# Can't I use html element in notify?

**URL:** <https://discuss.elastic.co/t/cant-i-use-html-element-in-notify/77601>\
**Category:** Kibana\
**Created:** [March 7, 2017, 7:04am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/cant-i-use-html-element-in-notify/77601 "2017-03-07T07:04:02Z")\
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**Author:** ![whoami](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/a9a28c/32.png) [@whoami](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/whoami)\
**Post date:** [March 7, 2017, 7:04am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/cant-i-use-html-element-in-notify/77601/1 "2017-03-07T07:04:02Z")

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can't I use html element in notify?

`notify.info('<a href="www.google.com", target='_blank'>');`

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**Author:** ![tsullivan](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/tsullivan/32/31077_2.png) [@tsullivan](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/tsullivan)\
**Post date:** [March 7, 2017, 11:54pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/cant-i-use-html-element-in-notify/77601/2 "2017-03-07T23:54:10Z")

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Hi whoami,

You can use `notify.directive`, which takes an object that has a template (AngularJS HTML), and a controller for event handling.

Example:

```auto
const directive = {
  template: "<button ng-click='hello.goElastic()'>Elastic.co</button>",
  controllerAs: 'hello',
  controller($window) {
    this.goElastic = () => $window.open('https://www.elastic.co');
  }
};
notify.directive(directive, {
  type: 'banner',
  lifetime: Infinity,
  actions: [
    {...}
  ]
});

```

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**Author:** ![tsullivan](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/tsullivan/32/31077_2.png) [@tsullivan](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/tsullivan)\
**Post date:** [March 7, 2017, 11:56pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/cant-i-use-html-element-in-notify/77601/3 "2017-03-07T23:56:42Z")

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You can also use simple Markdown syntax in the content of any notification type, which would be a lot easier 😃

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**Author:** ![system](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/original/3X/1/a/1ac57faf039f6b580b3f104ef42a2a89e41014de.png) [@system](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/system)\
**Post date:** [April 4, 2017, 11:56pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/cant-i-use-html-element-in-notify/77601/4 "2017-04-04T23:56:53Z")

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