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Certified Developer v6
Certified Developer v6
szarouski - 1/26/2012 10:49:34 AM
   
BBcode link text
Hello,
BBcode link is bugging me a lot because it doesn't remember text selection. Easy example which you can test even here in reply to this message (as devnet is using bbcode editor):
try to add some text to bbcode textarea,
select some word or text,
click on bbcode link image,
enter url,
next step will ask you to add description for url

In last step if you leave description blank, selected word or text from step 2 will dissappear, or if you will fill description with another description, then original description will be lost (which user can miss).

Suggested fix - remember text selection (just like you are doing with bold or italic buttons), when prompting show this selection in description box.

Please fix that in advanced mode as well.

Just in case, I tested this in Firefox and Chrome.
Thanks

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kentico_zdenekc - 2/7/2012 6:08:10 PM
   
RE:BBcode link text
Hello,

I know exactly what you are writing about. It's really annoying and I'm doing various tricks to insert a link to the selected text.
I often place the cursor before the actual text to be selected, but I do not select anything. Then I add the link using the dialog, with just a single letter as the description. Then you could easily cut the last part with [/url] and paste it behind your description, so that it becomes a link when resolved. The link dialog wasn't meant to support that.

I'm anyway forwarding your request to our developers so they could consider improving the BBcode editor.

Regards,
Zdenek