Make the selected item not look like text

Created on 17 August 2017, over 7 years ago
Updated 9 May 2024, 10 months ago

Problem/Motivation

The selected item looks like plain text. As a result, users would not expect that this leads to a semantic link relationship.
The display is even worse than entity references, where the target is additionally identified via its id.
For instance Project: "Linkit - Enriched linking experience (719864)"

Proposed resolution

Linkit should additionally put some indicator to the field (could be some additional indentation left, with some link icon prepended)
Or it could be some label outline (like select2) that indicates it's a concept / item selected and not just text in a field.

Remaining tasks

User interface changes

✨ Feature request
Status

Closed: won't fix

Version

5.0

Component

Code

Created by

πŸ‡¨πŸ‡­Switzerland miro_dietiker Switzerland

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  • πŸ‡ΊπŸ‡ΈUnited States mark_fullmer Tucson

    For some time now, as indicated by the Linkit project page β†’ , the 8.x-5.x branch of Linkit is not undergoing active development. It is also only compatible with unsupported versions of Drupal core (Drupal 8 and Drupal 9).

    To help the maintainers of the Linkit module better steward tasks under active development, I'm going to mark this issue as closed (wontfix). Sites using 8.x-5.x can certainly continue to do so, but should make plans for updating to the latest supported version of Linkit.

    Even better: Drupal core will soon provide link autocomplete suggestions in CKEditor similar to what this module does. Sites using or considering using Linkit should follow this core issue ✨ Drastically improve Drupal's default linking experience in text fields Needs work to evaluate whether they can use the core solution instead of Linkit. See feature differences below to compare what Linkit includes that will not initially be in Drupal core.

    If this issue relates to a problem or feature request that is applicable to the latest supported version of Linkit, please create a new issue, associated with that branch, describing the bug or enhancement.

    For participation and information in Linkit's roadmap, see 🌱 LinkIt Release Roadmap and Issue Prioritization Active .

    Thanks, community, for you collaboration and consideration!

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