You are closing your link immediately after opening it. So your link has no real surface to click on. Add some text there to give it a clickable area.

td.innerHTML = "<a href=\"[URL unfurl="true"]http://TESTSERVER123/reportserver?/Data_Analysis/Billed_Charges_Per_Customer&rs:Command=Render&CustomerId="[/URL] + customer.TIN + "\" target=\"_blank\">" + [red]"Some Text To Click" +[/red] "</a>"

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[larrydavid]

Thank you all for your advice. You are correct vacunita, I simply needed to add clickable text and it works now. Thank you so much!

Larry