Thread:VisualEditor/Feedback/External links/reply (17)

Tested this again, for the first time since long, but this doesn't work like I at least would expect it.

First I added an external link: I expected a single set of square brackets to be added around it, but in itself, it isn't wrong.

Nxt I wanted to add a text to the link, so that people don't see the ugly link ut a nice text instead:. This went totally wrong, with the text being added before instead of after the url, and being interpreted as an internal wikilink instead of an external link. Strangely, when I open it, the link is indicated as an "external link", and I see no way to achieve the wanted result instead of what I got now. Completely not intuitive.

This (added the oldfashioned way) is what I really wanted to achieve. It probably is possible in VE, but it clearly isn't easy (or at least, it is very easy to mess up, and hard to correct again in that case).