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Davide Pizzolato

In the lounge there are many massages with links. Someone write the URL using the HTML tags; someone simply write the URL as plain text. In this second case, it would be nice if the parser could recognise the "http://" header of the word and add the proper HTML tag.

Michael P Butler

I believe Chris is working on this, but as with all development other things keep getting in the way. Michael :-) Look, try and use your intelligence, man, even if you are a politician. - The Doctor

Dy

That would be cool, especially if it could add a target="_blank", maybe as an option, or a default for non CP links.

Dylan Kenneally London, UK

Thomas Freudenberg

I would like to see an additional button similar to Quote Selected Text, which prompts via JavaScript for a desired URL and a textual description, and inserts <a href="_URL_">_description_</a> [<a href="_URL_" target="_blank">^</a>] (Maybe the description field should be defaulted with Clickety ;) ) So Chris has not to implement a parser for the postings... Regards Thomas Sonork id: 100.10453 Thömmi

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Thomas Freudenberg

Not tested, but just hacked in:

function EnterHyperLink()
{
var txtURL = prompt("Enter URL","");
if (txtURL == "")
return;

var TextArea = document.MessageForm.ContentText;
var text = TextArea.value;

if (document.MessageForm.Format && !document.MessageForm.Format.checked)
{
	text += txtURL;
}
else
{
	var txtDesc = prompt("Description","Clickety");
	if (txtDesc == "")
		return;

	text += "<a href=\\"" + strURL + ">" + strDesc + "</a>";
	text += " \[<a href=\\"" + strURL + " target=\\"\_blank\\">^</a>\] ";
}

TextArea.value = text;
TextArea.focus();

}

Regards Thomas Sonork id: 100.10453 Thömmi

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Nish Nishant

That's way cool! :-) Nish :cool:

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Chris Maunder

I've added a new 'link' button - thanks to Jason Jystad. cheers, Chris Maunder

Davide Pizzolato

excellent and clean solution :-D

Thomas Freudenberg

Chris Maunder wrote: I've added a new 'link' button It even inserts target="_blank"... cool. Thanks Chris. Regards Thomas Sonork id: 100.10453 Thömmi

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Chris Maunder

It adds target="_blank" only if the link is outside of CodeProject. cheers, Chris Maunder