l function converts automatically system path in alias where available. This simple snippet ports this useful function on your raw HTML attributes, point to alias or to the system path. if(($nodepath = drupal_lookup_path(‘alias’,”node/”.$realnode->nid))===FALSE) $nodepath = base_path() . “node/”.$realnode->nid; Where $nodepath can be used on href Cfr. drupal_lookup_path