Why does Sharepoint change the link urls of quicklinks after page is published?

Question

Hello,

I hope someone from Microsoft can help me understand and resolve this issue.

We want to promote some of the videos from tiktok by using the quicklinks feature in sharepoint. The link was originally https://www.tiktok.com/@symphani.soto/video/7284366283909467435

As you can see in the screenshot below the "@" symbol was replaced by "%40"

Why does this happen and is there any way to fix this please?

Answer 1

It's by design that SharePoint will automatically encode links in the Quick links web part. The special character "@" is replaced by "%40".

If you click the link in the Quick links web part, it will redirect to the correct TikTok video, just ignore the encode behavior.

As a workaround, you could use URL shorten service to shorten external links, then add shorten external links into Quick links web part.

Please refer this article: https://www.webbtech.org/2018/11/use-mailto-and-other-link-types-with.html?m=1

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