u/jyliu86

Can't create list in Sharepoint

Apologies if this is a stupid question, how can I replicate this HTML behavior in Sharepoint for Office 365?

<ul>

<li><a href="www.google.com">Document 1</a></li>

<li><a href="www.google.com">Document 2</a></li>

<li><a href="www.google.com">Document 3</a></li>

</ul>

I'm not a trained sharepoint admin, but I got voluntold for the role since I have some basic web admin experience from back in the late 90's.

Here are the Web Parts I tried:

  1. "Link" - this doesn't work because it adds a web preview to the link instead of plain text. This clutters up the screen and takes up too much real estate, especially with all of the top and left menu bars that I have to inherent from the parent site, none of which I control.

  2. "Quick links" - Closest to what I'm looking for. Unfortunately, it forces things into 2 columns, even when I click the "List" layout option. Text also gets truncated very quickly to ... suffixes and I can't find the settings to set the number of columns, nor how many characters I truncate.

  3. "List" - I get all of Sharepoint's overhead space to add and remove and edit stuff. But I can't duplicate the <a href> behavior with a clean LINK TEXT, with the URL itself hidden. I have 2 columns: title, URL, and the URL is really long and ugly.

Am I insane for thinking this is supposed to be an easy problem to solve?

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u/jyliu86 — 10 hours ago