Of course! It all makes perfect sense when you already know how it works. But no one here cares to look at the dialog objectively, and ask whether or not it might be confusing. OK, that's all for now - I'm crawling out of the rabbit hole for a break.
On Friday, May 4, 2018 at 12:33:05 PM UTC+1, ollie wrote: > > Hi Seamus, > > The intention I believe is to first select the portion of text you would > like to be *wrapped* with the anchor tag before clicking the button in > the HTML tools. <a>linked text</a> > > Although BBEdit is great for editing HTML, I would recommend you do so > alongside the developer tools of a modern browser. I personally enjoy using > Firefox: https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Tools > > Learning your way around these tools will help you learn how the HTML/CSS > works in websites in the wild. For a quick into checkout: > https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Tools/Page_Inspector/UI_Tour > > Welcome to the web! > > Cheers > Ollie > > On 4 May 2018 at 09:30, Robert <[email protected] <javascript:>> 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.
