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Is there anyway when posting and adding URL's to use the highlighted text as the title of the link?

Kind of how it does for bold, italic.

-Paul

do you mean having titles for links?

like this link? ?

if so then you can use the url tag

[ url=address.com]Text [ /url]

Yes, but I want to use any highlighted text in the post as the url. Highlight some text and hit bold to see what I mean.

I don't understand you... o_O;

If you have highlighted text in your reply and you hit bold, underline, color, font - any of those - it will put the tags AROUND the highlighted text.

I want it to do this:
Highlight a word in a post/reply
Hit the URL button
Prompt comes up for the URL ONLY (or the title is pre-filled in with whatever I highlighted
[ url=http://www.url.com]highlighted text would be here[/url ]

URLs without the [url] tag: ex: http://www.test.com will become hyperlinks on their own, so it's pointless to have a button that will do that.

I think the solution might be in codebuttons.js

function insertHyperlink() {
	var url = prompt("Please enter the URL of the website.", "http://");
	if(url) {


		var urltitle = prompt("If you wish to, you may also insert a title to be shown instead of the URL.", "[color=red]SELECTED TEXT WOULD GO HERE[/color]");


		if(urltitle) {
			doInsert("[url="+url+"]"+urltitle+"[/url]", "", false);

		} else {
			doInsert("[url]"+url+"[/url]", "", false);
		}
	} else {
		alert("Error!\n\nYou did not enter a URL for the website. Please try again.");
	}
}

I just have no idea how to put the selected/highlighted text in a variable to use in that JavaScript.