drag & drop of HTML links retaining display text in editors
if one drags a link that has display text instead of a raw link (from the browser address bar, e.g., where the display text is the page title), the link should be dropped into the various editor fields with the display text intact.
Currently display text is discarded, and only the raw link is left. One must manually restore the display text if desired.
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In this case I can only rephrase this to add Chrome support for this feature because dragging a link from FF to Chrome is not working either (used GMail to test).
It is something Chrome only has and it is not clear if it is exposed for not Google apps.
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David M. commented
Interesting. I didn't realize it was such an uncommon feature.
I use it very often in the Gmail Compose window. I also see that it works in Google Sites (not just on "internal" links, but any links).
This works when dragging from the address bar in Chrome, at least. Haven't tried it in other browsers. You drag from the "security" indicator, by the way, or clicking in the address bar text itself, highlighting the entire link text. Then you can drag.
It does NOT work in Google Docs, interestingly. Very surprising.
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No I will not. We use CKEditor and doing what you suggest will require a special plugin to be developed for this editor. I have checked - there is none available we can just use.
I did some search I see no such functionality anywhere in online editors. Even desktop apps like MS Word will show you plain URL on link drop.
Best we can do is to do the same we plan to do for Freedcamp internal links but without drag and drop. You can paste a link to editor and when you save we can replace it with page title making it <a href=your_link_pasted>Page title</a>.
Note - this will only work if link is a publicly available link Freedcamp can get a title from (not your internal company page which is behind a firewall).
Igor
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David M. commented
I'm hoping you don't mark this one Completed when your special version is done, though.
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David M. commented
interesting special case feature, but I'm guessing my feature (the generic capability, like for linking external documentation into a task description) has something to do with the behavior/handling of the editor widget being used, no?
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Long Island City Community Boathouse commented
+1
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David M. commented
+1