Change a Hyperlink Column Type long hyperlink to button or word

[VeeExcelLearn]

I am not having luck making this work. How can I use Json to make everyone of my column items in the Link to Item column a button that takes me to this link.  Something prettier than this.  The column type is a hyperlink and the column name is link to item.  Hopefully this is enough information.

[#2 · Accepted solution]

@VeeExcelLearn Use JSON column formatting like: 

{
    "$schema": "https://developer.microsoft.com/json-schemas/sp/v2/column-formatting.schema.json",
    "elmType": "a",
    "attributes": {
        "href": "@currentField",
        "target": "_blank"
    },
    "style": {
        "text-decoration": "none"
    },
    "children": [
        {
            "elmType": "button",
            "txtContent": "Link to Item",
            "style": {
                "cursor": "pointer",
                "width": "100%"
            }
        }
    ]
}

Output: 

You can applying CSS styling using available properties given in documentation: formatting-syntax-reference style 

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[#3]

Its working but it did give me this error...when I tried to save. I am not sure why it did that but the buttons do appear and they work..never seen that before.

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}
Error saving column format: {"d": {"CustomFormatter": "{\"$schema\":\"https:\u002F\u002Fdeveloper.microsoft.com\u002Fjson-schemas\u002Fsp\u002Fv2\u002Fcolumn-formatting.schema.json\",\"elmType\":\"a\",\"attributes\":{\"href\":\"@currentField\",\"target\":\"_blank\"},\"style\":{\"text-decoration\":\"none\"},\"children\":[{\"elmType\":\"button\",\"txtContent\":\"Link to Item\",\"style\":{\"cursor\":\"pointer\",\"width\":\"100%\"}}]}", "Id": ""}}
Switch to design mode
This formatting JSON will be discarded

[#4]

@VeeExcelLearn I am not getting this error while saving JSON.

Refresh the page & try again saving the JSON formatting.

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