HTML Control link to mailto

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Hello community.

I was wondering if this is possible?

I have a Html Text control and inside some text and a link with "mailto:person@email.com". When I click in the link the app open the mail client, but I would like to open a popup and send the email within the app and avoid any navigation outside of the app.

Could this be done? If so could please point me in the right direction?

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timl 36,863 Super User 2026 Season 1 on at

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Hi @sajarac

This isn't possible.

As an alternative to using "mailto:", you could maybe build your own email composition form and to send the message by calling the Outlook 365 (sendmail) connector?

https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/connectors/office365

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Sajarac 3,284 on at

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Hey @timl , thank you very much for your prompt response. How can I trigger the email composition form, from the link located inside the html text?

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Hi @sajarac

You should not use HTMLText controls for any Power-Apps interactive elements (you can use html interactive elements but simplified tab index setting for the App must be on), as they are by definition not able to function as a button and the guidance from Microsoft says to not use them as such

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I would instead have a gallery of buttons that splits the text and pulls all email addresses from it, that way you could have a button to email each by clicking the individual rows

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timl 36,863 Super User 2026 Season 1 on at

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Hi @sajarac

This would be quite difficult to do. Is the case that your HTML text comes from source that you can't control (eg, it contains the content of an incomming email?)

If your HTML text would only ever contain 1 mailto link, you could try to trigger the email composition form from the OnSelect of the HTML text control.

Otherwise, @iAm_ManCat 's approach of splitting the emails into a gallery control could be the best approach.

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Sajarac 3,284 on at

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Thank you very much both for the help. The html text came from a Sharepoint column with rich text property enabled. And I have all the formatting tables links inside . Which I would like to keep it as it is.

I guess maybe adding an additional column with the email and then adding an icon to trigger the email pop up.

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timl 36,863 Super User 2026 Season 1 on at

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Hi @sajarac

This sounds like a great idea!

>> I guess maybe adding an additional column with the email and then adding an icon to trigger the email pop up.

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