[pmwiki-users] 'title' attribute of an HTML link

[Patrick R. Michaud]

On Wed, Jan 11, 2006 at 11:46:00AM +0100, Jean Demartini wrote:
> As all know, the 'title' attribute of an HTML link gives a bubble when 
> the mouse is moved over the link. How to define the 'title' attribute of 
> the HTML link associated to a PmWiki link ?
> 
> A way similar to the way used to define the 'target' attribute could be 
> great !

PmWiki already reserves the use of double-quotes to be able to
set the title= attribute for links, as in

    http://www.pmichaud.com/toast"Strawberry Pop-Tart Blow Torches"

This is already done for images, but the feature has never really
been fleshed out for links.  Also, somehow using WikiStyles for
title= attributes has never felt quite right to me.

One can currently get a close approximation by doing

  $UrlLinkFmt =
    "<a class='urllink' href='\$LinkUrl' rel='nofollow'
       title='\$LinkAlt'>\$LinkText</a>";

and then doing

   [[http://www.pmichaud.com/toast("Strawberry Pop-Tart Blow Torches")]]

See http://www.pmwiki.org/wiki/Test/LinkTitle.  The double-brackets
and parens are necessary here to prevent the quoted text from
being displayed as part of the link text.  Ideally I suppose that
we should fix bare links like

    http://www.pmichaud.com/toast"Pop Tarts"

to automatically suppress the display of the quoted title attribute,
so that we get

    <a class='urllink' href='http://www.pmichaud.com/toast' 
       title='Pop Tarts'>http://www.pmichaud.com/toast</a>

and not

    <a class='urllink' href='http://www.pmichaud.com/toast' 
       title='Pop Tarts'>http://www.pmichaud.com/toast"Pop Tarts"</a>

Comments welcome.  

Pm