<a> tag (and other HTML tags) in text variable

Feb 23, 2022

Is there a way to pass in a link tag? I'm trying to pull content from a json file into a text box on the slide - I need to be able to include clickable links. I'm not sure if <a> tags are supported, and if not, do you know if there's another way to make a link without doing so through the UI?

My <b> and <u> tags, which are supposed to be officially supported in variables, also aren't working.

Here's a portion of the json:

"a3": {
"cat": "Educate Yourself",
"title": "Dive into the Challenges Faced by the Black African American Community",
"desc": "<b><u>Why Opening Up at Work Is Harder for Minorities</u></b><br><a href='https://hbr.org/podcast/2018/08/why-opening-up-at-work-is-harder-for-minorities'>Watch this 22 minute podcast episode</a>."
},

All of the text populates properly. The <br> page breaks work. The <b> and <u> do not work, and do not show up as text. The <a> tags do not work, and do not show up as text.

2 Replies
Becky Goldberg

I would need the URL to come from the config file, and right now I can't get a clickable element to come through using a text variable - how would the hotzone work, considering I cannot specify the URL through the source file?

I wonder if this would work: Right now, there's a 'modal' (a layer made to look like a modal) with the text passed in through the config file, and an "I did this" button...  if I add another button to the modal saying, "Let's do it!" with a trigger for a javascript function with a paramater looking for a URL from the config file... I will try that next!