778196 - When a new link is created and article auto-complete is not used, path is used for link text

Status: RESOLVED FIXED

(developer.mozilla.org Graveyard :: User management, task)

Description

[KLB]

Every time I try to create a link using the WYSIWYG page editor on Kuma the URL gets used for the href, title and link text even if I provide different link text forcing me to fix the links by viewing the raw source.

Comment 1

[David Walsh :davidwalsh]

What process are you using to create the link?  The only time the link text is set to the URL is when there isn't existing text in the WYSIWYG.

Please view this:

http://screencast.com/t/s9Vgb9f2V

Any insight you can provide would be helpful.  Thanks KLB!

Comment 2

[KLB]

David,

The method displayed in the video works, but if you start with no text and click directly on the link button add link text in the popup and then the URL. The URL shows up in the link text and title tags.  Also if you try to edit an existing link all the boxes show up blank.

To replicate:
1) place cursor in editing box.
2) click on link button.
3) put text in article title box
4) put url in url box.
5) click okay.

If it matters, I'm running FF14.0.1 on Win7

Comment 3

[David Walsh :davidwalsh]

Thanks for the update KLB!

Here's another video:

http://screencast.com/t/HRnerFQ9

The "article" field is meant as an autocomplete for choosing existing articles.

I'll add :sheppy and see how he wants to handle this.

Comment 4

[David Walsh :davidwalsh]

Spoke with sheppy, he'd like your use case to work also.  On it! :)

Comment 5

[KLB]

Great! This will cause it to behave more like link widgets on other WYSIWYGs.

BTW, is there a bug opened for the way the WYSIWYG scrolls? Its scrolling behavior is a little messed up.

Comment 6

[David Walsh :davidwalsh]

Yes sir;  the link scrolling feature has a few open issues.

Comment 7

[[github robot]]

Commits pushed to master at https://github.com/mozilla/kuma

https://github.com/mozilla/kuma/commit/ca1d48252c97e685ae488c9b08c2e3c0d83e4c25
fix bug 778196 - use invalid article title as text

https://github.com/mozilla/kuma/commit/c1f6122a5f5679129d4ac0e7916c204eb03e96c3
Merge pull request #462 from darkwing/link-editor-778196

fix bug 778196 - use invalid article title as text