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Bug 2147 - External link alt title text is the URL, rather than the link title.
External link alt title text is the URL, rather than the link title.
Status: RESOLVED FIXED
Product: MediaWiki
Classification: Unclassified
Parser (Other open bugs)
1.4.x
PC Linux
: Normal normal (vote)
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Assigned To: Nobody - You can work on this!
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Reported: 2005-05-11 05:17 UTC by Olathe
Modified: 2013-06-17 06:58 UTC (History)
4 users (show)

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Description Olathe 2005-05-11 05:17:29 UTC
[http://www.yahoo.com Yahoo] shows in the alt text as Title: http://www.yahoo.com/; Address: http://www.yahoo.com.  
The Title text should be simply Yahoo, as that is the wiki markup link title.
Comment 1 Brion Vibber 2005-05-12 08:16:33 UTC
The title attribute shows the destination of the link, not the link text, *becase* the link text is 
shown inline and the destination is not. If it just mirrored the link text, there wouldn't be any 
point.
Comment 2 Olathe 2005-05-15 05:04:43 UTC
Perhaps the best option is to just delete the "Title:" line for external weblinks.  If duplicating the inline text has no point, then there is 
certainly no point in duplicating the "Address:" line right below it and improperly naming it "Title:".
Comment 3 Brion Vibber 2005-05-15 05:05:32 UTC

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 542 ***
Comment 4 Ilmari Karonen 2011-03-08 16:14:46 UTC
Reopening, since the fix for bug 524 in r76127 doesn't seem to address this case.
Comment 5 Mark A. Hershberger 2011-04-08 00:50:47 UTC
(In reply to comment #4)
> Reopening, since the fix for bug 524 in r76127 doesn't seem to address this
> case.


[http://www.yahoo.com/ Yahoo] produces <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.yahoo.com/">Yahoo</a>

No alt text at all.

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