Does MarsEdit support popup titles for links?
  • scottwslavinscottwslavin
    I purchased MarsEdit yesterday and am beginning to compose posts within the program. One question that I cannot find an answer to in Help is whether there's a way to add titles to links inside posts as I can from within Wordpress. Is this possible?

    Thanks very much,
    Scott
  • Daniel JalkutDaniel Jalkut
    Hi Scott - thanks for purchasing MarsEdit.

    MarsEdit's default link command doesn't yet support features like setting the title or declaring whether the link should open in a new window. I hope to support this by default in the future.

    In the mean time you could define a custom Formatting Macro to more or less achieve this:

    1. From the post editor, select Format -> Customize...
    2. Click the plus icon to add a new item.
    3. Name it e.g. "Link w/Title"
    4. For the opening HTML put:

    <a href="#askurl#" title="#asktext Title#">

    5. For the closing HTML put:

    </a>

    6. Optionally give it a keyboard shortcut.

    Now you have a Format menu item that will ask you first for a URL and then ask you for a title, using that data to build the desired link.

    Hope this helps!
    Daniel
  • markgdixonmarkgdixon
    Thanks for explaining the custom macro capability. It provided a good workaround for my need to insert 'target="blank"' within the tag. If the standard link macro could provide that as an option in the future, it would be great.

    Thanks!
    Mark
  • markgdixonmarkgdixon
    By the way, I certainly appreciate your responsiveness.

    Thanks,

    Mark
  • Daniel JalkutDaniel Jalkut
    I'm glad the answer helped you out as well. I definitely hope to include this as a standard functionality as some point.
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