@shawn - 1. In the reply box, click the URL link icon 2. Enter a validly formatted URL, followed by some text in quotation marks 3. Expected result - quoted text appears as a hyperlink to the URL provided. Actual result is different.
@JerseyFrank That's vaguely how reference-style links work in Markdown, and it confuses me a bit that that's how the editor wants to do it. Can't tell you why it fails, but you can do normal Markdown links like so: [link text](url "title") …where "title" is optional, and represents the HTML title attribute.
@JerseyFrank It seems to work for me. What goes in quotes is what shows up when I hover over my link. The text I entered for the link description is what shows up on screen. What are you saying it should do?
The quotes is 'optional' because it only shows up when you hover over the link. If you want the link text to be different then you fill out the part that says 'enter link description here' after you submit the link.
Doesn't it seem strange that you can specify an optional title, but not a link description in that dialog box? (Not arguing against your correct[?] interpretation of behavior expectation, just musing about the feature.)
@JerseyFrank I'm mostly illiterate when it comes to any type of coding stuff and usually mess links up until I try it a time or two, so I have no idea. If you think it's strange, then it probably is. :-)
@JerseyFrank It's fairly typical forum (and even other WYSIWYG editor) behavior in my experience. If you highlight text before clicking the button, it wraps it in the necessary Markdown. If you don't, it gives you a starting point to enter the text after the dialog.
enter link description here
It works in the OP, but not the reply, which seems weird
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http://google.com "this is my optional text"
enter link description here
@shawn -
1. In the reply box, click the URL link icon
2. Enter a validly formatted URL, followed by some text in quotation marks
3. Expected result - quoted text appears as a hyperlink to the URL provided. Actual result is different.
@JerseyFrank That's vaguely how reference-style links work in Markdown, and it confuses me a bit that that's how the editor wants to do it. Can't tell you why it fails, but you can do normal Markdown links like so:
[link text](url "title")…where "title" is optional, and represents the HTML title attribute.
This is testing to see if the test works
@JerseyFrank It seems to work for me. What goes in quotes is what shows up when I hover over my link. The text I entered for the link description is what shows up on screen. What are you saying it should do?
The quotes is 'optional' because it only shows up when you hover over the link. If you want the link text to be different then you fill out the part that says 'enter link description here' after you submit the link.
'''
http://example.com/ "optional title"
'''
should show optional title
@JerseyFrank A title is optional and shows when you hover. It is not the same thing as the link description.
This is the link description part, hover over it to see the "optional title"
ok, then the same functionality when starting a new thread is broken. They behave differently.
Doesn't it seem strange that you can specify an optional title, but not a link description in that dialog box? (Not arguing against your correct[?] interpretation of behavior expectation, just musing about the feature.)
@JerseyFrank I'm mostly illiterate when it comes to any type of coding stuff and usually mess links up until I try it a time or two, so I have no idea. If you think it's strange, then it probably is. :-)
@JerseyFrank It's fairly typical forum (and even other WYSIWYG editor) behavior in my experience. If you highlight text before clicking the button, it wraps it in the necessary Markdown. If you don't, it gives you a starting point to enter the text after the dialog.
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I say this is a classic case of Operator Error.