Closed Bug 280111 Opened 20 years ago Closed 20 years ago

can not paste browser link into message composition window

Categories

(Thunderbird :: Message Compose Window, defect)

Product:
Thunderbird
Component:
Message Compose Window
Platform:
x86
Windows 2000
Type:
defect
Priority:
Not set
Severity:
normal

Tracking

(Not tracked)

Status:
RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 176525

People

(Reporter: spafford, Assigned: mscott)

Details

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; en-US; rv:1.7.5) Gecko/20041107 Firefox/1.0
Build Identifier: Thunderbird  version 0.8 (20040913)

If I copy to clipboard the URL address in Firefox, and paste it in the
composition window of Outlook Express, it shows to be a link (underlined and in
blue).  If I do exactly the same thing with Thunderbird as the target, the link
shows as plain text and I can find no way to "format" it as being a link (html).
 However, if I close that composition window and say I want a copy saved in the
Drafts folder, that copy in drafts now shows all pasted in links as links, not
plain text. 

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1.copy to clipboard the URL address in Firefox
2.paste it in the composition window of Thunderbird 
3.

Actual Results:  
paste from clipboad is shown to be plaintext

Expected Results:  
paste from clipboard should be shown as a link

 Yes, I have spent a great deal of time searching Thunderbird help, FAQ, and bug
reports already yet, with no answer.  What's up?  This is the basic method which
I have used for years to e-mail someone "hey, take a look at this thing I found
on the web."  Surely, Thunderbird isn't going to make this simple job more
complex.  If the "fix" is some switch hidden better than my finding ability,
might I suggest that the install default be set such that pasting a link into
Thunderbird works as it does in the "typical" install of Outlook Express? 
Thanks for all of the great work that you guys are putting into Thunderbird.  I
think that as is (v0.8), that it's already the slickest e-mail client out there
($ or not).  It's good to see that the Amish "barn raising" mindset lives on in
Cyberville.  Thanks........
(In reply to comment #0)

I agree that it would be better to show URL address as hyperlink. However, when
you send a message, thunderbird is smart enough to turn URL address into
hyperlink automatically _if you choose HTML message format_. For instance, when
I sent a message with the URL of this bug, thunderbird created a message with
following html part. If you take a look at it, you will find a hyperlink of the
URL. So, recipients will not have any problem in browsing the link.

---
<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01 Transitional//EN">
<html>
<head>
  <meta content="text/html;charset=ISO-8859-1" http-equiv="Content-Type">
</head>
<body bgcolor="#ffffff" text="#000000">
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=280111">https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=280111</a>
</body>
</html> 
---

Moreover, if you want to paste URLs in your own way, you can try
'insert'->'link' menu or 'CTRL + L'. You can set link text and link location
separately. However, please keep in mind that not everybody likes to receive
html format message. Personally, I prefer plain text becuase it is clean and
simple. Even in case of message with URL, thunderbird shows it as hyperlink (as
you already noticed in your draft copy).

Hope this helps.

If instead of "Copy Link Location" you select the text containing the link and 
copy that, then the clipboard contains the entire HTML of the selection -- the 
original text and the link -- and pasting it will work as you expect.

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 176525 ***
Status: UNCONFIRMED → RESOLVED
Closed: 20 years ago
Resolution: --- → DUPLICATE
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