Power automate adds a "\" to my string whenever try to compose or create an <img> html element

[Java_Uzumaki]

I am trying to use power automate to create an html image tag and send it via email. I have to send the image using the base64 encoding as the image source. The end result should look like this:

<img src="data&colon;image/gif,R01GO4..........(base 64 encoding here)..................">

In my flow I am retrieving the base64 image from a Sharepoint list by using the "get file content by path". I have verified that the base 64 looks fine in that connector. See below for a screenshot of the image content.

I am using the dataUri() function to encode the base64 for the image source.

The issue is that when I try to compose the image tag, power automate adds a "\" character to the image tag, and therefore the image will not render. It looks like this.

<img src=\"data&colon;image/gif,R01GO4..........(base 64 encoding here)\">

I have tried a variety of ways to get around this. At first I handled it all in a compose statement like this:

That doesn't work. I get this in my output:

You can see that power automate adds the "\" break character immediately after the src=.

I have tried to using the concat function like concat('<img src="','(reference to the base64)','">') and that gives me the same issue.

I am at a loss for how to create this img tag. My end goal is to send the image in the body of an outlook message.

Any help is greatly appreciated. Thank you.

[lbendlin · Accepted solution]

have you tried with single quotes?

create a string variable "Q" that has a single quote  (a la Escape Single quote from string - Power Platform Community (microsoft.com))

concat('<img src=',variables('Q'),'(reference to the base64)',variables('Q'),'>')

[Java_Uzumaki]

Thanks for the advice, but unfortunately that doesn't work either. Same error.

Same error as every other attempt.

[lbendlin]

Your quotations variable should be  a single quote.

[Java_Uzumaki]

The single quotes worked when I tried to sent a jpeg image, but it won't work when I try to send gifs.

Thank you though, this is great progress!