I think the crux of the issue is that most HTML tags are going to contain nested, formatted HTML. If you edit the <body> tag do you expect to see all of your document in the dialog box? It opens up a whole can of worms. You could include it for "simple" tags, but even anchor tags may contain images or other markup as the anchor rather than simple text.
[fletcher] > On May 5, 2018, at 7:29 AM, Greg Raven <[email protected]> wrote: > > Actually, Sam's answer is the correct one. BBEdit is a text editor. You > create text files with it. Links in HTML documents are text. You create text > in BBEdit by typing. > > BBEdit also offers several features to help create HTML files. HTML files > contain tags -- AKA html markup -- that do not appear as text in a browser > but add features or functionality. To aid in adding links to the text you > have created in BBEdit, you can use the Edit Markup ... dialog box. This > allows you quickly and easily to create valid tags for your HTML document. > Because the link text is not part of the markup, logically and objectively > the link text should not appear in the markup dialog box, any more than the > Edit Markup ... dialog box should allow you to edit an image or PDF file or > audio file or video file when you create the markup to include any of them in > your HTML document. > > To put it another way, I've been using BBEdit for nearly three decades and it > never occurred to me that I should be able to edit the link text in the > markup dialog box. > > On Friday, May 4, 2018 at 7:31:46 PM UTC-7, Seamus de Mora wrote: > 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 > <https://www.w3schools.com/html/html_links.asp>>!* That is *stupefying* > <https://en.oxforddictionaries.com/definition/stupefy > <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 > > <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 > <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. 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