Use 'title' attribute in links

[daniel]

We should make use of the title attribute for links, providing useful information and hints in the popup text.

[daniel]

See also: #664

[Christopher Lenz]

So now we have titles/tooltips for all kinds of TracLinks, what other kind of titles should we support? I think we should either clarify the scope of this request, or close it.

[utopiste]

seem a duplicate of #664

[mathieu.trocme@…]

I don't think this is a duplicate. For me it refers to any links, not only tickets. In this regard, this feature seems to be already available for the wiki markup "wiki:". Compare the link "WikiCreole" on the 2 following pages: ​http://trac.edgewall.org/wiki/TracLinks and ​http://trac.edgewall.org/wiki/WikiCreole. In the first case, the corresponding html title attribute is set, in the second, it is not. So the mechanism already exists. I could not figure out which one though :-( (looking at Trac-0.12.3/trac/wiki/formatter.py) So could you please first tell me what is it? (something like [wiki:MyWikiPage?MyParameter="my title"] ?) Then, if not implemented, extend this mechanism to any types of links, especially external links.

Cheers, Mathieu

[Mikael Relbe]

The first one is an InterTrac link, [trac:WikiCreole], that's why the title attribute is set here. The second one is an ordinary URL.

[Christian Boos]

The [[span()]] macro could be used to achieve this, like we did on the WikiStart page:

[[span(TracProject,title=Learn more about the project)]],
'''[[span(HowToContribute,title=Practical tips for providing useful contributions)]]''',
[[span(TracTeam,title=It's their fault - well not really)]],
[[span(TracDev,title=Dive into the internals of Trac)]]

which renders as:

TracProject, HowToContribute, TracTeam, TracDev

The title attribute is for the surrounding <span> rather than for the <a> itself, but the result is the same for the user.

[mathieu.trocme@…]

Thx Christian. It also works with external links :-) [[span(http://trac.edgewall.org,title=Learn more about the Trac project)]] However I don't manage to display the link as a descriptive title like in [http://www.edgewall.com Edgewall Software] Could you please tell me how to proceed? Cheers, Mathieu

[Christian Boos]

Well, the same way:

[[span([http://www.edgewall.com Edgewall Software],title=What a nice (virtual) place!)]]

​Edgewall Software

Note however that the Wiki parser is not smart enough to cope with [[ ... ]] embeddings, so the above wouldn't work with the WikiCreole link [[http://www.edgewall.com|Edgewall Software]].

[anonymous]

Stupid me! Thanks again :-) M