I have never been able to find a way to get to the actual link that it
copied, only the text part. The only workaround I ever found was to
copy the link to notepad which loses the tag portion of the copy, change
it there, then copy it to AIM or email client.
Marshall
M. G. Devour wrote:
Dear Marshall,
You write:
The biggest problem I have with
links is that I will copy the text of a link to say an AIM window,
then change the link before I send it. The receiver than gets a link
that says what I want it to say, and do, but if he clicks on it, goes
to the old address before I copied it. I am not sure if Thunderbird
does that as well or not.
I bet what's happening is you're changing only the visible label text
but not the actual URL in the link... Let's see if I can illustrate
that without it being interpreted as code:
A hyperlink in HTML consists of
'<a (the actual link) > label text </a>' ...
Example:
<a href="http://www.silverlist.org";>Silver List web site!</a>
Now, I don't know if your e-mail program is going to try to render the
above example as a link or show you the code behind the link, but the
actual address included in the first <a ...> part is
http://www.silverlist.org, while the text describing the link is
"Silver List web site." The latter is what shows on a web page, the
former is where the link sends you when you click on it.
It's not uncommon to just repeat the address for both parts, in which
case, if you change the visible part and leave the actual address
alone, you get the behavior you're talking about.
I don't know how you can get under the surface to get to the code in an
AIM window or what have you, but that seems to be the root of the
problem.
Be well,
Mike D.
[Mike Devour, Citizen, Patriot, Libertarian]
[mdev...@eskimo.com ]
[Speaking only for myself... ]
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