Can't create custom Login pages for Defender Attack Simulation Training

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Can't create custom Login pages for Defender Attack Simulation Training

Richard Stahl 20

I'm trying to create a custom login page for an attack simulation and am running into an issue. I am clicking "Create a copy" of the Microsoft login template, and am getting the following error:

The error says: ${submitLink} token must be inside a clickable element (button/link with click handler).

Every login page I have attempted to clone has this exact error message appear. What I've done to attempt to resolve this is add the following button to my login page instead of the default button.

<button type="button" onclick="${submitLink}">Sign in</button>

This puts the button in correctly in the website, just with a different color (which I am okay with), but still get the same error. What I've found is happening is that the editor is automatically removing the

onclick="${submitLink}"

portion of my button declaration.

Here is a picture of the button declaration right after I paste it into the Code box.

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As soon as I click outside of the editor box, the onclick portion of the button tag is completely removed, and the validation error appears again.

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Why is this happening? Is there something that I am doing wrong?

Thanks.

Catherine Kyalo 3,180 Reputation points Microsoft Employee

2026-05-06T09:53:22.0433333+00:00

This accepted answer here -> https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/answers/questions/5760657/cant-create-custom-login-pages-for-microsoft-attac is as per Richard's HTML, but did not resolve the issue.

Thank you Richard Stahl for sharing the correct solution below, as it will help the community.
Richard Stahl 20 Reputation points

2026-05-06T13:14:22.28+00:00

Completely unhelpful. You didn't even read my post. I already had the button tag exactly how you described it in my page. I was able to figure it out on my own.

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Catherine Kyalo 3,180 Reputation points Microsoft Employee

2026-05-06T09:53:22.0433333+00:00

This accepted answer here -> https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/answers/questions/5760657/cant-create-custom-login-pages-for-microsoft-attac is as per Richard's HTML, but did not resolve the issue.

Thank you Richard Stahl for sharing the correct solution below, as it will help the community.
Richard Stahl 20 Reputation points

2026-05-06T13:14:22.28+00:00

Completely unhelpful. You didn't even read my post. I already had the button tag exactly how you described it in my page. I was able to figure it out on my own.

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Richard Stahl 20

The only way I was able to get this working was by using the "Add Next button" and "Add Compromise button" while in the Text portion of the editor, and switching to the Code portion and using that to move it to where it was needed in the HTML of the page.

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