Add URL in image upload error message

Question

I'm wanting to add a URL link into the image upload error message, but it's only printing the string, not adding the hyperlink. I'm using the code below

  function my_max_image_size( $file ) {
  $size = $file['size'];
  $size = $size / 1024;
  $type = $file['type'];
  $is_image = strpos( $type, 'image' ) !== false;
  $limit = 750;
  $link = '<a href="example.com">';
  $limit_output = '750kb';
  if ( $is_image && $size > $limit ) {
    $file['error'] = 'Image files must be smaller than ' . $limit_output . '<a href="example.com"> Click here to get help</a> ';

// not working either 
 // if ( $is_image && $size > $limit ) {
  //  $file['error'] = 'Image files must be smaller than ' . $limit_output . 'Click here to get help: '.$link.' </a> ';

  }
  return $file;
}
add_filter( 'wp_handle_upload_prefilter', 'my_max_image_size' );

I've also tried with using $var and sprintf, echo, printr but nothing seems to work.

Answer 1

It's probable that HTML tags are being removed from output. You can test this by adding other HTML tags (ex: <strong>) and see if they are removed. If the bold text shows, it's possible then that bold text is permitted but not links (using wp_kses() or similar).

I backtracked the code quite a bit to see if I could find how/where the code was displayed, but did not find it quickly.

If HTML is being stripped in PHP, then the solution is to use JavaScript to add the link in.