Hey Sam - the first line of your answer is inane. I guess you're trying to help, but that doesn't change the fact: inane answer.
On Friday, May 4, 2018 at 2:39:43 PM UTC+1, Sam Hathaway wrote: > > The BBEdit tag editor is designed to let you edit tag *attributes* not > tag *contents*. > > The problem with editing *contents* through the tag editor is that the > contents of an <A> tag can include *almost any HTML element*, not just > text. > > So how could the tag editor handle this? It’d have to have a nested BBEdit > text window, with all markup features included, wouldn’t it? And inside > that? Where would it end? > > Hope this helps. > -sam > > On 3 May 2018, at 21:35, Seamus de Mora wrote: > > Wow... All of those values in that dialog box, and nothing for *link text > <https://www.w3schools.com/html/html_links.asp>!* That is *stupefying* > <https://en.oxforddictionaries.com/definition/stupefy>! > > > > > On Friday, May 4, 2018 at 1:00:38 AM UTC+1, Robert wrote: > > On Thursday, May 3, 2018 at 6:26:35 PM UTC-4, Seamus de Mora wrote: > > This is a follow-up to my previous post wherein I've been trying to get > BBEdit to create a simple hypertext link. > > Here's the dialog box as I've completed it: > > > < > https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-RPJMeIR8L44/WuuLNq456zI/AAAAAAAAAao/1eWU81CK3nYb48FC-NcR8gaKByY1L6BNACLcBGAs/s1600/Screen%2BShot%2B2018-05-03%2Bat%2B9.06.23%2BPM.png > > > > > And here's the HTML that created: > > <a href="https://www.keysight.com/main/techSupport.jspx"; name="name" > title="title" target="target" id="id" class="class"></a> > > > So: what is the text called that falls between the "><" arrows - the text > that appears as the hyperlink in an HTML page? Apparently it's not any of > the choices listed in the dialog... was that part omitted? > > It doesn't have an option for that. That is why it puts the cursor there > when you create it that way. That might be a good feature enhancement > though. They could call it "value" or something. > > -- > Bob > > -- > This is the BBEdit Talk public discussion group. If you have a > feature request or would like to report a problem, please email > "[email protected] <javascript:>" rather than posting to the group. > Follow @bbedit on Twitter: <http://www.twitter.com/bbedit> > --- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "BBEdit Talk" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to [email protected] <javascript:>. > To post to this group, send email to [email protected] <javascript:> > . > Visit this group at https://groups.google.com/group/bbedit. > > -- This is the BBEdit Talk public discussion group. If you have a feature request or would like to report a problem, please email "[email protected]" rather than posting to the group. Follow @bbedit on Twitter: <http://www.twitter.com/bbedit> --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "BBEdit Talk" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. Visit this group at https://groups.google.com/group/bbedit.
