I was angry with you because your response struck me as disingenuous and cutting. Esp. the suggestion to type it all out! Why would you think that would be helpful in a forum for BBEdit - an app that is supposed to add value by avoiding such an approach. So that's why - I hope that's clear to you now.
On Friday, May 4, 2018 at 7:16:57 PM UTC+1, David Donachie wrote: > > Hi > > Not sure why you are so angry at me when you actually ignored my answer. > > You type the link text first. Then you select it. Then you open the > dialog, or type cmd-ctrl-a, and fill it in. Then when you close the dialog > it puts the anchor AROUND THE TEXT YOU TYPED, as I said. > > It is quite true I had never used the dialog before, I just don’t see the > point in it, but I did go and use it specifically to try and help you > before I posted my reply. > > David > > On 4 May 2018, at 03:22, Seamus de Mora <[email protected] <javascript:>> > wrote: > > I guess you could call it "Link Text", or you could call it by one of the > 3 or 4 other names that are used to describe the text that you see rendered > in a link. But you've obviously not actually used the dialog, because there > is NO PLACE in it for the "Link Text" by any name. And this makes me wonder > why you're posting answers here when you've never actually tried it > yourself. > > And yes, one could just type it all out "longhand". But I can do that with > the free editor I got on my Mac. > > ~S > > On Thursday, May 3, 2018 at 11:26:35 PM UTC+1, David Donachie wrote: >> >> You would call that the link text. >> >> What you want to do is type the link text first, then select it, then >> press cmd-ctrl-a and fill in the dialog, which will result in your text >> wrapped in a tag. >> >> Or just type >> >> <a href="foo.com">Link Text</a> >> >> David >> >> >> On 3 May 2018, at 21:11, Seamus de Mora <[email protected]> wrote: >> >> This: >> <https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-ZHKfeSQy1FE/WutsX1H5YEI/AAAAAAAAAaY/o3PoU8w4BRMsp6LF28ktpimQf8C_cMEmACLcBGAs/s1600/Screen%2BShot%2B2018-05-03%2Bat%2B9.06.23%2BPM.png> >> >> >> Yields this: <a href="https://www.keysight.com/main/techSupport.jspx"; >> name="name" title="title" target="target" id="id" class="class"></a> >> >> >> I'm sorry, but this just does not make sense to me. What is it that you >> call the text you actually see to "click" on? >> >> >> >> >> >> On Thursday, May 3, 2018 at 8:39:58 PM UTC+1, Steve wrote: >>> >>> ctrl-cmd-a >>> >>> or from the menu Markup->Inline->Anchor >>> >>> or type out an anchor link tag manually. >>> >>> - Steve >>> On Thu, May 3, 2018 at 12:33 PM Seamus de Mora <[email protected]> >>> wrote: >>> >>> > Maybe I'm just too stupid to use BBEdit. I'm trying to create a small >>> HTML block to go into an eBay ad. I selected HTML document, and all I >>> need >>> to do really is create a link to a website. But after combing through >>> the >>> confusing menu of choices, I see NOTHING that supports the butt-simple >>> creation of a hypertext link! Can anyone here thell me where it's hidden >>> - >>> or if it exists? >>> >>> > -- >>> > This is the BBEdit Talk public discussion group. 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