I am a bit uncomfortable with the answer that changing the display for hyperlinks is "bad practice"
Since the inception of CSS link behaviour display and style has been used to enhance the look and feel of websites.
We no longer have the legacy display of followed links turning purple and underlining existing everywhere.
Especially in the case where the full URL is not present (as in the example above) having the underline may not be helpful and may actually cause problems with display.
Sas VIYA 8.3 does support the use of style properties, but that being said I have encountered the same problem.
I have a link defined by the below code:
<p><span style="font-size:24pt"><span style="font-family:"Noto Sans""><span style="font-weight:bold"><span style="color:#96d1f2"><a href="/reports/reports/ab135286-4c5d-4d49-b63a-de5a364d635c" id="ac21770" style="text-decoration: none" target="_blank" type="report">Win Rate</a></span></span></span></span></p>
This displays normally in the editor, but in the report viewer the underlining remains below the text "Win Rate" Which is not desired behavior. Any solution would be helpful as it appears that SAS viewer may have its own stylesheet in the background overriding the expected behaviour. That is not a function of the "browser" but rather of a stylesheet being applied outside of the control of the report author. I may be mistaken, but I think there is likely a better explanation of this "underlining" behavior that lies beyond simply calling it "bad practice".
I do not pretend to be an expert in web design, but am familiar with numerous examples where hyperlinks are not underlined (default behavior).
We are upgrading to 8.4 soon and I will look to see if this issue remains.
