Bump!

Any thoughts on this anyone?

I'm sorry James, but you need to elaborate the issue you have, screenshot would be great, as it is hard to understand what you're trying to accomplish. 

Just noticed it does the same thing here too, so perhaps its a problem with oxwall. Follow these steps;

1. Type some text

2. Highlight a word that you want to turn in to a hyperlink

3. Click the "Insert Link" button

4. Notice that the word you typed previously has not been copied to the "Text to display:" or "Label" field on the "Insert Link" box, meaning that you have to re-type it.

When one highlights a word, one expects any subsequent action to be applied to it. This does not happen when inserting a hyperlink in oxwall. I'm sure it's just a bug that needs fixing.

That's no good, like I said, users expect the highlighted text to be used as the text they want to add the hyperlink to. Every other content management system does it properly, from MediaWiki to Wordpress. Like I have said before, if oxwall wants to survive, it's just got to get these fundamental functionality in place.

You can make a suggestion on uservoice: http://oxwall.uservoice.com/forums/13756-ideas-for-oxwall

if it gets enough voices, we'll consider implementing it.

In the meantime this is considered as a custom code modification, you need to do that on your own or hire a programmer: http://www.oxwall.org/market/specialists

I will move this post to the custom code modification section, probably some community member will assist you to achieve that. 

Topic was moved from General Questions.

I agree, It's not intuitive.  Users do tend to expect that the highlighted text will appear in the box.

I agree with Matt; this is yet another fundamental bit of functionality that should be in the Oxwall core as standard, not a custom code modification or something that should wait for uservoice. I say again, if Oxwall wants to survive, it must get the basics in place.