1122985 - Show the URL of a link as tooltip

Status: RESOLVED WONTFIX

(developer.mozilla.org Graveyard :: Editing, enhancement)

Description

[Sebastian Zartner [:sebo]]

What problems would this solve?
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Would make it easier to get to know the URL of a linked part of text. Currently people have to edit a link to see its URL.

Who would use this?
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page editors

What would users see?
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The URL in a tooltip.

What would users do? What would happen as a result?
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Users would hover a link and get the URL displayed within a tooltip.

Is there anything else we should know?
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Comment 1

[Stephanie Hobson [:shobson]]

I see the link URL in a tooltip if I hover over it. Sounds like that isn't working for you? Could you let me know your browser/OS combo and include a link to the page?

Comment 2

[Sebastian Zartner [:sebo]]

The tooltip is just shown when you add a 'title' attribute to the anchor element yourself.

Test case:
1. Go to https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/CSS$edit.
2. Hover the 'stylesheet' link.
   => No tooltip is shown.
3. Hover the 'HTML' link.
   => 'The HyperText Mark-up Language' is shown in a tooltip instead of the URL.
4. Select the word 'Demos' of the title in the third box.
5. Create a link to 'Demos of open web technologies [en-US]'.
6. Hover the created link
   => No tooltip is shown.

This functionality is unrelated to the OS and browser version, though FWIW I'm using Firefox 35.0 on Windows 7 SP1.

What I'd expect is that you can always see the URL of a link when you're editing a page independently of the 'title' attribute assigned to it.

Sebastian

Comment 3

[Sebastian Zartner [:sebo]]

Attachment: Link URL display in Gmail.png

Gmail has a nice way to solve this and at the same time improves the UX by displaying a popup including the URL plus options to change and remove the link when the text cursor is placed within the link.

IMO this would be the optimal solution.

Sebastian

Comment 4

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